The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has become a symbol of heroism throughout the world, but it's generally accepted story is incomplete. Among the fighters was a group that was not granted commemoration, although it was responsible for the uprising major battle.

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

On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, German forces entered the Warsaw ghetto equipped with tanks, flame throwers, and machine guns. Against them stood an army of a few hundred young Jewish men and women, armed with pistols and Molotov cocktails. Who were these Jewish fighters who dared oppose the armed might of the SS troops under the command of SS General Juergen Stroop? Who commanded them in battle? What were their goals? The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has become a symbol of heroism throughout the world. Despite that, the generally accepted account of the Uprising is incomplete. The truth is that among the uprising fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a group that was not granted commemoration. This group, the Jewish Military Union (ZZW), which was better armed than other groups fighting in the rest of the Ghetto, was responsible for the major and the stubbornest battles of the Uprising. However, the story of those fighters disappeared from history books and their place in the myth of heroism during the Holocaust was omitted. How did it happen? Were political and ideological reasons behind the disappearance of the ZZW from the history?

Ziuta Rutenberg Hartman is featured in this film. She was one of the last surviving participants of the Uprising and the last known fighter of the ZZW. After the collapse of the uprising, she was captured by the Germans and sent first to Majdanek and then to Skarzysko Kamienna. Later still, she was a forced laborer at a Leipzig ammunition factory. At war's end, she returned to Poland, but soon left for France. She immigrated to Israel in 1952. She was born in Kielce in 1922 and escaped from there to Warsaw. A chance meeting with a Kielce friend, Avraham Rodal (younger brother of a ZZW commander, Leon Rodal), led her to join the resistance. Years later, she recounted that because of her "Aryan" appearance, she was used as a courier between the ghetto and Aryan side, smuggling guns, food and medicines in a false-bottomed bucket. In 2010, she was named an honorary citizen of Warsaw. When she left Poland, she vowed never to return. She did not go to Warsaw to collect her award. "I think I'm the last one left alive now," she told the Israeli press. Asked why she agreed to receive the honor, she said "I'm accepting it on behalf of those who perished."—renestar