Ambassador of Remembrance
Directed by Magdalena Zelasko2024 1h 43mDocumentary
In September 1943, 18-year-old Stanislaw Zalewski was arrested in Warsaw as a member of a Polish resistance group and taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp for forced labor. From there he was sent to Mauthausen and finally to the Gusen camp, where the prisoners had to work for the German war industry under inhumane conditions. For a long time, Stanislaw Zalewski, like many other victims of Nazi terror, remained silent about his painful experiences. He only began speaking about it forty years ago, at events, commemorations and in schools, and he continues to do so today, even at the age of 99. Now, for the first time, as a deeply impressive "ambassador of remembrance", he tells his stirring life story in a film.
