GERM 1171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Roman Polanski, Jewish Ghetto Police

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2/13/18
German 1171
Pianist (2002)
Setting: Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland
- Before being sent to concentration camps
- Roughly 50,000 at the end started uprising at the end when there were already many
people sent to labor and death camps
- When Jew tried to escape through the sewers the Germans flooded the sewers
Review:
- Definition of Jews/ non-Jews
- Expropriation
- Ghettoization/ concentration
- Deportation
- Destruction
Germans occupied Poland in 1939
- Capital of Poland (Warsaw)
- Percentage of Jews in Poland population: 10%
- Jews were relocated to Warsaw ghetto
- Uprising in 1943
- Germans defined, expropriated and discriminated against Polish Jews
- Warsaw Jews had to move into ghetto
- Of 360,000-450,000 Jews in Warsaw before 1939
o 20 were left in 1945
- April 1943, still 37,000 Jews in ghetto
- 93% of Warsaw was destroyed; is has been rebuilt
Director: Roman Polanski
- Holocaust survivor
- Notable movies including:
o Chinatown
o Rosemary’s Baby
- The Pianist won 3 Oscars
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Roughly 50,000 at the end started uprising at the end when there were already many people sent to labor and death camps. When jew tried to escape through the sewers the germans flooded the sewers. Percentage of jews in poland population: 10% Germans defined, expropriated and discriminated against polish jews. Warsaw jews had to move into ghetto. Of 360,000-450,000 jews in warsaw before 1939: 20 were left in 1945. April 1943, still 37,000 jews in ghetto. 93% of warsaw was destroyed; is has been rebuilt. Notable movies including: chinatown, rosemary"s baby. Based on a memoir: death of a city, book from 1946. Countries involved in filming: germany, france, poland. Ratings/reviews: subjective, praise for realism combined with formalism, unique perspective, powerful. Radio announcement declares that uk and france would declare war on germany. Bombs being dropped while playing piano on radio. Jews were only allowed a certain amount of money: hid extra money in violin, and watch in plant pot.

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