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Still from chapter 3 – "Hunger" / Animation: Bartosz Tymosiewicz
"Last soup – yesterday at twenty to one. Nearest – same time today. Much time has already passed. How much is left? Eight hours. Although, in fact, the last hour, which is from twelve, doesn't count. Then you are in the kitchen, drunk with the smell of food. You can already see the soup. It seems that there are actually only seven hours left," wrote Lejb Goldin in August 1941.
"The parting from life in Treblinka or Auschwitz lasts from 10 to 15 minutes, and our life can be compared to that of a person sentenced to death in a locked cell, whose request for pardon has already been rejected and whose execution is delayed for some reason unknown to him. There may also be a miracle that will save him. He may even have that hope for a brief moment, but only for a moment. Most of the day and night, he falls from side to side as a result of death pains, mortal fear," wrote Abraham Lewin in his diary on December 16, 1942. Then, three months after the end of the great deportation, the prisoners already knew what "resettlement" was. Some of them prepared to put up armed resistance to the Germans.
We present a list of animations accompanying the emotional and existential states experienced by people imprisoned in the ghetto.
E. (Eliahu Różański), February 1941
Interpreted by Mateusz Damięcki
Animation: Agnieszka Mastalerz
Artistic supervision of the series: Jacek Papis
Music: Michał Jacaszek
Chapter II: The Limits Imposed by Walls
Abraham Lewin, June 30, 1942
Interpreted by Martin Budny
Animation: Michał Bojara
Artistic supervision of the series: Jacek Papis
Music: Piotr Leniewicz, Jacek Papis
Icchak Berensztein, 1941
Interpreted by Martin Budny
Animation: Bartosz Tymosiewicz
Artistic supervision of the series:: Jacek Papis
Music: Piotr Leniewicz, Jacek Papis
Abraham Lewin, July 29, 1942
Interpreted by Martin Budny
Animation: Karolina Kotowska
Artistic supervision of the series: Jacek Papis
Music: Piotr Leniewicz, Jacek Papis
Lejb Goldin, August 1941
Interpreted by Martin Budny
Animation: Jakub Woynarowski
Artistic supervision of the series: Jacek Papis
Music: Piotr Leniewicz, Jacek Papis
Chapter VI: The Limits of Intimacy
Halina Szwambaum, January 11, 1942
Interpreted by Martin Budny
Animation: Karolina Kotowska
Artistic supervision of the series: Jacek Papis
Music: Michał Jacaszek
Chapter VII: The Limits of Compassion
Szaul Stupnicki, early 1942
Interpreted by Martin Budny
Animation: Bartosz Tymosiewicz
Artistic supervision of the series: Jacek Papis
Music: Michał Jacaszek
Natan Smolar, spring/summer 1942
Interpreted by Martin Budny
Animation: Jacek Papis
Zdjęcia: Jan Klima, Piotr Leniewicz
Artistic supervision of the series: Jacek Papis
Music: Michał Jacaszek
Kalonimus Kalman Szapiro, Warsaw ghetto tzadik, February 14, 1942 (Polish only)
Read by: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Animation: Jakub Woynarowski
Artistic supervision of the series: Jacek Papis
Music: Michał Jacaszek
Zofia Breustedt, September 6, 1941
Interpreted by Martin Budny
Animation: Michał Bojara
Artistic supervision of the series: Jacek Papis
Music: Piotr Leniewicz i Jacek Papis
Chapter XI: The Limits of Life
Gustawa Jarecka, October 1942
Interpreted by Magdalena Lamparska
Animation: Agnieszka Mastalerz
Artistic supervision of the series: Jacek Papis
Music: Piotr Leniewicz, Jacek Papis
Fragments of the accounts of the ghetto inhabitants are excerpts from the catalog of the exhibition Where Art Thou? Gen. 3.9”, edited by prof. Paweł Śpiewak.
The exhibition Where Art Thou? Gen 3:9 can be visited at the Jewish Historical Institute until August 31, 2021.
The exhibition is part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto, organized by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. It was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport.