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a dream. that i mean if there's nothing here to remind me of my birthplace it was think that there was once a beautiful square more enough city square i remember trees benches people. who were 3 i'm sure bush being i was born in warsong into a traditional jewish family. i went to a preschool for jewish children where they taught polish but at home we spoke
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yiddish but i had no problem with the polish language we spoke that to get boards. where you were just in jets kovi my parents lived in warsaw. my grandparents 2. we lived at 91 jelena streets all book by the gate was a tiny shop which was owned by a jewish neighbor. he had this trick where his pretend just to chase fingers together with a needle he was reviewing that of course he made a huge impression on os kids and it would be horrifying if i only out sort of he had a daughter called long the other crews who was friends with my sister initially poor person we have just by normal neighbors. nobody peter moylan my street was no holy p.s.v.
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just sometimes i can see it more clearly than the warsaw around me today. in my memory it's still the same. in the morning warm pretzels would be delivered by me they were called bagels i likely won't find bagels like those anywhere these days but you could take one and twist it was flown. i don't need to lie my parents have difficulty 9 much across the street to the so called good neighborhood. my and my nanny will take me to the church of the holiest save yet i remember we had to recite press that some children would say they didn't know the president but i felt i knew them because my nonito and i. know about that even though a little bit the meat of the war began at the jordan top on by good tate a straight as i was sitting in a sand pit so my mum came over to show him my arm she said there's
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wausau and build a german bow 5 talk goes on the advice of mr daniel developed the dream of reducing also. next to nothing. on the screen is the visualization from one of my projects it's based on fascist plans for the construction of a new german city in the noir start of rochelle this is a virtual reconstruction of that new war song this is the city center is done with it's a relatively small city in the entrances were to be guarded by watch towers on all sides station sunny skies ministries are the main buildings of the new german
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warsaw the wire going to stop. no cancer though on the progress side there was to be a district for paul to increase slowly exterminated into the new german city of warsaw was to be inhabited only by germans and there was to be no jewish population on average. with regard to warsaw the furore has decided that the reconstruction of that city is a major polish metropolis is absolutely out of the question the fear is wishes that in accordance with plans for the territories development under the general government warsaw be reduced to the level of a provincial city from the diary of governor general hunt's frank. once the germans arrived the terror began almost right away with various official announcements and notices. was not given
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recent of all jews were forced to wear armbands with the star of david it was off and that would usually. be. in my mind this was a form of degradation at any moment i could be humiliated for unusual. in the spring of 1940 consultations began with a view to creating one or more jewish housing districts within the city of warsaw in the end however it was decided that a single district should be established in the area where jews were traditionally the majority. dr friedrich golet s. as. head of division of regional planning office of the governor of the district of warsaw.
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it was the jewish neighborhood in warsaw there were jewish neighborhoods. where it was almost all jewish when you're a 3rd of the city you're all over the city and the interaction with. that comes to a crashing halt the building of the warsaw ghetto wall which goes through the heart of the city and divides jews from non jews as they were never divided before. more. like a cover out to lure on the wall didn't appear suddenly bits and pieces of the wall started to be built from april $940.00 these were sections of wall or barriers with
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barbed wire they popped up in various places toss their gong on that was the reason of news that. i had no idea i was jewish i say 1st i was asking them why do we have to move and later what does it mean that i'm jewish and why do we have to leave our homes with the motion of poles church and on. their cultures different though that when we arrived in the ghetto the 1st thing i saw was a horrible poster i didn't want to be like that you're on the pope's death and i
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was distraught has been forced to live that. i thought that every geezer had to look like that i was so terribly humiliated by a heart i said to my mom i didn't want to be a jew anymore that i wanted to go back to moshe comes to the streets rid of and why was all this happening anyway no matter how costco no longer have to live to go to auction very. notice by order of the district governor and effective immediately a self-contained jewish quarter is to be created in the district of warsaw with a view to preventing the spread of disease in the city of war soar abound rerunning around the jewish quarter has been established will bow to streets not to be closed off from it on both sides as follows. from g.l. not to accrue lives gun and sword tongues. and jealous none from to. and stripper none. from thread bernanke to to and me a john and from me
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to issuer's a mission is scalia but we already lived in the area that was now the ghetto because more and no ski square was inside the area jews who lived outside the ghetto had to move in and poles who lived in the ghetto had to move out. there for their children this led to very painful situations for people they left their homes they left their furniture and possessions carrying only a few small bundles with them. the ghetto became very crowded.
