The shoebox

Auschwitz, a memory being erased

Revisiting the antisemitism that led to Auschwitz is the only way to understand the one rising today. And sometimes, the path to understanding who we are begins by walking through history — with our children beside us.
A father travels to Poland with his son and daughter, carrying a shoebox filled with fragments of a life erased: Artur, his own father, deported and lost in the Holocaust.
What begins as a family journey becomes an unexpected revelation — a new way of looking at antisemitism, not as a relic of the past but as a pattern repeating itself in silence.
In Kraków, Kazimierz, Auschwitz, and Chrzanów, they confront the traces left behind: empty synagogues turned into folklore, Jewish stories reduced to museum captions, the quiet erosion of memory that shapes today’s fears and hatred.
The Shoebox is the story of a man sharing his past with his children — and discovering, with them, how understanding yesterday is the only way to see clearly what is happening today.
It is a deeply personal journey, a fresh lens on antisemitism, and a reminder that forgetting begins not with denial, but with indifference.