Uprising Page #4

all over your work?

Yes. I see that.

Then, if I may ask,

why would you have a large candelabra...

...on your desk

if it drips wax all over your work?

I have it, Nathan,

because it is good for the picture.

Stop. Stop.

Just a moment, please.

The lighting is all wrong. Look.

This one has a perfectly good Hebrew nose,

and I can't see it at all.

Commissar Auerswald,

there is talk about deportations...

...and the putting to death

of people in the camps.

Just talk. Rumors.

I can assure you,

no truth to them whatsoever.

Places, people.

Please.

Would you sit down please, in your chair?

Can we see that?

Yes, that's much better.

There's one thing though.

You are all being very still. Too still.

Jewish people normally move

their hands around when they talk.

I want to see you move your hands more.

Yes?

Let me see that.

Like this. Bigger.

And you?

Very good.

Yes, that's....

Something like that. Good. All right.

Roll camera and begin talking.

And use your hands.

-Adam.

-What?

Are you aware there's a large candelabra

in the middle of your desk?

Yes, Nathan.

You can rest assured that I am fully aware

of all that is transpiring.

The essential trait of the Jew...

...is that he always tries to hide his origin

when among non-Jews.

People!

I want you to work faster.

Wherever rats turn up...

...they carry destruction to the land,

and spreading diseases and plagues...

...just as the Jews do among mankind.

This is a conspiracy against all non-Jews...

...by a sick, deceitful, poisoned race...

...against the Aryan peoples

and their moral laws.

-Thank you, Marek.

-Enjoy your work, but do it faster!

Remember, work will make you free.

Come on, Sarah.

And for you, two work permits. All right?

Listen to me. These two cards right here

can save your life.

All Jews, regardless of sex and age,

with certain exceptions...

...are to be deported to work camps

in the East by 4:00 p.m.

Commissar Auerswald--

Today, we expect you to provide

the first contingent of 6,000 people.

This will be the minimum daily quota.

-And the children in orphanages?

-Regardless of sex and age.

-Perhaps something--

-Regardless of sex and age.

Lieutenant, I am Adam Czerniakow...

...chairman of the Jewish Council.

I have been given assurances

at the highest level...

...concerning the treatment of the children.

I fully expect those assurances

to be honored.

Kindly sign this proclamation.

I will not.

Mr. Czerniakow...

...if the deportation is impeded in any way

by you or your people...

...the consequences will be dire.

This is the beginning of an assault

on the existence of the Jewish people.

What do we do in the face of this horror?

Do we sit on our hands and wait for

the next slap in the face from the enemy?

Or do we hide within ourselves,

so that the blows don't hurt us so much?

Or maybe we lift our hands to God,

and pray for the Messiah to come.

Messiah, are you coming?

I don't think he's coming.

So what do we do?

We use our hands, our arms...

...our hearts, our lives, our deaths,

and we fight back, we resist.

If you can't fight, run. If you can't run,

then hide. But you must resist.

You must!

-Rachel! Mama!

-Tosia!

Mama, show them the permits!

-Show them!

-I did, but they didn't care!

No!

-Tosia!

-Mama!

I want to go with you!

I want to go with you!

Those of us who are willing to resist

must work together.

-We must share arms, information and--

-Mordechai.

-What?

-We must leave for Warsaw.

What is it?

We must leave now!

"They've asked me to kill the children

with my own hands.

"This I cannot do." Signed, "Adam...

"...Czerniakow."

Don't forget your diaries. There'll be

a lot of time to record your thoughts.

You said we had 15 minutes,

and we will take our 15 minutes.

And when we get to the camp...

...we will all get to see

the most beautiful...

...pine trees and birch trees.

And if there are beautiful trees,

what else will we see?

-Birds!

-Birds! Yes! That's right! And what else?

-Rabbits?

-Rabbits, yes. Very good. And?

-Squirrels.

-Squirrels. Very good, Leon!

Many, many squirrels.

Don't forget the flag.

Don't let them know that you're afraid.

Don't let them know.

Do your friends in the Bund still have

contact with the railway workers?

Yes.

-Can you make it out of the Ghetto again?

-I can try.

Go, Zygmunt, follow the trains,

and tells us definitively where they go.

Please, I am separated

from my wife and children.

Can I go find them

so we can board the train together?

-On the train.

-No, sir, please.

Take these. They are worth quite a bit.

Just give me a minute.

-Please. I beg you.

-On the train!

On the train.

Dr. Korczak. Why are you here?

You are exempt from this order.

-What about the children?

-The children must board the train.

And I will do as well.

You mustn't do this.

I won't allow you on the train.

Well, then kill me here and now

in front of the children.

Don't let me go! Let me stay with you!

Don't let me go with my parents!

Please! I'll be safe with you!

Don't let them take me away!

Get off me!

Don't let them take me away!

What is it? Where are we going?

They want workers.

But they're not taking cripples.

It's your only chance.

Quickly now, before the guard returns.

It's your only chance.

But I am a dancer.

Clara, hold your breath.

Gina was taken to the camps.

Zygmunt is back from Treblinka.

Zygmunt, it's Mordechai.

Can you tell us what you saw?

Collect yourself, and tell us.

Children, women, by the thousands...

...gassed to death in showers.

They can hide everything,

but not the stench of the dead.

This is the map of a camp of death.

This is the map of Treblinka.

There were people pleading for their lives

with this scum.

These scum.

I want their blood on my hands.

We know that Adam Czerniakow

has committed suicide.

We now know that 300,000 Warsaw Jews...

...have been either sent to Treblinka,

a death camp, or have been murdered.

For now, the deportations have ceased.

They are going to resume.

When they do, we will no longer submit.

We're going to respond

with armed resistance.

We have to use this time wisely,

to root out traitors and collaborators...

...acquire weapons,

prepare our plan of battle...

...and most importantly,

to let all who remain in the Ghetto know...

...that we can

and we will fight our enemy now!

With all the Jewish groups

finally under one banner, with one purpose.

Perhaps we can save some lives...

...or remove a few Germans

from the face of the Earth.

But this much I promise you,

we will live with honor.

And we will die with honor.

Jewish honor.

I am ashamed...

...of what I have been party to.

I am a lawyer by training.

I just wanted to save my family,

to survive like everyone else.

Now, I am ashamed to wear my uniform.

You should be ashamed.

And stop crying like a child.

I don't trust him.

-Send him on a mission.

-I don't trust him!

Send him on a mission

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