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🗓️ 24 January 2021
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Codenamed Oyneg Shabbat (Joy of the Sabbath), a team of 'researchers' wrote and collected documents detailing life and death inside the ghetto. The secret project was conducted inside the Warsaw Ghetto during World War Two. Led by the historian, Emanuel Ringelblum, the archive included surveys on schooling, smuggling, the life of the streets, the bitter jokes, the price of bread. Members of the project gathered posters, songs, newspapers, pamphlets and even tram tickets that together convey the essence of the Ghetto.
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0:00.0 | This high brick wall I'm standing by in Warsaw is one of the last signs of a vanished |
0:08.1 | city that once held half a million people. The brief bitter life of the Jewish ghetto can still a buried under the city 70 years ago. |
0:23.0 | This is the story of how the archive was collected, hidden and recovered. |
0:28.0 | The voices you hear come from its pages. |
0:31.0 | Here Warsaw, my Warsaw. |
0:35.0 | For me, you are dead. |
0:38.0 | 22 July, Wednesday. |
0:41.0 | Driesl. 6,250 people deported. |
0:47.0 | 23rd July, Thursday, cool, rain on and off all day. |
0:56.0 | 7,200 people deported. May the treasure fall into good hands, may it last into better times, May it alarm and alert the world to what happened |
1:15.0 | and what was played out in the 20th century. We may die now in peace. We have fulfilled |
1:21.2 | our mission. May history be our witness. |
1:24.0 | David Graber, age 19. Red brick stuck with crumbly mortar, Schener Street. On the far side I can see the glassy blue tower of the intercontinental hotel. |
1:45.7 | The reneet rows of marigolds planted, children playing in the courtyard. |
1:50.3 | It's hard to imagine that in the middle of the 20th century, the middle of modern Europe, |
1:54.4 | this peaceful spot was the wall of a prison city. |
1:57.6 | The Warsaw Ghetto held half a million Jewish souls, |
2:01.6 | forced here when Hitler crushed Poland into the Greater Reich. |
2:06.2 | All over Europe Jewish people were trapped into ghettos. |
2:09.6 | This was the biggest. run your hands along this wall and you can just about trace how it would have divided |
2:35.4 | neighbor from neighbor, slicing through buildings, streets and lives. Behind here, everyone |
2:41.8 | from the film stars of Warsaw to the wretched farmers forced from their villages and stettles |
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