Personal Survival
Grynberg and his mother were the only survivors from their family. He spent the years 1942 to 1944 in hiding places. After the war, he lived in Łódź and Warsaw. In the early 1990's Grynberg returned to Poland with film maker Pawel Lozinski. The latter filmed Grynberg as he interviewed people in his native village in search of what happened to his father Abram Grynberg during the war. The documentary was released in 1992 under the name Miejsce urodzenia (Birthplace).
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