XI: THOU SHALT NOT BE INDIFFERENT

Village East By Angelika
189 Second Avenue, New York City
November 20 - 26, 2026
Multiple Daily Screenings

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XI: THOU SHALT NOT BE INDIFFERENT

What happens when ordinary people become indifferent?

XI: THOU SHALT NOT BE INDIFFERENT

preserves Marian Turski’s final message
— in the centennial year of his birth.

Through Turski’s testimony and director Andrzej Wolf’s powerful visual language, the film examines how prejudice, exclusion, distortion of truth and the erosion of another person’s dignity can become normalized — and how ordinary people can allow those forces to grow.

Turski’s Holocaust experience is fundamental to his story, but the message he carried from it reaches far beyond. Rather than simply looking backward, the film considers the individual choices that shape the world around us. Rather than equating contemporary events with the Holocaust, the filmmakers examine the recurring patterns through which prejudice, cruelty and exclusion become accepted.

Ultimately, it is a film about community, freedom and equality
 — and the courage to overcome fear in the face of injustice. As the filmmakers put it: “Our response to what happens to others is part of the history we are creating ourselves.”
 

The film draws on the extraordinary visual record made as Allied forces reached the Nazi concentration camps in 1945 — footage shot by British, American and Soviet cameramen as evidence and as a permanent historical record. The archival material, created in cooperation with U.S. and British authorities, includes footage by renowned filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder and Frank Capra. It raises a central question: how can new generations understand the consequences of persecution and dehumanization if the evidence becomes distant or abstract?

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Marian Turski

He survived the Łódź Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Theresienstadt and two death marches. Yet Marian Turski emerged from humanity's darkest chapter with a message that would challenge the world.

How do educated, cultured societies descend into hatred, persecution and mass murder? And when does indifference become complicity?

In XI: THOU SHALT NOT BE INDIFFERENT,

Turski confronts these questions with remarkable clarity, revealing how prejudice, exclusion and the erosion of human dignity can lead to unimaginable consequences.

In 1965, he joined the historic Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., carrying the lessons of the Holocaust into a lifelong commitment to justice and equality.

His extraordinary humanitarian contributions earned him prestigious international honors, including Poland's Order of Polonia Restituta
 and France's Légion d'honneur .

His influence reached world leaders, including President Barack Obama, who personally sent greetings honoring Turski on his 90th birthday.

Through intimate testimony and rare, real-life archival footage documenting the liberation of Nazi concentration camps in 1945, including historical film material by legendary filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder and Frank Capra, director and cinematographer Andrzej Wolf brings history vividly to life.

The documentary pays tribute to one of the last moral compasses of the Greatest Generation.

The phrase "Thou shalt not be indifferent"
is known as the Eleventh Commandment, famously articulated by Auschwitz survivor, historian, and journalist Marian Tursk

Turski emphasized that people must not remain indifferent to:
Lies and historical distortion
The political manipulation of the past
Discrimination against any minority
Infringements on social contracts by governments
 

Marian Turski

deliver his historic address on
 the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz:

Click the Picture above or the link below to view the Video

https://youtu.be/ASSQg2mG8dI?si=_SUXL7NeoALiob9C

The phrase "Thou shalt not be indifferent"

is known as the Eleventh Commandment, famously articulated by Auschwitz survivor, historian, and journalist Marian Tursk

Turski emphasized that people must not remain indifferent to:
Lies and historical distortion
The political manipulation of the past
Discrimination against any minority
Infringements on social contracts by governments

Tribute

 Mr. Marian Turski,

the world-renowned historian, journalist, and until his recent passing, president of the International Auschwitz Committee, takes us back to the roots of evil. A survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Theresienstadt death camps in his youth, Turski explains with firsthand knowledge and surgical precision how otherwise well-educated and cultured people can, under certain circumstances, turn into criminals and mass murderers. He reminds us about the painful past, explains the present, and warns about the future. His dramatic plea, "do not be indifferent!" remains more relevant now than ever. Andrzej Wolf, the director and cinematographer of this film, pays a loving tribute to one of the last moral compasses of
the Greatest Generation.
—Andrzej Krakowski

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