My Friend the Enemy
19 March 2015, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Event Information
Location
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Room 433, Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ SSEES Building, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
Screening of documentary film on survivors of the Volhynia massacres of 1943
Q and A with director Wanda Koscia
Introduction by Dr Olesya Khromeychuk (Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾-SSEES)
Summer 2013, Volhynia, Western Ukraine. Polish survivors of a massacre by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943 return to the lands from which they fled. Â
The survivors recount stories of horrific slaughter and of how some Ukrainians risked their lives to save their Polish neighbours. This ground-breaking documentary film opens up a period in history that has been neglected in western narratives of World War II, and which remains a point of sharp political division between Ukraine and Poland today. At the same time, the film retains a powerful focus on the human dimension of this tragedy, examining questions of memory, displacement and trauma.Â