peaceful society – has been uprooted, and before this film, only existed in memories. Isolated from urban societies, Luboml was a quaint blend of emerging technology and old fashioned practices. Most citizens lived without refrigerators or running water. "We always had a cow and a garden in front," one survivor reflects. But the citizens didn't think of themselves as primitive. They were proud of the new cinema house and electric lights in the town's streets that went up in the idyllic period before they knew what danger lay ahead. At night, after dinner, all the youths would slip out of their homes to go on long walks together, guided by those electric lights. The documentary suggests that the Jewish population was so full of concern for one another that economics became somewhat irrelevant. When one family didn't have enough money to provide for themselves, neighbors would anonymously donate food. One survivor reflects, "We didn't know if we were rich or poor. Most people were in the same class," while another chuckles, "I could have been poor, but I didn't know it." But Judaism, which had brought the townspeople together, became the reason for their destruction. The seeds of anti-Semitism in Luboml, which had played out in name-calling and child's teasing before the war, morphed into a serious threat. The Nazis entered the peaceful market town in tanks. Fear and helplessness over came the town. One survivor wrote, "Only if one's hands have been amputated can you understand at all what a Polish Jew is going through." A lucky few fled from Poland. The Luboml documentary makes it clear that despite all the time that has passed since its destruction, those survivors who once lived in Luboml still remember their hometown dearly. "Every night, before I fall asleep" mourns one survivor who fled Poland during the war, "I am in Luboml. Still today, I am in Luboml." The documentary serves as a detailed portrait of shtetl life that was destroyed. As one survivor recalls, "It was warm. It was beautiful. It was happy. All that is gone." The documentary film is available in nine segments on YouTube. For a link to the online video and more, visit Luboml: My Hear Remembers at http://www.luboml.org/film.htm Filmmaker's interview Filmmaker Aaron Ziegelman stated the following about his experience of Luboml, his inspiration to make its Jewish history known, and about the making of his documentary: