HORODOK: A SHTETL'S STORY 1920-1945

This is the story of vibrant life in an Eastern European Jewish village, before WWII, told by partisan-survivors, who moved to Israel after the war. Horodok was in Poland prior to 1939; then in Russia; invaded by the Nazi's in 1941; and included into Belarus after the war. Horodok is located north of Minsk in the triangle between Rakov, Radishkovitz and Moladechna. The film covers the shtetl's community & religious life; the shtetl economy; Jewish and secular education; the flourishing Zionist youth