Another Tale of Two Cities: Lviv and Łódź

Abstract

This chapter explores the cinematic image of Lviv and Łódź in wide range of documentary films. It also offers comparisons between fictional and factual films of these places. The chapter also explores physical remnants of the past in the form of buildings which were occupied by Jewish schools, hospitals or homes, and on the role played by these places and ruins in the processes of memorialisation enacted in film.