Jarmark Europa
Director: Minze Tummescheid, Germany 2004, Multilingual with English subtitels;
"Jarmark Europa" at Warsaw's Dziesieciolecia Stadium, is one of Eastern Europe's largest bazaars and a centre for small trade that doesn't appear on any tax declarations. The traders come from a variety of countries in the former Soviet Union. They transport their goods to Warsaw or other cities west of the ex- USSR in unmistakeable bags.
Lieber Muslim… (Dear Muslim...)
Kerstin Nickig, Cecylja Pacura
Director: Kerstin Nickig, Germany 2005, OmU, 36 min.
Documentation about a Chechen refugee family in Poland.
Together with her husband Said-Selim and her 4-year old son Muslim, Sacita escaped from the terrible Chechen war. Without any vision for their future the family lives in the Polish refugee camp Zajazd Zacisze and waits for the approval of their petition for asylum. The documentary showes the difficult situation for numerous Chechen refugees in Poland.
Rosalinds Elefant
Director: Thomas Draeger, Germany 1988, 40 min.
In 1951 refugees from Silisian get accommodation in the house of family Berger. They live in the attic: Grandmother Libudka, her stepdaughter Grete and Edel, her daughter. The refugees are treated as unwelcomed guests by family Berger.
Zwischen Heimat und Fremde (Between home and abroad)
Director: Medienprojekt Wuppertal e.V., Wuppertal, Germany, 2006
Documentation , 75 min.
The video tells about the flight, expulsion and resettlement of Polish and German people during and after the Second World War.
(http://www.video-der-generationen.de/filme/index.php?id=187&k=s&s=s0029)
300 Miles to Heaven
Director: Maciej Dejczer, Poland 1989
Based on a true story from the mid-1980s, this moving drama is one of the most important Polish films on migration and communism. Indoctrinated by their own parents, two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, are so determined to escape communist Poland that they hide under a truck. They believe they are being taken into Sweden to only realize later on they have found themselves in Denmark.
Charitonova, O.: Mixed migration movements at the eastern EU border
Human Rights Documents on Refugees and Migrants
Weinar, A.: Emigration from Poland
Human Rights Conventions Overview
Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, 2005
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951
European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, 1950
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, 1995
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965