Spark Among the Ashes

A documentary film. Cracow’s handful of Jews, survivors of one of the largest Jewish communities prior to World War II, were eager to participate in the first bar mitzvah in their synagogues since the War. This New York Times headline Jews of Cracow Await US Bar Mitzvah Boy, caught the eye of Eric Strom, a 13-year-old Connecticut boy“. Eric and his family went to Poland. a woman rabbi faced a storm of controversy over religious traditions and modernity; a holocaust-devastated Jewish community reflects on its past, present and future, and the conflict between orthodox and contemporary religious movements.