JEWISH JOURNAL
‘Among Neighbors’: A Dark Secret Hidden in History
Ayala Or-El
October 15, 2025

“Among Neighbors,’” Yoav Potash’s new documentary, tells the story of the small Polish town of Gniewoszów and a dark secret the Polish government has been trying to conceal. The film centers on two people who lived in the town during World War II: Yaacov Goldstein, a Holocaust survivor, and Pelagia Radecka, a Polish woman…This is a lesser-known chapter of history — when some Polish civilians took part in violent acts against Jewish survivors returning home. One of the most well-documented examples is the Kielce pogrom of July 1946, in which 42 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by townspeople, police officers, and soldiers after false rumors spread that Jews had kidnapped a Christian child. READ MORE

View the trailer “Among Neighbors”