Leopold Kozłowski
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Biography
Leopold Kozłowski-Kleinman (November 26, 1918 – May 12, 2019) was a Polish composer, conductor and pianist. He was an artistic director of The Jewish Theatre in Warsaw as well as the Gypsy group Roma. He worked as a musical consultant for the folk group Rzeszowiacy. He founded The Dance and Song Group of the Krakow’s military district. In Poland Kozłowski was referred to as ‛The Last Klezmer Of Galicia’.
Known For
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Schindler's List
During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment.
Austeria
Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling ( Kyra Sedgwick ) and German soldiers' repeated attempts to kill him, is a tale of how young kids in the Warsaw ghetto devise their own method of fighting oppression.
War and Love
This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
And the Violins Stopped Playing
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Ostatni klezmer
During World War II, Jewish artists fight for survival through music, theater and film creativity.
Kabaret śmierci
Years after the Holocaust, survivor Leopold Kozlowski lives in Poland, and is one of the few remaining experts in the Klezmer tradition of music, one played predominantly by the Eastern European Jewish community. Director Yael Strom follows Kozlowski as he travels back to his village in the Ukraine, where he visits his father's grave and speaks about his relatives who perished in the Holocaust. Strom honors Kozlowski's life as a teacher, musician and survivor.