Summary: Polish documentary about the creation and the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto 1939-43.
Description: The film is made in memory of the Polish Jews and underground fighters murdered by the Nazis. It begins in September 1939 and shows the victorious Nazi troops in Poland including Governor General Hans Frank at Cracow, SS troops stopping Poles in the street, etc. There are shots from the creation of the Jewish state-within-a-state in the Warsaw Ghetto and the transportation of the Jews into the Ghetto. The rest of the film is shot inside the Ghetto, mostly in the streets and shows the gradual starvation of the populace, the trading and bartering, street beggars and eventually the dead lying on the pavements. There are then sequences of the Jewish population being rounded up and transported off by lorry and train for 'resettlement' as they believed. Finally there are a set of photographs from the Uprising of April 18 to May 16 1943 ending in the total destruction of the Ghetto.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:MGH 588
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
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Production Date:1962
Production Country: Poland
Production Details: Film Polski, Warsaw Documentary Films Studio (Production company)
Bossak, Jerzy (Production individual)
Kazmierczak, Waclaw (Production individual)
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Keywords: Warsaw, Poland (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 1070 ft; Running time: 30 mins
