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Lodz Ghetto

DIRECTED By: Alan Adelson,
Kathryn Taverna
SCREENPLAy: Alan Adelson
CINEMATOGRAPHy: Józef Piwkowski,
Eugene Squires
PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION:
Gary Becker, Kathryn Taverna
NARRATORS: Jerzy Kosiński,
Nicholas Kepros, Barbara Rosenblat,
David Warrilow, Gregory Gordon,
Alan Adelson, Theodore Bikel
EDITING: Kathryn Taverna
HISTORICAL CONSULTATION:
Lucjan Dobroszycki
MUSIC: Wendy Blackstone
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:
Steven Samuels
PRODUCER: Alan Adelson
LENGTH: 103 min
LANGUAGE: English
PRODUCTION DATE: 1989
ARCHIVAL MATERIALS USED: A historical portrait of Litzmannstadt. Compilation of archival
materials from the ghetto, fragments of Nazi film chronicles
Photographs by Mendel Grossman
and Henryk Ross, notes from the Lodz and film materials produced at the end of 1980s. Excerpts
ghetto by Oskar Rozenfeld and Oskar from ghetto diaries are used in lieu of classical commentary.
Singer, Dawid Sierakowiak's diary, These diaries, as was the case with Mendel Grosman's pho-
writings of Józef Klementynowski and tographs, were written in secret and left for future generations
Irene Liebman, excerpts from the
as a testimony. The victims' memoirs, read expressively by
Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto
male and female voices build a subjective historical testimony
– a story of the everyday life (including the writer Jerzy Ko-
siński) in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto.
B.Z.

FILMING LOCATIONS IN ŁÓDŹ: Zgierska Street, Kościelny Square (2),
Jojne Pilicer Square (3), Wojska Polskiego Street, Łagiewnicka
Street.

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