Nana 2016

     Serena Dykman is the granddaughter of Maryla Michalowski-Dyamant.  Serena filmed this movie about her grandmother’s survival in Auschwitz.  Maryla doesn’t know why she was able to live and others were not?  Her name and tattoo number were on the gas chamber list twice but somehow they were removed?  Random events allowed to survive?  Not because she was smarter or braver than anyone else!  She spent the rest of her life fighting against intolerance and the Holocaust deniers.  She wanted new generations to know what happened and pass this information on to the next generation.  She worried that the events of the Holocaust could be repeated.  Alice Michalowski is also in the film and she is Serena’s mother.

    This is a powerful movie and Maryla doesn’t shy away from any of the facts from her experiences in the concentration camp.  Her daughter and granddaughter have heard this information before.   It’s still difficult for them to hear and process these details during filming.  Maryla was extremely fortunate to live and she her daughter and granddaughter grow to be adults.  Maryal was born in 1920 and she died in 2003.  4* (I really liked this movie)  

  

100 min Doc directed by Serena Dykman with Maryla Michalowski-Dyamant, Alice Michalowski.

Note:  Imdb 7 out of 10, 60% critic on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4* out of 5* with 1 review, Slant Magazine 2 ½* out of 4*,

Special Note:  Filmed in Brussels, Belgium; Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolski, Poland; Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland; Bedzin, Slaskie, Poland.