Overview
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.
Production
Corporation for Public Broadcasting · The National Endowment for the Humanities
Cast & Characters
Jerzy Kosiński
Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski
Theodore Bikel
(voice)
Julie Cohen
(voice)
Barbara Rosenblat
(voice)
Nicholas Kepros
(voice)
David Warrilow
(voice)
Lynn Cohen
(voice)
Frederick Neumann
(voice)
Jerry Matz
(voice)
Gregory Gordon
(voice)
Eva Wellisz
(voice)
Sam Tsoutsouvas
(voice)
Directors & Crew
Alan Adelson
Writer
Alan Adelson
Director
Kate Taverna
Director
Stephen Samuels
Producer
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