{"id":1500,"date":"2016-10-23T18:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T18:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2016-10-23T18:47:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T18:47:45","slug":"warsaw-ghettos-secret-archive-goes-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/2016\/10\/23\/warsaw-ghettos-secret-archive-goes-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Warsaw Ghetto&#8217;s Secret Archive Goes Hollywood&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/files\/2016\/10\/thumbnail_Serena-and-Sam-on-set-11-e1470006635646-965x543.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/files\/2016\/10\/thumbnail_Serena-and-Sam-on-set-11-e1470006635646-965x543.jpg\" alt=\"thumbnail_Serena-and-Sam-on-set-11-e1470006635646-965x543\" width=\"965\" height=\"543\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/files\/2016\/10\/thumbnail_Serena-and-Sam-on-set-11-e1470006635646-965x543.jpg 965w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/files\/2016\/10\/thumbnail_Serena-and-Sam-on-set-11-e1470006635646-965x543-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/files\/2016\/10\/thumbnail_Serena-and-Sam-on-set-11-e1470006635646-965x543-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/files\/2016\/10\/thumbnail_Serena-and-Sam-on-set-11-e1470006635646-965x543-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the time Serena Kassow appeared in a film about the Warsaw ghetto\u2019s secret archive, she had heard about \u201cthe most important untold story of the Holocaust\u201d for the better part of her life. As the daughter of Holocaust historian Samuel Kassow, the 21 year old grew up watching her father collect stories from local survivors in Connecticut, particularly those from Poland. Years of learning culminated in May, when Kassow joined her father on the set of \u201cWho Will Write Our History?\u201d a documentary based on his book about the Warsaw ghetto\u2019s \u201cOneg Shabbat\u201d archive. The day after receiving her theater studies degree from Boston\u2019s Emerson College, Kassow flew to Poland for what she called \u201can incredibly personal month.\u201d Having heard she was a theater student, the film\u2019s producers cast Kassow as a featured extra. On ghetto sets in Warsaw and Lodz, she portrayed a typist preparing reports for the clandestine archive, from which 25,000 documents have come down to history.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Read entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/warsaw-ghettos-secret-archive-goes-hollywood\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By the time Serena Kassow appeared in a film about the Warsaw ghetto\u2019s secret archive, she had heard about \u201cthe most important untold story of the Holocaust\u201d for the better part of her life. As the daughter of Holocaust historian Samuel Kassow, the 21 year old grew up watching her father collect stories from local &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/2016\/10\/23\/warsaw-ghettos-secret-archive-goes-hollywood\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}