Are there any family roots, from either side, in Munkacz, Robert? Or is this just a random sampling video?

Wish something like that (or even photos)still remained from my father's hometown in Poland...

Pearl:

No family at all. My people are hard-core Misnagdim from my father's side. But from Kare's side they are Radzine Hasidim. But I have very warm feelings towards the Munkatch Hasidim. Their Rebbe was a very great man. And these video clips, well, they are so very human.

My father is Hungarian, and I grew up hearing Hungarian, not Yiddish. (I still speak Hungarian, allowing me to gleefully shock people in Borough Park.) Because of the postwar border-moving, Munkacs is now in Ukraine, not Hungary--my family was in Budapest, a very different world. I still have family there, lived there for a time, and it's even more eerie when you see the houses and stores in the background and realise that that place is really real, that it doesn't look much different today.

I viewed the video again and it truly is tragic and sad that most of these people were probably wiped off the face of the earth during the Holocaust. Like the images of Roman Vishniac's camera capturing "A Vanished World," these are equally haunting.
It's the segment with the singing of "Hatikvah" that most melts my heart and brings me to tears.

I just viewed the Munkatch video. I've never seen a film, from Munkatch, like that. Tears sprouted to my eyes as I watched the children singing a version of Hatikvah in 1933, and the "rikudei am" and the Rebbe's brocha at the wedding. Thank you for sharing such a poignant emotional peice of history. It was very emotional.

Sharon:

Your very welcome. I too was deeply moved by this footage and have shown it to as many people as I can.

Thanks for sharing this Robert. I was deeply moved by this footage - I found it more emotional than actual Holocaust film, because of the "ordinary" hope of everyday life - this is what it is and this is what it will always be - most of us assume this, I believe. How naive we are! Thanks again.

Chana:

I agree, there is something incredibly moving about this ordinary fim. And you are right, in a way, it touches chords that Holocaust footage fails to touch. Perhaps because it reveals the common life that was forever lost.

I am searching for persons who new a Holocaust survivor from Munkatch who was with me and my father hiding in Warsaw, Poland from september 1944 until january 1945.
This was after the surrender of the polish underground uprise in the old city of Warsaw.
I only remember his first name was Aaron and that from my father told me, he was a lawyer.
At that time I was a child (I was born in 1935) and my dear father Lejzor Krygier past away in 1985. I remember that my father told me that Aaron emigrated to USA.
I live in Paris, France and can be reached by phone at +33 1 608627095.
Thank you for your help.
I you have any idea where I should post also this message I would greatly appreciate.
Shana Tova