Łódź Ghetto

Release Date: 1989-03-22

Runtime: 98

Languages: English | Deutsch | Polski

Rating: N/A

Votes: 0

Genres: Documentary | History

Director: Alan Adelson

Description: The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the subsequent horrors are vividly chronicled via newsr...The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the subsequent horrors are vividly chronicled via newsreels and photographs. The narration is taken almost entirely from journals and diaries of those who lived–and died–through the course of the occupation, with the number of different narrators diminishing as the film progresses, symbolic of the death of each narrator.Read More

Production Companies:

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

The National Endowment for the Humanities