“No One Is Born Righteous”: A TV Movie

Volyn Television, 1994. The television documentary “Righteous People Are Not Born That Way” tells the story of people from Volyn who saved Jews during World War II.

In the video: a delegation of Jews from Israel in Volyn; archival photos; the names of Righteous Among the Nations from Volyn engraved on a wall in Israel; Toviy Rivets playing the violin; monuments, natural landscapes, a map, statistics on the creation of Jewish ghettos, the Luga River, a house, a courtyard; old Jewish graves, a meeting with the Jewish delegation, Jews singing near the monument, crying.

Interviews: Mykola Mykolayovych Vavrysevych, Righteous Among the Nations; residents of Volhynia whose families saved Jews; Jews who survived the war.

The film features archival footage.