Film

We Weren't The Only Ones

Name: We Weren't The Only Ones
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-01-22

2020 · Documentary

A mother’s tragic experiences of war and loss, carried forward by her son.

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Overview

In this short film, poet and holocaust survivor John Guzlowski bears witness to his parents’ survival of Nazi slave labor camps. More than a personal remembrance, the poem carries his mother’s plea — “tell them we weren’t the only ones” — a call to acknowledge the countless lives scarred by war, displacement, and silence. Through Guzlowski’s measured reading, the film becomes both intimate and collective: a meditation on inherited trauma, the duty of memory, and the fragile line between history and forgetting.