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    Due to the fact of great interest in the Chojecki case - organizer of a festival which emerged in 2004, half a year after ours, and which has been a copy of our WJFF since 2003 - we continue to inform you:

    Due the formal reason the trial will be continue for next several weeks. We hope for the verdict, which will present the dishonest of Mr. Miroslaw Chojecki and other organizers of so called festival Jewish Motifs and doesn’t allow the dishonest organizers to realize their Festival, which is organizing against the law.

    Important doucements:

    2010.Feb:
    New Letter to the court
    from D. Strehlau    		 2009.Oct:
    2nd Letter to the court
    from D. Strehlau    		 2009.May:
    Report on Polygraphic
    Examination of D.Strehlau


    2008.Nov:
    Pleading of
    the Complainant`s Attorney
    & the list of evidence    		 2009. Febr:
    Expert`s opinion
    concerning excerpts
    of the press article    		 The articel from POLITYKA weekly, where Mr. Chojecki did tell not truth.
  • 2010, January the 14th - the judge did decline the following term of trial and didn`t announce the new one yet.


    • The next part of the trial will take place in the Civil Court of Warsaw City. Three witnesses would be heard by Judge. Two of them, Mr. Andrzej Wajda and Mr. Krzysztof Zanussi for the side of defendant will be demand again, because they didn`t arrive last time.

    It is going about the value of ethic, morality, justice, honesty, good opinion.

    The case is to prove the dishonesty of the organizers and not legal status of the so called festival JEWISH MOTIFS, copy of Warsaw Jewish Film Festival established in 2003 by idea & project of Daniel Strehlau, which was damaged by unfair competition.
    Daniel Strehlau is represented by Pociej, Dubois and Partners, Lawyer`s Office. Soon more!


  • 2009, October the 1st


    • The next part of the trial took place in the Civil Court of Warsaw City. Only one witness of three expected was heard by Judge - one of them from Germany - Mrs. Daniela Weber from BERLINALE FF. Mrs Weber gave the testimony for the side of Daniel Strehlau. Two witnesses from Poland Mr. Andrzej Wajda and Mr. Krzysztof Zanussi, who will testify for the side of Miroslaw Chojecki and his Festival, didn`t arrive the court.

    It is going about the value of ethic, morality, justice, honesty, good opinion.

    The case is to prove the dishonesty of the organizers and not legal status of the so called festival JEWISH MOTIFS, copy of Warsaw Jewish Film Festival established in 2003 by idea & project of Daniel Strehlau, which was damaged by unfair competition.
    Daniel Strehlau is represented by his lawyer Mrs. Zofia Gajewska from Pociej, Dubois and Partners, Lawyer`s Office.


  • 2009, May the 21st


    • The next part of the trial took place in the Civil Court in Warsaw. Four witnesses were heard by Judge: Mr. Michael Tapuach - film producer from Israel, Mr. Jacek Sylwin - producer and advisor / decider of Millennium Bank according sponsorships of the Bank (Poland), Ms. Ewa Szwarcman - journalist and the author of the article, which presented the Miroslaw Chojecki`s opinion, describing Daniel Strehlau as a idea`s thief - she did confirm that she wrote what she did hear from M. Chojecki (Poland), Ms. Ewa Szprynger - President of M. Chojecki`s JEWISH MOTIFS ASSOTIATION, who did say that Chojecki is no organizer (?!) of the so called JEWISH MOTIFS Festival (Poland).

    The case is to prove the dishonesty of the organizers and not legal status of the so called festival JEWISH MOTIFS, copy of Warsaw Jewish Film Festival established in 2003 by idea & project of Daniel Strehlau, which was damaged by unfair competition.
    Daniel Strehlau is represented by his lawyer Ms. Barbara Kardynia from Pociej, Dubois and Partners, Lawyer`s Office. Soon more!


  • 2009, March the 31st


    • The next part of the trial took place in the Civil Court in Warsaw. Ms. Grace Guggenheim (USA) was rehearsal by the judge in Warsaw, Poland. The judge establish new term for the next trial, May the 21st , 2009.


