A documentary film. At the outbreak of World War II, 380,000 Jews lived in Warsaw, about a third of the city's population. In the fall of 1940, the the Germans transferred them to the ghetto. On November 19, 1982, Günther Schwarberg, the editor of the German magazine "Der Stern" was invited to the home of an 84-year-old man, from whom he received a yellowing envelope with 140 negatives of photos he had taken 41 years earlier, during World War II. This man was Heinz Jost. who took pictures at the ghetto . The film combines archive footage, photographs by Joest, and excerpts from the diaries of Emmanuel...
The affect of the Shoah on the national memory.
Christie's sale. (pictures of Warsaw Ghetto taken by German soldier in February 1941).
Stills from Warsaw ghetto.
Interview: Director Marcel Opolus gives his opinion of why there is no point doing any more films about the Shoah (nothing more to discuss about).
Still: Warsaw Ghetto ruins, postwar.
Interview: The producer's father's preparation and thinking before his first visit to Poland.
Still: Family prewar photo.
Footage: Prewar Warsaw, buildings, looking for workshops.
סדרת תעודה . הסדרה שודרה בתאגיד השידור הציבורי "כאן 11". הגנאולוג ד"ר ארנון הרשקוביץ וההיסטוריונית ד"ר רונה יונה, מפענחים סיפורים נסתרים וסודות משפחה של שלוש משפחות. בפרק זה של הסדרה השתתפה כלנית בן חיים, קרובת משפחתו של אדם צ'רניאקוב ז"ל, ר' היודנראט בגטו ורשה.
סרט דוקומנטרי מאת אשטון גליקמן. הסרט מגולל את סיפורם של למעלה מעשרים וחמישה ניצולים, משחררים ומלומדים, וקטעי תמונות מאתרי המחנות בפולין, כולל אושוויץ וטרבלינקה.
A Documentary. The last film by Claud Lanzmann. What they have in common, apart from the specific horrors each one of them was subjected to, is their intelligence, an incisive, sharp and carnal intelligence that rejects all pretence and false reason – in a word – idealism. By the director of the monumental Shoah.
Paula Biren, Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman and Hanna Marton - four names of Jewish women, witnesses and survivors of the most insane and ruthless savagery, and who, for this sole reason - but for many others too - deserve to be etched for ever more in human memory.
THE FOUR SISTERS is selected...