Warsaw Ghetto Video Response

Watching the video on the Warsaw Ghetto was very disturbing. The video was made to show what the Germans wanted people think the Jews went through on a day to day basis in the ghetto, but in reality, it was much worse. They staged many scenes with the Jews acting more content and comfortable in their environment than they were sure to be. The film makers would have many takes of scene to try and make it look as realistic as they could. They even filmed the Jews walking down the streets who seemed not to care at all that they were walking over and around dead bodies; they were everywhere. It is impossible to watch something like that and not feel completely sick at your stomach. From shootings to starving, people were dying so rapidly that it was unreal. There was no food to spare, no nourishment at all. These people were so thin that they looked like they could just fall over any minute, and so many of them did. When the Germans finally removed the deceased bodies from the streets, they would carelessly pick them up and throw them in to a wooden box. The Germans took mass amounts of dead bodies to a big “grave” and just dumped the corpses on top of each other, piling with no limits. Each of these bodies was like skin and bones, nothing to them. Staging scenes throughout the ghetto was simply a way for the Germans to cover up evidence of all that was going on behind the scenes. I cannot even begin to imagine how the Jews living in the ghetto felt. The fact that one human could even do these things to another is so sickening. The video definitely opened my eyes even more to what ghettos in the holocaust were like. I cannot even begin to imagine being one of the survivors and looking back on these videos.