Warsaw Ghetto Umschlagplatz
Images of the Umschlagplatz, site of deportation to Treblinka. Quotes from 'The Train Journey' by Simone Gigliotti. Music: Schubert D960, Brendel.
Note: the train loading area (or deportation area) is incorrectly labeled. The actual deportation area was adjacent to the area indicated in the video. See these URLs for details:
Umschlagplatz Memorial, Warsaw Ghetto Poland
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Warsaw Umschlagplatz Holocaust Memorial
I visited the Umschlagplatz, a Holocaust Memorial site in Warsaw. Umschlagplatz is German for collection point. Back in the Second World War, Jews in Warsaw and surrounding areas were forced to move into the Warsaw Ghetto, separating them from the rest of the population. The ghetto was overcrowded and dirty, and many Jews died of starvation and disease.
Eventually, the remaining ghetto population were gradually evicted and sent on trains bound for the Treblinka Extermination Camp under the pretext of resettlement to the east. Jews will first be gathered in the Umschlagplatz before they are packed onto cattle trains taking them to Treblinka. Virtually all of the passengers (at least the ones that did not die en route) were sent to the gas chambers on arrival.
A memorial now stands on the site, showing a number of first names of Jews which were killed.
Warsaw, Poland - Umschlagplatz
Warsaw, Poland from tourist perspective.
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Film taken mainly by German sources of the Warsaw ghetto.
The Warsaw Ghetto was established by the German Governor-General Hans Frank on 16 October 1940 and completely closed one month later. At this time, the population in the Ghetto was estimated to be 400,000 people, about 30 percent of the population of Warsaw. However, the size of the Ghetto was about 2.4% of the size of Warsaw.
You can see what it looks like today in other films I have posted here.
The Umschlagplatz in Warsaw
The Umschlagplatz (German: collection point or reloading point) was a holding area set up by Nazi Germany adjacent to a railway station in occupied Poland, where the ghettoised Jews were assembled for deportation to death camps
Śladami getta warszawskiego: Umschlagplatz
Tragiczne losy mieszkańców getta zbiegały się na Umschlagplatzu w rejonie ul. Stawki i ul. Dzikiej. Z mieszczącej się tam rampy kolejowej wyruszały transporty do obozu zagłady w Treblince.
„To tu kończyła się historia Żydów warszawskich -- mówi PAP prof. Leociak wskazując na zbudowany w 1988 r. Pomnik Umschlagplatz (ul. Stawki 4) mający bogatą symbolikę. „W jego tylnej części znajduje się szczelina, a za nią żywe drzewo; tu się splata śmierć z życiem -- tłumaczy znawca tematyki Holokaustu.
Warsaw ghetto : Umschlagplatz
This is the Umschagplatz of the Warsaw ghetto - the point of no return to the death camp at Treblinka.
Train Route Umschlagplatz to Treblinka
Topographical analysis of possible train routes leading from the Warsaw Ghetto Umschlagplatz, across the Vistula, to Wołomin, 1942-1943.
Note - In the referenced interview, Nechama Epstein-Kozlowski indicates she jumped from a train she believed was heading to Treblinka. She indicates she had jumped somewhere near Radzin, Lukow, and Miedzyrzec. This could possibly mean that she was on a transport of Warsaw Ghetto inhabitants to another ghetto, to another killing center, or proceeding to Treblinka via Lukow and/or Siedlce.
Part of Warsaw ghetto wall
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The Warsaw Ghetto was established by the Nazi German Governor-General Hans Frank on October 16, 1940. At this time, the population in the Ghetto was estimated to be 4,000 people, about 10 percent of the population of Warsaw. However, the size of the Ghetto was about 4.5% of the size of Warsaw. The ghetto was split into two areas, the small ghetto, generally inhabited by richer Jews and the large ghetto, where conditions were difficult. The two ghettos were linked by a single footbridge {See footbridge at [2]}. The Nazis then closed the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world on November 16, 1940, building a wall with armed guards.
During the next year and a half, thousands of the Polish Jews as well as some Romani people from smaller cities and the countryside were brought into the Ghetto, while diseases (especially typhus) and starvation kept the inhabitants at about the same number. Average food rations in 1941 for Jews in Warsaw were limited to 1184 kcal, compared to 1669 kcal for gentile Poles and 2,614 kcal for Germans.
