Ruth (played by Lena Dunham) is a protagonist in Treasure.
Protagonist and a young woman from New York. She travels to Poland shortly after the fall of the Iron Curtain to accompany her father on a journey to his childhood home, former business sites, and Auschwitz. She represents the second generation navigating inherited trauma, historical memory, and her father's guarded emotional landscape. Edek (played by Stephen Fry) is a protagonist in Treasure.
Ruth's father and a miraculous survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, having lost his large Jewish family. He leverages his fluency in Polish to blend in and befriend locals, but his outward zest for life masks a deep distrust of Polish people and a profound wariness of exploring the past, specifically fearing Ruth will suffer a fate similar to his relatives after the 1946 Kielce Pogrom.
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Characters
Ruth
(played by Lena Dunham) — protagonist
Protagonist and a young woman from New York. She travels to Poland shortly after the fall of the Iron Curtain to accompany her father on a journey to his childhood home, former business sites, and Aus...
Edek
(played by Stephen Fry) — protagonist
Ruth's father and a miraculous survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, having lost his large Jewish family. He leverages his fluency in Polish to blend in and befriend locals, but his outward ze...
Key Relationships
Ruth → Edek
(Family Father)
Story Analysis
A daughter accompanies her Holocaust survivor father to Poland to confront historical memory and familial loss.