  • 2009, February the 19th


    • The next part of the trial took place in the Civil Court in Warsaw. Two witnesses were interrogated by the Judge: Mr. Kostek Gebert (Poland) and Mr. Alex Claude (Israel). Daniel Strehlau was represented by his lawyer Ms. Barbara Kardynia. The judge took decision to continue the trial on March , 2009.


  • 2008, November the 25th


    • The second part of the trial took place in the Civil Court in Warsaw. Daniel Strehlau was represented by his lawyer Ms. Barbara Kardynia. The judge took decision to continue the trial on February the 19th, 2009 when Daniel Strehlau will arrive especially from NYC for the trial in Warsaw. We hope for the verdict, which will present the dishonest of Mr. Miroslaw Chojecki organizer of so called festival Jewish Motifs. Soon more!

  • 2008, September the 11th


    • The first part of the trial took place finally. By decision of the judge the trial will be continued on November the 25th. During this part the audition of both sides took place only, which took about 2 hours only.
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  • 2008, June the 25th

    • The Civil Court of Warsaw City did announce finally the day (September the 11th, 08) of the case against scandal person Miroslaw Chojecki, creator of so called Jewish Motifs festival - the copy of our Festival.


  • 2008, January 21st
    • On 25 January 2008 the Court issued a decree concerning the correction of a mistake it had made and so the case was transferred to the appropriate division of the Court. Postanowienie S±du_25_01_2008 Court Decree_2008_01_25
  • The case was protracted due to some formal reasons from the day Chojecki was summoned by the Court to the day of the settlement in December 2006, which was not accepted by Chojecki. Among other facts, those reasons were: Chojecki’s legal address of residence was unavailable (it took about three months to receive the address from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration); Chojecki did not take a number of notifications and decrees of the Court, each of which had to become final and binding within the period of about 2 – 4 weeks; the Court sent the documents to an inappropriate division and so it had to send them to the appropriate one. Due to the abovementioned, that period was extended until the beginning of April 2008. The date of the hearing is to be set in that time. The case against respondent Chojecki serves to defend the good and honest name of Daniel Strehlau and his Festival. As it can be seen from the above, that does not suit Chojecki, who only benefits from the confusion and is afraid of the confrontation, by which he confirms that to Strehlau he is a blatant liar. If he were not, he would sue Strehlau, as the petitioner sued respondent Chojecki in order to fight for his rights. The case is important to Strehlau insofar as it rectifies the injustice he suffered.



  • 2007, April the 28th





  • December the 22nd, 2006

    • On 22nd of December, 2006, as petitioned by Daniel Strehlau’s lawyer, the Commercial Court in Warsaw called on Mr. M. Chojecki to make a settlement with Mr. Strehlau. Unfortunately, despite the proposal to reach a settlement, Mr. Chojecki refused to cooperate. As Mr. Chojecki did not appreciate the fact that Mr. Strehlau had hold out his hand to him, a decision was made to conduct further legal proceedings, i.e. to file a lawsuit to the Commercial Court against Mr. Chojecki and his dishonesty.

  • Unfortunately, on his Festival web Mr. Chojecki is presenting the copyright with the date of 2002 - 2007, which is false, as his Festival was established in 2004 and his Association in 2005.

  • We would like to inform you that we have never cooperated and do not cooperate with Mr. Chojecki.

  • We are waiting for the date of the trial in the Court in Warsaw /09.06.2007/.

  • Most films described in the article published in the biggest Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza about Mr. Chojecki`s festival in May 2007 had their Polish premieres during our 4th edition of WJFF in 2006, half a year earlier. Among them were WEST BANK STORY awarded Oscar`07 and David Camera`06. Unfortunately, Gazeta Wyborcza didn`t write about it in said article or in any article about our Festival in November 2006...


  • 2005, January




  • 2004, November the 6th




  • 2003, November the 4th

    • In the Jewish State Theater in Warsaw took place the Opening Ceremony of the 1st edition of Warsaw Jewish Film Festival by idea of Daniel Strehlau.


  • 2003, July the 26th

    • The first Festival web by Daniel Strehlau was activated in the www.