Unemployment was a major problem in the ghetto. Illegal workshops were created to manufacture goods to be sold illegally on the outside and raw goods were smuggled in often by children. Hundreds of four to five year old Jewish children went across en masse to the Aryan side, sometimes several times a day, smuggling food into the ghettos, returning with goods that often weighed more than they did. Smuggling was often the only source of subsistence for Ghetto inhabitants, who would otherwise have died of starvation. Despite the grave hardships, life in the Warsaw Ghetto was rich with educational and cultural activities, conducted by its underground organizations. Hospitals, public soup kitchens orphanages, refugee centers and recreation facilities were formed, as well as a school system. Some schools were illegal and operated under the guise of a soup kitchen. There were secret libraries, classes for the children and even a symphony orchestra. The life in the ghetto was chronicled by the Oyneg Shabbos group.
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There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focussing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine!
In 1997 I founded Polish Business News .There are a number of business related films here and I intend to do many more on CRM (customer relations management).
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Monument to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie) was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany.
Poland: Warsaw, Royal Route (Part 1)
Warsaw ... is not the cold and dead city it used to be under communism's rule. Today with bustling Polish economy and freedom from communist rule - the city has undergone a huge transformation process. Many old communist buildings gave way to modern sky scrapers, dilapidating old town was restored, entertainment and services transformed to match that of other western capitals. Crime rate is lower than that of big cities in the United States. Today Warsaw boasts GDP per capita more than 85% of European Union average.
Marshall (Marszalkowska) Street in Warsaw ... Rebuilding of Warsaw after World War II coincided with emergence of socialist realism. The facades of many buildings in this area show the uninspired architecture style of the communist area. Buildings are generally dull and it is difficult to distinguish one building from the other. However this area shows the remnants of Warsaw's communist past and in that sense it is very interesting. In the heart of Warsaw is the Palace of Culture. This monolithic building was a gift from the Soviet Union to Warsaw. It was built in 1955 to the design of a Russian architect and resembles Moscow high-rises. Although it has only 30 stories - it was Europe's second largest building at that time.
The Royal Route (Nowy Swiat) ... extends from Plac Zamkowy (Castle Square) in Stare Miasto to the end of Krakowskie Przedmiescie and Nowy Swiat (basically the same long street) at rondo Ch. de Gaulle. Along both streets one can admire buildings that are predominantly Neo-Classical in style as well as many churches and palaces. Nowy Swiat and Krakowskie Przedmiescie also feature many exclusive cafes, restaurants, stores and fashionable boutiques. Nowy Swiat is great for walks as part of the street is closed for traffic. In middle ages this area was occupied by Warsaw's wealthiest residents. The area suffered during the Swedish invasion in 1655 but it was soon rebuilt.
Umschlagplatz
Where the train took the Jews to the camps
Umschlagplatz w Warszawie
Bardzo amatorska próba zrobienia krótkometrażowego filmu o historii i dzisiejszym dniu Umschlagplatz, czyli miejsca, z którego wywożono do obozów zagłady Żydów z warszawskiego getta. Muzyka: Mathieu Lamontagne/Emmanuel Toledo Leitmotivs. Film kręcony z ręki kamerą Canon HF10 i aparatem cyfrowym Sony HX9V (ujęcia z wiaduktu ul. Powązkowskiej i Popiełuszki).
Warszawa: Miasto Podzielone (Warsaw: A City Divided) - trailer | 16. Millennium Docs Against Gravity
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Warszawa: miasto podzielone
(Warsaw: A City Devided)
Polska / Poland, 2019, 70 min.
Reżyseria / Directed by: Eric Bednarski
Rok 1941. Warszawa. Młody Polak, ryzykując życiem, kręci amatorski film ukazujący rzeczywistość po obu stronach muru warszawskiego getta. Odnalezienie taśmy po latach jest pretekstem dla reżysera, by wrócić do wydarzeń wyrwania i odgrodzenia części miasta, eksterminacji mieszkańców i destrukcji. Przejmujący archiwalny materiał, jedyny do tej pory nienazistowski i niepropagandowy dokument z tamtego miejsca, wpleciony w film, staje się niemym świadkiem tragedii. Równolegle widzimy sceny z życia nowoczesnej metropolii, w której ślady ran sprzed 75 lat wciąż są namacalne i widoczne.
The creation of the Warsaw Ghetto as seen from both sides of the Ghetto wall, and its legacy in today’s city. New light on a tragic time of division, destruction and mass murder, incorporating unknown amateur Polish 8mm found footage and survivor testimony.
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Warsaw Umschlagplatz 70th anniversary of the start of ghetto liquidation
Warsaw. Warszawa. the 70th anniversary of the start of Jewish ghetto liquidation by German Nazis on 22.July 1942. Umschlagplatz. Reading Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet -as 22.July 1942 was the Jewish holiday Tisha B'av. Hundreds of Polish people came to Umschlagplatz to pay tribute and remember ca. 300 thousands Jews who were sent by Germans from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka death camp during World War 2.. (by Marta, Warsaw tour guide at VisitingWarsaw.com)
Umschagplatz in Warsaw
The Warsaw Umschlagplatz - the point of departure for Treblinka.
