Uprising Page #8

We must have something other

than our fists, and bricks...

...and our unbreakable will.

Immediately!

You take no risk.

And if you fail to act,

our blood will be on your hands.

Mommy!

Mommy!

Hands up!

-Hands up!

-Check the holes!

Take your clothes off.

Right now, hands up!

Your plan sounds reasonable.

Your reports to Himmler make it seem

as if things were going well.

-But they aren't now, are they?

-Gen. Kruger...

...within a short while, the Jewish sector

of Warsaw will be no more.

Every building will have been razed

to the ground.

Then we will bring these vermin

to the surface or bury them.

"A short while"?

This little group of bandits

have held off the German military...

...for longer than

the entire country of Poland.

Is that "a short while"?

It would make your job and mine easier...

...if your reports weren't so optimistic...

...and our casualties were...

...shall we say, less.

To be perfectly blunt.

Jan.

No luck.

The Poles won't give us

any more weapons. And you?

None.

Any word from Tosia?

The others are secure. Follow me.

-Where?

-There's a bunker at Miliatin.

-These are your fighters, Kazik?

-Yes.

Okay, go.

Schmuel Asher. Mordechai Anielewicz.

-Hello.

-Hi.

I've heard about you and your group.

Now...

...let me show you around

my basement empire.

Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor.

And there is Mauthausen.

We have running water.

We have electricity.

It's too hot,

and the dust is horrible for my allergies.

Good to see you.

Come on, I show you something, guys.

There are five entrances and five exits.

They come in handy in my line of work.

This way.

Who's winning?

Whatever is ours is yours.

Not really everything.

Tuvia was unable to get to Yitzhak

via the sewers.

-I'll go.

-Not until your ankle heals.

Kazik, I want you to go.

And bring Zygmunt with you.

That's perfect. Tuvia couldn't make it,

so we send Kazik.

-What makes you think we can succeed?

-You're going to go through the tunnel.

-What tunnel?

-The tunnel at Muranowska.

There's a tunnel there

for special occasions.

The question is:
How safe is it?

-Yes, that's a good question.

-Yes, it's risky, but worth it.

If Yitzhak found guns and supplies,

we can hold off a while longer.

Even if he hasn't, it's critical

to find a way in and out of the Ghetto.

We are playing cat and mouse

with Stroop and his men.

We can't hold off forever.

Yesterday, we were seeking

safe passage to Palestine.

Today, we seek safe passage

across the street.

Our world has gotten pretty small.

Luck.

Luck.

Go. Make me proud.

Make yourself proud.

Let's go, Romeo.

I am instructing Zivia and Marek

to assemble a small squad.

Their mission will be to find an exit out

of the Ghetto through the sewer canals.

This will be difficult, if not impossible,

as we know.

The maze of canals is vast and confusing.

Those who wish to leave

will be given the opportunity.

Those who wish to stay, will do so.

Perhaps it will be possible...

...to connect with the partisans

in the forest to continue our fight.

Perhaps not.

Throughout our difficult struggle...

...we have been determined

to preserve one choice:

How we die.

Whether it be here, in an airless bunker,

or elsewhere...

...I don't know.

But I can assure you of one thing:

The spirit of our deaths....

The spirit of our deaths will shape

the soul of a new generation...

...a new nation of Jews.

All right.

-Let us wish Zivia and Marek luck.

-Luck!

And we continue.

-You're a sight for sore eyes.

-So are you.

And Julian?

He's our best marksman.

No! Kazik, it's all right!

Tell me.

-Something is not right.

-What?

The level of fighting has decreased.

They only attack us at night.

They are playing possum.

The Gestapo's informer has told us

where the command bunker is.

And this time, I think it's accurate.

That is good news, isn't it?

Too good.

Too easy.

-Is your ankle better?

-Yes.

If you wish to go with the others, you can.

It's up to you.

I'd rather stay here and fight

with you and Arie, if that's all right.

It's all right.

Where are the sewer workers?

I don't know what happened.

They were paid to guide us.

But they haven't shown up.

We need to go now.

This is far too dangerous for you.

No. We are going into the Ghetto tonight.

If not through the sewers, over the wall.

Are you out of your mind?

We have no chance to survive

without a plan.

Nor do the fighters,

if we don't get them out now!

How will we do that

if we get shot getting in?

-I am going.

-How do you intend to get them out?

Are you with me or not?

We have no chance to succeed

without a Polish guide...

...to take us in the sewers and out again.

Do you see a guide? Do you?

There is no sewer worker!

-Are you with me or not?

-I will go with you, Yitzhak.

You two can make

your own funeral arrangements.

I will not carry your coffin.

I will accompany you, but he makes sense.

Maybe we should try again tomorrow

with the Poles.

We can't rely on the Poles, Frania.

We can't rely on anyone else to get us in!

Zivia, when you get down to the sewers,

go left.

And let's hope for the best.

I will cover your escape.

Go, before you forget why you are leaving.

We will be back.

Goodbye, Zachariah.

Come on, you're already a day late.

-Let's go!

-Follow me.

Tell our friends to keep their spirits up.

-Charming.

-This way.

I just wish we had more weapons

and ammunition.

It would be really something.

What is it?

I had the most ridiculous dream.

It was so vivid.

I was sleeping and...

...your sister, Gina, came and woke me up.

She took me outside...

...to this beautiful garden.

And there were grapes and nuts and figs.

It's very biblical.

Then she took me to a basket.

And there was a baby inside it.

And she said that...

...he was mine.

My child.

Then I took him and...

...I held him in my arms.

Tell me the history of The Eternal Jew.

How did this film of yours come to be?

Goebbels commissioned it.

It was his idea, his pet project.

He felt that the Germans

weren't anti-Semitic enough.

It didn't come as easy to them

as, say, the Poles, or the French...

...or even the English.

The film was

the psychological underpinning...

...of the Fuhrer's plan for racial purity.

Why do you think these Jewish women

are such ferocious fighters?

Desperation?

But I have never witnessed this before.

I saw one woman shot several times,

and, as she was dying, she cursed me...

...in a language that was beyond vile.

-I can't get the image out of my mind.

-Maybe you're bewitched?

Here's to a good bewitching.

Halt!

Check that tunnel.

See if it's passable, Mira.

Tosia, down there.

Devorah?

Down there, Julian.

They can't have found all five exits.

Hurry!

It's completely blocked.

Mira!

-No. It's not safe.

-Julian?

It's clear.

We can make it out of the sewer.

Maybe there's a way to the sewers

through the sewer wall.

-That way?

-Yes.

-Tosia, go in and see if this is possible.

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