I was up at Makor to see award-winning Polish documentary maker Slawomir Grunberg’s heart-wrenching documentary “The Legacy of Jedwabne,” for which I also provided the music (and am actually interviewed in, as a participant in the memorial ceremonies held in Poland in 2001 in which the Polish government officially apologized to the Jewish surviving family members—of which I am one—for the hideous pogrom which took place in this little Polish town in 1941).

Slawomir is a lovely and charismatic man who coaxed me to play my acoustic guitar after the memorial ceremony in the old Jedwabne graveyard, not far from where 2,000 Jews were incinerated in a barn. It was cold and raining and I stumbled through the haunted landscape playing with tears in my eyes… it was a very heavy, emotionally draining day. To see his film on the big screen brought tears to my eyes again… and I do not cry very easily.