Documentary about the Warsaw Ghetto : Everyday Grey News

Emanuel Ringelblum, before the outbreak of war, a teacher at a Jewish school, knew early on that the plans of the German, the abriegelten over 300, 000 people with a high wall of the environment, would result in a rupture of Civilisation. For posterity, as it was in this Ghetto, he gathered under the constant danger to life, certificates and documents, together with up to 30 helpers, including the young Marcel Reich-Ranicki, the remains in the Film, however, is unmentioned.

"Who will write our History?", the original title of this international NDR co-production, Ringelblums archive "Oneg Shabbat" (joy of Shabbat), a cinematic monument. The American Director Roberta Grossman, a specialist in Jewish topics, based on the research of the American historian Samuel Kassow, whose book "Ringelblums legacy", was published in 2010.

The story of the Warsaw ghetto has been told many times. More or less unintentionally chronicler to transport the perspective of the perpetrators. This American docu-drama about the secret archives of the Polish Jews, in contrast, shows how people with courage, ingenuity and poetry against the destruction of will of the Nazis to the military.

Grossman's Film also uses fictional scenes. The actors speak subtitled Yiddish. The Reenactment is not restrained used, it is reminiscent of Guido Knopps history verkitschung. The Polish actor Piotr Glowacki embodied in the 1944, Ringelblum. Jowita Budnik takes on the role of Holocaust survivors, Rachela Auerbach, from whose perspective the events are rolled up.

Cultural exchange with theatre performances, concerts

The Film makes palpable how the Polish-Jewish writer with the impossibility of the account of the Ghetto experience rank. Her diary, which has survived thanks to the underground archive, is one of the most important Holocaust documents.

the Nachinszenierungen be Supplemented with opinions of historians and shocking film documents. On one of these Black-and-White films to see how a grinning young soldier cuts off an elderly Jew with the Beard. In these infamous productions of the Nazis ' victims to dehumanized objects of subjugation.

A completely different picture emerges thanks to those nearly 30 000 pages of had a reason to archive, Ringelblum and his supporters in metal boxes and milk cans buried. These narratives: in Spite of unimaginable reprisal and agonizing Hunger of Polish Jews, held show up to the last a lively cultural exchange with theatre performances, concerts, libraries, and schools in an upright position.

The archive, which could be recovered in 1946 and 1950 and for ten years as world heritage of Unesco belongs to, contains no well-ordered history, as in a history book. In addition to photos, Nazi regulations, descriptions of children and of Yiddish poetry, it also holds certificates of unimaginable inhumanity.

The Film before the eyes, as the Horror of commonplace and everyday was Grey. So women had to, because it pleased the "Lord of people", "the Sidewalk with your pants, wipe up and wet, then re-tighten".

And how does it feel when you walked past every day of dying children? The one who was heartless? Or was he strong because he has made a decision to save their own children? The Film suggests that in such a Situation, there is no adequate way of action is more possible.

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