"Hotel Polski", a film that includes the testimony of Holocaust survivors who hid in the "Polski" Hotel in Warsaw, regarding their experiences in Warsaw and in Vittel, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz camps during 1943-1945

"Hotel Polski", a film that includes the testimony of Holocaust survivors who hid in the "Polski" Hotel in Warsaw, regarding their experiences in Warsaw and in Vittel, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz camps during 1943-1945 Gitla Eisenzweig and Elias Itzkhak Sternbuch (a Swiss citizen) meet before the war; Gitla's life in the Warsaw Ghetto; issuing of a South American document for Gitla with help from Elias; transfer to France and life in a detention camp in Vittel; cooperation between the Sternbuch family and the authorities for the rescue of Jews with help in the issuing of South American documents for Jewish members of the intelligentsia in the Warsaw Ghetto and their children; halting of the certificates sent to the ghetto, by the Gestapo and by Jewish collaborators in 1943 (most of the addressees were already not alive); sale of the certificates to Jews by the collaborators in order to remove the Jews from their hiding places and to concentrate them in the "Polski" Hotel; memoirs of Holocaust survivors who stayed in the "Polski" Hotel during spring-summer 1943, where the certificates were sold, and from where they were supposed to depart overseas; removal of the first transport from the hotel on 05 July 1943; they are put onto a Red Cross train; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp (a detention camp that was presented as a transit camp before being sent to France); Bergen-Belsen camp life and living conditions; transport from the hotel on 13 July 1943; transfer of the Jews who remained and were without certificates to the Pawiak prison, and their murder (the corpses were burned); examination of the certificates in Vittel and they were revealed to be forged or purchased (and thus were invalid); cancellation of the certificates by the Embassy of Paraguay in Berlin; deportation of Jews from Vittel; Gitla finds a hiding place during the deportation (she survived); examination of the certificates in Bergen-Belsen camp; transfer of Jews from Bergen-Belsen camp to Auschwitz camp; release of Gitla from the camp; she moves to Switzerland and marries Elias; fate of the Jewish collaborators, during and after the war; Fate of the survivors: Josef Atlasowicz (the submitter of the material) - escaped from Pawiak prison with his father; he was in hiding until the liberation; he made aliya to Eretz Israel after the war; Jerzi Orlowski (in Eretz Israel - Uri Orlev) - survived Auschwitz camp; release in April 1945; he made aliya to Eretz Israel; Gutta Sternbuch (Gitla Eisenzweig - before the war) - she survived; she married Elias Sternbuch after the liberation; residence in Switzerland; Zofia Wunsche - survived and financed a monument to commemorate the Jews who perished in Pawiak (she died in 2009); Janina Kowalska - survived; her family members perished in Pawiak.