 Along with the popular films in Polish directed to a wide local audience, he directed an important film in Yiddish "The Dybbuk", today a monument of the rich cultural life of East European Jewry before the Holocaust.At the beginning of World War II Waszyński escaped from Warsaw, which was being bombed by German planes, to Białystok.That city was taken in mid-September 1939 by the Germans, but within weeks, as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the city was given to the Soviet Union and occupied by its army.