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the jew we've all seen the images of the acts not the jewish community something similar happened the other way around too there were tens of thousands of people like us i remember sitting on a cart full of our things. yoke we were thrown out of challenge now because the ghetto was created their vision the soon as they got the goods we were moved to st number 5 apartment 100 and. it was a ruin. measures involve the resettlement of around $700.00 ethnic germans 113000 poles and 138000 jews the warsaw jewish housing district is an enclosed area cut off from its surroundings by walls fences and so on movement of persons and goods in and out of
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the area used by special permit only. dr friedrich goal at s. s. on to shoo in for a head of division of regional planning office of the governor of the district of warsaw. those characters after movie versions you know as our tradition is always looking for contact sound signed they get a war going to get renewed. for toronto lawyer should 1st lawyer came to our son branched us treat he though we weren't well off at the time nickel were jewish in the middle 3 siblings my mom and my dad and that. my father did the smuggling because there was no other way that in the sense. i lived but my mother put aside potatoes and feelings for her. or be
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a kick. you know in year later lonia stopped coming. when the trigger here of course we didn't know why. but the mayor just. booked us slow after that my sister simply disappeared on i.e. i don't know how she and my father just ceased to exist. i don't remember any farewell or any of the circumstances maybe my memory suppressed it because it was too terrible. starshine a. question of ourselves as though variant the city center was cut off and ceased to function normally. when you see which part of the city made up the ghetto you realize it was really the heart of warsaw. is of use to show if you take into account
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that the germans also carved off a piece for themselves what was left of warsaw for other residents was just a small part. of. the german housing district has been created for the protection of the german population at their request the police cannot guarantee germans living outside of this district the same degree of personal safety as is provided to those living within it hunts nazi party. warsaw.
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individual faces around recognizable. the german army and civilians must in any event be protected from the jews immune carriers of disease the separation of jews from the rest of the population polish as well as ethnic germans is a moral and political imperative traffic in the center of warsaw has also been only minimally affected by the creation of the jewish housing district. in the interests of the van dam the economy great care was taken to ensure that certain main thoroughfares would remain crossable without obstruction to through traffic. waldemar sure in s s standout and fewer director of department of resettlement
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office of the governor of the district of warsaw. by himself to the jello the german planners divided things up each administering their division. they even designated which 3 said tram would travel along to shorten its route through the ghetto. that created 2 ghettos it was all a terrifying mishmash of evil starship. ended up dividing the jewish district boston gets them such a district was cut and the 2 parts by the critically important tram line that ran along 5. years with. the ghetto was divided into 2 ponds a small ghetto and a launch one. in order for jews to move back and folk between the small and the
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launch it was necessary to stop the flow of traffic at intervals since this was inconvenient for the germans jews were given permission to cross over as in pretty quickly as possible. because i won't tunnel i would see from a distance the crowd milling at the corner of cotton people would be shifting restlessly almost spot waiting for the german police to decide when the traffic on caught my eye was light enough and the crowd on july think enough to want letting the jews across the street. when the moment finally came the police cordon would pond and impatient crowd would
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surge forward in both directions pushing each other over in the panic to distance themselves from the dangerous german presence and melts one small into the depths of the to get us. yes darchinyan was a line in the pavement shows where the ghetto border ran how the ghetto fit into warsaw. you have to go there all should you truly it wasn't an
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isolated island is around by the unknown it was embedded in the city. through gold in each plaque there's a marker showing where we are the parts of downtown warsaw that were torn away are elevated which are unclear now obviously. now soon as i'm usually i'm told much less and my intention was to show the ghetto in real space how it was and where the boundary ran through.
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a pole who was his friend she didn't stand a chance you know there was nothing he could do. in the bush he cared only about what he would eat the next day and what he would give his children yeah. it's not going to g.h. oh yeah i was one of those who didn't have anything. 1000 about 80 percent of food in the ghetto came from smuggling of not from official suppliers authorized by the german suppose it was me ok and then if someone had money they could get things into the ghetto somehow that i went through with mr tran passing through and were nasty square and as it turned the corner items were thrown out could a stop in a get out this was how trade carried on with the 3rd party that on their own the candle thought you. busy busy busy busy
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sidewalks these openings but also used by children for smuggling tiny dark creatures with legs like mache takes would converge on these openings from all sides terrified eyes darted from left to right and fry on poles dragged through bundles that were often bigger than the tiny smugglers themselves. busy busy busy busy
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notice. any jew unlawfully leaving the designated housing district is to be punished by death the same punishment will apply to persons who consciously protect such jews or in any way assist them warsaw 10th of november 1941 dr fisher governor. but a lot of sienna is a very important street today i feel this is a street i was scared of and i still am to this day you can rejoin the oppression i've never walked the street without feeling afraid behind this wall i spent more than 2 years in the get away with my family.
