Siostrzyczka (Little sister) - film dokumentalny

People who lived near KL Auschwitz suffered a lot. From among 28 thousands of the citizens of Oświęcim region about 17 thousands were deprived of their property and brutally expulsed from their houses. In Brzezinka only 9 from 500 houses weren't destroyed. In Pławy and Harmęże 90 percent of the buildings were torn down. From almost 3000 houses 2200 were destroyed. The materials from the torn down houses were used by Germans for the enlargement of the camp.

Only few from eight thousands Oświęcim Jews survived the war. Polish citizens were abducted to provide a forced labour, sent to concentration camps and to exile. Those who stayed in the town were terrorized. However, they weren't only passive witnesses of the tragedy. They gratuitously helped the KL Auschwitz prisoners risking their own life. Almost 180 people got arrested, more than 60 of them died in Auschwitz or other concentration camps.

Among those who helped was Kazimiera Krzak from Oświęcim, among those who were helped -- Lusia Kałuszyner, the prisoner of KL Auschwitz. Their reunion is the main thread of this movie. The camera records "live" emotions of these events. It shows the people who once more, after many years, want to see the places of nazi terror in the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and the places in the town of Oświęcim, especially important for those people -- Gabriela Mruszczak, scriptwriter and producer of the film says. The destinies of those people crossed many years ago but the ties that have been established in the past are still very vivid.

Kazimiera is bed-ridden. She lives in the Seraphic Sisters rest-home in Oświęcim, the very same place where during the German occupation the help for the camp prisoners was organized. One day a young nun sits by her bedside and ask her to tell about her life.

Kazimiera who lived in Oświęcim, was sent to Auschwitz when she was 15. She was accused of a sabotage, because she lost her german permit. Toward the end of the war, she was quarantinned and because of that she escaped the Death March. When the Russians came, she could go back to her home. But all the time before her eyes she had those poor, helpless children. On January 28th 1945 she came to the camp with her neighbour and her son. In the Gypsy Family Camp they found children together with terrified blockmistress. She saw a six-year-old girl who spoke Polish -- it was Lusia Kałuszner who was Jewish. They took her home with them. After few months the girl was found by her mother, who miraculously survived the war. She took Lusia to Łódź and then to Israel. Many years later Lusia came to Oświęcim with the youth group and found her carer.