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Łódź Ghetto

"They knew their words would reach you."

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.

Top Cast

  • Jerzy Kosiński

    Jerzy Kosiński

    Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski

  • Theodore Bikel

    Theodore Bikel

    (voice)

  • Julie Cohen

    Julie Cohen

    (voice)

  • Barbara Rosenblat

    Barbara Rosenblat

    (voice)

  • Nicholas Kepros

    Nicholas Kepros

    (voice)

  • David Warrilow

    David Warrilow

    (voice)

  • Lynn Cohen

    Lynn Cohen

    (voice)

  • Frederick Neumann

    Frederick Neumann

    (voice)

  • Jerry Matz

    Jerry Matz

    (voice)

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.

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