Life in the Warsaw Ghetto Documentary WWII
On October 2, 1940, German
Governor-General Hans Frank signed a
decree declaring the creation of the
Warsaw Ghetto. Frank instructed that Jews
in Warsaw and its suburbs were to be
rounded up and put into the sealed-off
ghetto. This documentary chronicles life
before and during the establishment of the
ghetto, which left hundreds of thousands
homeless and starving. Children snuck out
of the ghetto in search of food and were
shot if they were caught. Jan Zabinski,
depicted in
The Zookeeper's Wife,
smuggled Jews out of the Warsaw Ghetto to
the Warsaw Zoo, where he and his wife gave
them refuge. The documentary reveals the
horrors of life in the Warsaw Ghetto,
where death was a constant presence.
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