[1] Its frame story is the interaction of Jewish orphans who survived the Holocaust with popular Polish comic duo Dzigan and Shumacher[2][3] After the premiere the film was banned in Poland.
[1][4] In 1951 an English-language dubbing was released under the title It Will Never Happen Again,[5] It was one of the first films about the Holocaust and probably the first one to deal with the issue of "correct" representation of the post-Holocaust trauma.
[6] Marc Caplan of Johns Hopkins University describes the film genre as "mixing satire, idyl, Holocaust testimony, and expressions of defiant hope".
[8] In 1979 the original nitrate print was discovered and the film was restored by 1991, with English captions added.
[9] A group of Jewish orphans who survived the Holocaust, on a trip from their orphanage attend a show of Dzigan and Shumacher who staged a comic skit named "Singers of the Ghetto", as two beggars singing and dancing for food.