'Among Neighbors': A filmmaker’s journey to uncover a forgotten Holocaust legacy

I’ve seen too much. What do I have to fear now?” – Pelagia Radecka, in ‘Among Neighbors’

The old woman shuffled along the dusty roads of the small town, leaning on her cane. She was followed by a film crew, with cameras rolling, and also by the chief rabbi of Poland and his staff, intent on revealing where bodies were buried. The memories that haunted her belonged to another time, but the silence surrounding them was very much alive.

For award-winning documentarist Yoav Potash, whose previous film Crime After Crime had premiered at Sundance and earned over a dozen awards, this moment, seemingly simple yet unbearably charged, became the turning point of a project he hadn’t intended to begin.

In 2014, he arrived in Poland to document a modest ceremony in a forgotten town. But what he left with was a profound mystery; a story that would take nearly a decade to unravel, a story of post-war violence.

The result is Among Neighbors, a documentary that unfurls like a whisper, gradually swelling into a powerful reckoning. What began with the rededication of a Jewish cemetery, in the small shtetl of Gniewoszów, evolved in...
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