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There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focussing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine!
Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region. Every packaging trade fair is a new excuse to make another film!
In 1997 I founded Polish Business News .There are a number of business related films here and I intend to do many more on CRM (customer relations management).
My blog can be found via and and contains background information and more details of many of my films. This information is in English.
Warsaw Ghetto: A survivor's tale
Janina Dawidowicz was a nine-year-old girl when World War II engulfed Poland. As Jews, she and her family were soon driven into the Warsaw Ghetto, but she later escaped and remains one of its few survivors.
The extermination of the Jews of Poland began 70 years ago.
On the morning of 22 July 1942, Nazi soldiers marched the first group of 6,000 Jews held in the Warsaw Ghetto to the railway sidings, the Umschlagplatz, and put them on trains to the Treblinka gas facility.
Janina Dawidowicz, born in 1930, is one of the few people who lived in the ghetto and survived. She recalls the posters going up, ordering residents to report to the Umschlagplatz at 11 o'clock. Any one disobeying would be shot.
Many people, she says, lined up willingly. The Germans told residents that they were being sent to labour camps in eastern Poland where they could escape the misery. What is more, there would be handouts of free food.
People were offered, I think, two loaves of bread, some margarine or some sugar if they reported to Umschlagplatz. Nobody could imagine that you were going straight into a gas chamber.
The first to go were those with the least power to resist - the old, the ill and the under-12s.
They included, from Janina's apartment, a fragile young woman called Rachel. She had once shown 11-year-old Janina her carefully-stored wedding outfit - a satin skirt and white blouse. When Rachel did not come home and Janina found her trousseau missing, she understood where Rachel had gone.
Our landlord and landlady went next. They took all their kitchen stuff - pots and pans, large bundles tied up in a sheet, back and front, they could hardly walk. But they went. They waved goodbye and promised to write when they arrived in the East.''
The ghetto had been created as a holding pen for Jews in November 1940. The large Jewish population of Warsaw - a third of the city - was confined to a tiny area, where they were walled in.
They were joined by tens of thousands of Jews from other parts of Poland, Hungary and other German-occupied countries.
You heard every language in the street, remembers Janina. Yiddish, Polish, Hungarian, German.
Janina and her well-to-do family came from the city of Kalisz.
I was an only child watched over very carefully by a nanny - frightfully well brought up - white gloves to play in the park! My mother had been to finishing school in Zurich... she could not boil an egg when the war started.
Janina and her parents squeezed into a tiny room, so damp that I could write sums on the wall, and the sheets had to be dried before bedtime. They cooked on sawdust between two bricks, and fetched water from a communal tap. Food was bread mixed with sawdust and potatoes, rationed to 108 calories per day.
Janina's cousin Rosa had a lively toddler, who slowly starved to death. Like thousands of ghetto children, Cousin Rosa's little boy stopped walking, shriveled and died.
Desperate for a wage, Janina's father Marek got a job in the Jewish Law and Order service - the Jewish police.
The service was often reviled as a tool of Nazi policy, along with the Jewish administration. But at the time, the job seemed to hold out the best chance of keeping the family alive until the end of the war. Marek escorted cartloads of rubble out of the ghetto, and smuggled in small amounts of food.
Families tried fiercely to maintain a semblance of ordinary life between 1940 and 1942.
There were tremendous efforts to run community soup kitchens and look after orphans whose parents had starved to death, or died of the diseases that raged in the ghetto.
Many children like Janina attended illegal schools, risking instant execution for teachers and pupils if discovered.
There were choirs, physics lectures and cabaret shows to raise money for social services. Classes were held in every conceivable skill from cookery to paper-flower making.
A symphony orchestra played at the theatre, complete with the stars of the music that all Warsaw had danced to before the war.
The Polish record company, Electro-Syrena, had been Jewish-owned and had produced hundreds of hits before 1939. Now, musicians and technicians alike lived in the ghetto - jazz men like the Gold brothers, Henryk and Artur, who'd run the famous Adria night club.
All they had to do was outlast the war, people told themselves, and life would continue - perhaps not as before, but at least in some form.
My mother, my grandmother would say: 'Oh, we need new curtains in the living room,' Janina remembers.
The carpets! We'll get Sophie and Stephanie in to give us a hand. No-one believed it would go on. France had fallen, but there was England and the USSR and America - there was a whole world. Of course it was going to end.
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Ghetto Heroes Monument, Warsaw Poland
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