PAMIEC NA POKOLENIA. POKAZ FILMOW O ZAGLADZIE (MEMORY FOR GENERATIONS. A SCREENING OF MOVIES ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST)
WARSZAWA: MIASTO PODZIELONE (WARSAW: A CITY DIVIDED)
Recommended. The documentary starts with a tram which makes sense when you hear the story. A completely new take on the ghetto. The extermination is mentioned as if on the margin of the main plot. It's the first time I've seen the area (due to excellent drone pictures), the borders of the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw as an urban development and an architectural plan. You see how the Nazis envisaged it. On the one hand, it strikes you with how methodically the occupiers acted having a comprehensive plan of action and on the other, how painful it is to this day for survivors to walk the former ghetto streets. The ghetto was dismantled to rubble, mind it. The current streets and buildings were built from scratch, not counting human remains in re-used rubble - some Muranów inhabitants say their flats are haunted by ghosts. Golden placques on buildings apparently mark the borderline - I'll have to walk the route once.
SWIADKOWIE EPOKI: CZAS ZAGLADY
Recommended. A hard-hitting register of testimonies about the Holocaust where even a poem tells about the people who didn't have graves. Horrible stories about gas chambers fill most of this luckily short documentary.
OSTATNI ETAP (1947) (THE LAST STAGE)
Watchable. Probably the most realistic feature about a concentration camp: shot right after the war which means there's real mud on the ground and nights are black. Shot on a camp location, with prisoners and staff speaking various tongues without translation. Based on real cases too. Ends abruptly. And that includes "Koniec" ("The End") without a long list of end credits - the latter is a bliss.
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