A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell

A German soldier's clandestine photographs of the 1941 Warsaw Ghetto are difficult viewing but essential primary history. Why this film remains so rarely available is beyond me. I saw it on Public TV years ago, I think that was during the 50th anniversary of the liberation of some of the concentration camps. The film is apparently shown at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, although I did not notice the film offered for view on either of my visits there. I was able to see the film again only recently, through a friend's academic link. Despite the passage of decades from my first viewing, I remembered many of the photographs clearly. The voiceovers are excerpts from contemporaneous diaries that somehow survived, and like the photographs, they are unforgettable.