"The Lilliput" - trailer of a feature film, which was financed by an American producer. Story placed in present time and WWII. Tells a story about a WWII Jewish survivor. Message from the Director: Inspired by a true story and produced by Sharon Levy, THE LILLIPUT will illuminate the Holocaust survival story of Abraham Kerber, a Jewish dwarf, from the Polish town of Gombin. This little person hid for years in garbage cans at a Polish railway station used for the deportation of Jews during World War II. Kerber was a friend of my beloved late father, Michael Zielonka, and my dearly departed mother, Sonia Gershonovitch, who were also survivors of the Shoah. The town of Gombin was a bucolic place, a Polish suburb several miles west of Warsaw. It was a place, where, before WWII, people took summer vacations in bungalows by the lakes and along the Vistula River, enjoying the aroma of the ancient pine forests that surround the town. It is within those unheated bungalows that the Nazis forced the Jews, multiple families to each room, to survive the cold winters in the ghetto in Gombin, before they liquidated the entire Jewish community - to nearby Chelmno, the first extermination camp in the occupied Poland. Before WWII, Poland contained the largest population of Jews in Western Europe. For centuries, the Jewish people developed in Poland, furthering their religious and intellectual identity; in the arts, film, theater, music, literature, poetry, sociology, the sciences, medicine, business, religion, and virtually every area of expertise. In turn, the Jewish people gave their all and helped to build the nation that is today, Poland, serving the nation as righteous and law abiding citizens. Much of this has been forgotten, because the Jews did not survive in Poland, or in much of Europe, for that matter. The few survivors who did make it back to their cities, towns and villages, did not experience a very nice welcome by their Polish neighbors. Many returned to Lodz, which was previous to WWII a very Jewish city and contained the second largest Jewish population after Warsaw. In 1945, it was Lodz, where I am based as an American Fulbright, that my father, along with my mother and the Jewish dwarf, Abraham Kerber, and many of the remaining survivors of the Shoah, returned, in their attempts to rebuild their lives in Poland. Ultimately, most of the Jewish people who survived the war in Poland left the country in later purges by the Communists in the late 1960's and 1980's. My parents went to Germany as did Abraham Kerber, and lived in displaced persons camps for years before they could emigrate to the U.S. and Israel, which is where Abraham Kerber lived and worked as a photographer until 1978, when he died.