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Oral history interview with Agnieszka Holland

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2012.6 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0650

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    Oral history interview with Agnieszka Holland

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Agnieszka Holland, born November 28, 1948 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses her parents Henryk Holland (b. 1920) and Irena Rybczynska (b. 1914); her parents’ extended family members who perished or were in hiding during the war; how she found out that she was a Jew; her mother’s work in the Polish underground during the war; growing up in Warsaw in the 1950s; different people’s memories of the war; reactions to the Communist Party and Stalin’s death; her father’s death in 1961; how she became interested in filmmaking; her decision to attend film school in Prague, Czech Republic; exploring Catholicism and her religious identity; making the film Angry Harvest abroad during the imposition of martial law in Poland; her interest in Janusz Korczak, director of Jewish and Polish orphanages before and during the war; her work as a film director; her intent to make films about the complexity of human experience; her surprise with the great success of her film, In Darkness, in Poland; and negative reactions to her films among right-wing groups in Poland and Russia.
    Interviewee
    Agnieszka Holland
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2012 January 18
    Geography
    creation: Washington (D.C.)
    Credit Line
    Interview funded by a grant from the Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, Program Coordinator for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Agnieszka Holland in Washington, DC on January 18, 2012.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:04:05
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