The main battle in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising occurred at Muranowski Square, during which a blue and white flag was raised over the roofs of the fighting Ghetto. The Germans failed to remove it for 4 days. The people responsible of this heroic act were members of the Jewish Military Union (ZZW), a group of fighters of the Beitar youth movement belonging to the revisionist camp. However, their story disappeared from history books and their place in the myth of Jewish heroism during the Holocaust was omitted. The movie tells the story of the Jewish Military Union (ZZW) remained on the floor of history's editing room and is based on the most comprehensive documentation of what happened during the Holocaust - the German documentation. With their systematic methods, they wrote down and documented their murderous acts in real time. That is what the S.S. General, Jurgen Stroop did. Himmler chose him for the task of liquidating the ghetto and exterminating the Jews who still remained in the ghetto after the deportations to Treblinka. His daily reports reveal the real story of the uprising and the major part ZZW took in the battle. The movie depicts Stroop writing the reports while comparison to the testimonies of ZZW survivors. The story of Ziuta's Hartman, the film's main protagonist, is the reflection of the ZZW fighters' story, except that she remained alive. Ziuta was born in Kielce, Poland, and after the German occupation escaped from the ghetto and reached Warsaw. There she met a fellow townsman - Leon Rodal - a senior commander in the Jewish Military Union, who recruited her into the ranks of the Organization. Ziuta smuggled weapons into the Ghetto and performed other tasks, such as transferring funds for the orphanage of Janusz Korczak. During the Uprising itself, Z'uta was placed on one of the roofs in the Brushmakers quarter and saw with her own eyes the flags - both Polish and Zionist - soaring in the skies over the burning Ghetto. After the war she came to Israel and tried to tell the story of her brothers in arms, but nobody was willing to listen. Ziuta's personal struggle for the public recognition is a painful example of how the history of the uprising was written and remembered. The film raises questions about the power to manipulate the historic truth, the complex relations between history and politics, the design of a collective memory and sheds a new light on the most famous symbol of Jewish resistance in World War 2.

—emanuel shechter