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Return to My Shtetl Delatyn
- Grade Level: General-Adult
- Subjects: Social Studies
- Produced By: Willy Lindwer
- Year: 1992
- Country: Netherlands
- Language: English
- Running Time: 60m
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Filmmaker Willy Lindwer traveled with his father Berl Nuchim and his daughter Michal to Galicia (now Poland & Ukraine) to retrace the route his father had taken six decades earlier, escaping from he Nazis and to see how the area and its inhabitants had changed. This film contains unique historic footage of pre-war life in the shtetls.
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