Promised Lands. A biography of Vera Lechtman - an esseay
Author: Abigail Liebman
Production: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, 2008
Artistic supervision: Viola Wein, Mateusz Werner

This is a journey into the unique life story of Vera Lechtman and her family, in search of the „Promised Land” . Like many other Jews in the 20th century, she had to choose from among different paths – each one promising a new life, leading to a different utopia. Some chose Zionism, some communism, while others preferred liberalism. In the Lechtman family, all roads were taken. All routes were traveled and a high price was paid. The events of 1968 served as a turning point that would challenge the very grounds of the kind of a life they had known so far, forcing them to choose different paths. Yet, surprisingly, they were able to keep in connection with their past roads and integrate them with their new lives. „Sometimes a person has to pave his own path, even when it means traveling far away from expected routes, or coming back to the point of departure.”