Redcurrants (Tam gdzie rosną porzeczki)

During the Second World War 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered. We will never hear them speak again. Those who do speak, those who survived, always tell stories with happy endings.
-Leo Kantor

Leo Kantor, prominent academic and journalist, spent WWII with his mother in Russia. His father fell in the battle outside Kharkov in 1941. He was adopted by a Polish Jew, who with his mother escaped from Germans to Russia. In 1946, after the war, the family went to live in a small town of Strzegom in Lower Silesia, Poland. It was from there that Kantor saw the Germans leave. This was something he would remember forever. He left Poland in 1968, following the anti-Semitic campaign of the communist authorities. He has lived in Sweden since.

After 42 years of exile, Kantor reenacts his story on the stage of the Rozmaitosci Theater in Warsaw. Kantor's performance "addresses us as an unspoken plea to show respect for humans.... Each minute of this film feels true, each word has its beauty and is a force in itself" (Zbigniew Bidakowski, Rzeczypospolita).

In 2007 Leo Kantor received the main prize of the Federation of Swedish Artists for his work in defense of human dignity.