Warsaw: A City Divided

The Nazi destruction of a European city

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.

Documentary History

Krystyna Budnicka

(Self - Ghetto Inhabitant)

Zygmunt Walkowski

(Self - Photographer)

Józef Hen

(Self - Writer)

Irena Agata Bołdok

(Self - Ghetto Inhabitant)

Niels Gutschow

(Self - Architecture Historian)

Aleksandra Polisiewicz

(Self - Artist)

Michael Schudrich

(Self - Chief Rabbi of Poland)

Eleonora Bergman

(Self - Architecture Historian)

Jakub Szczęsny

(Self - Architect)

Beata Chomątowska

(Self - Writer)

Adam Bauman

(Self - Quote Reader (voice))

Justyna Gardzińska

(Self - Quote Reader (voice))

Jarosław Łukomski

(Self - Quote Reader (voice))

Israel Gutman

(Self - Historian (archive footage))