The Fox News Rundown Evening Edition: New Documentary Uncovers Post-Holocaust Killing of Jews in Poland
Jan 26, 2026
Yoav Potash, filmmaker who documents post-Holocaust history, discusses his new film Among Friends. He recounts how a cemetery rededication led him to uncover deadly violence against returning Jews in 1944–1947. He covers eyewitness testimony, shifting identities, contested national narratives, and the film’s controversy in Poland.
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Remembrance Day Reveals New Stories
- Holocaust Remembrance Day marks Auschwitz's liberation and symbolizes the scope of the Shoah.
- Yoav Potash stresses survivors' personal stories keep revealing more decades later.
Unexpected Murders After The War
- Yoav Potash went to a Polish shtetl to film a cemetery rededication and talk to elders.
- He learned survivors returning after WWII were sometimes murdered by local Polish residents.
Neighbors Turned Killers
- Elderly Polish residents recalled knowing and later attacking their Jewish neighbors.
- Survivors found it chilling that once-friendly neighbors became killers.