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e Story of Chaim Rumkowski

and the Jews of Lodz

DIRECTED By: Peter Cohen,
Bo Kuritzen
SCREENPLAy: Bo Kuritzen
CINEMATOGRAPHy: Mendel
Grossman, Henryk Ross
NARRATOR: Karl-Ake Mohlin
EDITING: Peter Cohen
HISTORICAL CONSULTATION:
Lucjan Dobroszycki
PRODUCER: Peter Cohen
PRODUCTION: POJ Film Production AB
and Swedish Television STV 1
LENGTH: 55 min.
LANGUAGE: English and Swedish
PRODUCTION DATE: 1982
ARCHIVAL MATERIALS USED:
from the collection of The British
Museum (London), Bundesarchiv
(West Germany), The Museum
of Polish Jews (Warsaw),
The Wiener Library (London),
The yIVO Institute for Jewish A documentary about the history of the Lodz ghetto from its
beginnings in February 1940, to its liquidation in August
Research (New york)
1944.The authors depict in detail the subsequent stages of
the organization of the ghetto. The key figure is Chaim
Rumkowski, appointed as the Eldest of the Jews in Litz-
mannstadt Ghetto. The Nazi decree which ordered that Jewish
Councils come into being was an important element of the ex-
termination strategy. Rumkowski's role in those plans is dubi-
ous. The authors resign from any ultimate evaluations. They
painstakingly reconstruct the living conditions in the ghetto
using a rich collection of archival photographs. At the end of
the film, the photographic material is supplemented with film
footage – shot by an anonymous German soldier.
B.Z

FILMING LOCATIONS IN ŁÓDŹ: Jojne Pilcer Market Square (3),
Zgierska Street, Kościelny Square (5), Rynek Bałucki (15), Radegast
station (37), Nowomiejska Street (7), Wojska Polskiego Street at
Kościelny Square (4).

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