February 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
2025 ∙ Documentary ∙ 100 minutes ∙ English, Polish ∙ Yoav Potash
Combining magical realism and evocative hand-drawn animation with revelatory interviews and verité footage, this stunning documentary examines the story of a small, rural town where Jews and Polish Catholics lived side by side for centuries before World War II. The film brings the Polish response to the Holocaust to life through the last living eyewitnesses, revealing both love and betrayal as it zeroes in on one of the last living Holocaust survivors from the town, and an aging eyewitness who saw Jews murdered there — not by Nazis, but by her own Polish neighbors.
CONTENT WARNING: antisemitism, graphic content, violence
Presenting Partner: Jewish Federation of Cincinnati – Jewish Community Relations Council
Additional partnership support from The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center
NEWLY ADDED SPECIAL FEATURE
Join us for an in-person post-film discussion with Yoav Potash, Director/Producer of Among Neighbors.
Yoav Potash is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. He produced and directed the Sundance premiere documentary Crime After Crime, a New York Times Critics’ Pick and winner of 25 honors, including a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award, and six audience awards. The documentary had a national primetime broadcast on the Oprah Winfrey Network, streamed on Netflix, and is now available on Amazon Prime. The film helped spark movements to change domestic violence law in multiple US states. Yoav also directed the San Francisco IndieFest Jury Prize-winning documentary Food Stamped, which was nationally broadcast on Pivot, Participant Media’s cable/satellite network. Yoav is an alumnus of UC Berkeley, where he received the university’s top prize in creative writing.
The Mayerson JCC Jewish & Israeli Film Festival presents a diverse, inspiring lineup of award-winning films and engaging, educational programming that connects to Jewish and Israeli stories. To see the whole 2026 lineup, click here.