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when i 1st found myself back i began looking obsessive lee for the holes through which my mom and i had escaped i just stood there going back in time trying to figure out where that hole could be. but the hole was probably somewhere else further on. leading to me. when i look back i see 2 years of humiliation imprisonment and hunger and fear. as i said i'm scared of seattle streets i still expect why the sea all remember something terrible that.
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all around i could see hand counts and on the bodies of men women and children piled callously one on top of the other. i became aware of a strange vaguely sweet and sickening odor i've never smelled before. a jewish policeman explained. next to the jewish cemetery there was once a launch beyond today it's one of the biggest mass graves ever filled with the bodies of jews from all corners of europe.
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who. could this be real how is it possible that a human being or flesh and blood should have to die in such a pitiful fashion. in german occupation murdered 90 percent of the jews here. is heartbreaking. and if you can imagine that not only does the wall go through the heart of the city right in the middle of a street it stops but on the other side of that wall. starvation disease and very soon after deportation to death. from.
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food. the one. room. for security reasons i order that the ghetto of warsaw be demolished all utilize it will building parts and other materials of any value to 1st be salvaged an overall plan for the raising of the ghetto is to be submitted to me we must in any event ensure that the living space occupied until now by 500000 subhumans and in no way fit for habitation by germans disappears completely and that warsaw the city of 1000000 always a center of corruption and revolt is reduced in size. heinrich himmler writes here a s s. get off our ship again.
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resignation through at the same time as an organized resistance group was preparing to fight. jews in the ghetto or going into hiding. the russia who clearly. yes they shamble to go i went into that bunker in january 43 and in april the uprising broke out that my brothers left to take part in the uprising this bunker was built around a basement that had been dug deeper with boarded up sides the dug out earth was piled up all around and it provided some kind of insulation when the fire started and everything in the neighboring basements collapsed and burned with this bunker survived. an entire remember 943 seeing uncanny clouds of smoke rising from the north from
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the pool not say fighting in the get arc of against something was happening events or. there is no longer a jewish quarter of warsaw. s. as gripping fear. for them thak are shit chromium already it still pains me that after all these years i never got to mourn my family i never even had time for that work that i lost everyone here i had 6 brothers and a sister parents yeah i'm the only one who survived it all i was left as a witness without me there'd be nobody. going everywhere the value of life is in
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bearing witness to musician yes. geishas street concentration camp was set up to hold people needed to demolish the ghetto yorkey it wasn't any blown up with dynamite but also dismantled it was completely plundered and that camp was hell people die and they're. not there when you get on the ruins of the ghetto the nazis wanted to create a park for germans our rich hence the demolition ends. stoned reality i was to be covered over with out of them you know i'm turned into a dot in paradise you know for only i skipped over. the intention was to destroy the capital of what was formally poland
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that was the main intention to destroy be idea a lawn. because there was no more poland. bradley at all i spent almost a year on the area inside there was a whole network of helpers if things got dangerous someone would come by and take you by the hand up a multi. meantime he's either here on the 1st of august 1044 the uprising broke out twice i lived through the burning of war silence of. the co of the drugs and all around the walls were almost red hot. and people were being herded along the ground or the front both sides of the streets burning debris was coming down the barrel of
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the shit you need or saw was on fire there is that good and you could feel it for shit too what of just the guy by the way she was jamming. after liberation in 1945 you couldn't live in warsaw really. and slowly trying to. build and then getting. again undermined by soviet occupation and oppression.
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firstly it's difficult to imagine what was here before the war this area has changed so much certain streets and squares ceased to exist names were changed directions were altered for no more than a dozen or so original buildings have survived all of. the 1st 3 months reveal of them yeah this area has many layers underneath the ground there is a 2nd layer which shows itself when workers dig down to lay pipes to some laos a business which then the remains of the past are uncovered. will talk to them the research on. building will get done in $149.00 of the architects created a housing estate which was to be a memorial space or is it
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a simple me that. is a push that was only a pull of the nothing what was unique was that the bricks of the buildings were made from rubble on top of whatever else that was in the rubble including human remains of the group or the work of should to be just one commute skinny. domo story the building stand on concrete foundations made using rather. they arise from these strange little hills that stands out because warsaw is a flat city. people calling me and saying there are spirits in my apartment i'm in the old ghetto can you do something. well i have that's beyond my competence but i did go and i said sounds because if a person feels i can make them for if i need someone for more peace and i'm happy
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your building was here on the corner number 10 and yes there are plenty of us on this map bite marks the location of your phone. so grim housing it on the current image egypt you know it was on this street tell his family intersection you yeah that's where your hand used to say but if you don't push it would you am i was born here.
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the memory of the ghetto is beginning to really return into the memory into the soul of war song. give people a chance to remember and chances are they will remember. it on 1000th the anniversary of the what you know uprising while we're moving farther away from the event actually the number of people coming is growing that's a sign of hope.
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