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MAY 2007

The World Was Ours: Mira Jedwabnik Van Doren

By Dr. Pola Rosen

After ten years of painstaking labor, research and travels  to the city of her birth, Mira Van Doren has exquisitely captured the cultural life and the world that was Vilna before it was brutally cut off by the Nazis in World War II. Mira, the daughter of a surgeon and artist, was only ten when she left Vilna, but the memories of childhood friends that never survived and those classmates that surfaced only after being incarcerated in the concentration camps, had a lasting impression. Mira Van Doren has journeyed back in time to a place when Vilna was a cultural mecca, filled with literature, music, theater, books and  an endless variety of cultural choices. She has recaptured her birth city, Vilna, in her documentary “The World Was Ours” dedicated to the memory of Jewish Vilna. It draws on a large collection of video interviews with dozens of survivors and scholars. Excerpts from diaries, letters, poems, newspaper stories, and other contemporary accounts supplement these interviews. Archival photographs and footage visualize the story of this remarkable community.

A voice-over narration by award-winning actor Mandy Patinkin weaves the many elements into a single story. Archival music evokes the spirit of the times and is supplemented by specially recorded performances of Yiddish, Polish, and other music popular in Vilna between the two world wars.

The Vilna Project, Inc. is preparing a book, which will complement the film.  WNET Channel 13 has recently aired this documentary.#

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