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Give Me Your Children

[Oddajcie mi swoje dzieci]

DIRECTED By: Piotr Weychert,
Piotr Perz
SCREENPLAy: Piotr Weychert,
Mirosław Chojecki, Marek Miller
CINEMATOGRAPHy: Grzegorz Siwicki
EDITING: Sławomir Filip
COMMENTARy WRITTEN By:
Piotr Perz, Paweł Śpiewak,
Piotr Weychert
CONSULTATION: Anka Grupińska
DOCUMENTATION: Piotr Weychert,
Piotr Perz
MUSIC: Jarosław Lublin
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Paweł Lipski
PRODUCTION: Grupa Filmowa
CO-FINANCING: PISF, Media Kontakt,
City of Łódź
LANGUAGE: Polish
PRODUCTION DATE: 2014
ARCHIVAL MATERIALS USED:
The film is still in post-production
The film features the accounts of survivors, who recall the
worsening living conditions in the ghetto, work beyond human
endurance, death from starvation and emaciation. It focuses
on an unprecedented event in the ghetto history: the Great
Szpera. In his speech of September 4, 1942, Chaim Mordechaj
Rumkowski, the Elder of the Jews, announced that the Nazis
had ordered the deportation 24,000 inhabitants of the ghetto,
including small children. Rumkowski appealed to the ghetto
inmates to give their children voluntarily. Eventually, 20,000
'unproductive' persons (children under the age of 10, the ill
and people over the age of 60) were deported. Their deporta-
tion was a harbinger of what was yet to come: a mass exter-
mination in death camps.
B.Z.

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