This video is part of the Holocaust Education Video Toolbox. For more videos and teaching aids, visit: [ Ссылка ]


The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto under Nazi rule, housing at its peak as many as 450,000 Jews. In this film Sheryl Silver-Ochayon presents the study unit for high school ages, "Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto -- 1941", designed at the International School for Holocaust Studies. By juxtaposing rare photos taken by a Nazi soldier in the ghetto during 1941 with testimony and documentation of Jews, we get a deeper picture of the life and death within the ghetto walls.

Sheryl Silver-Ochayon is a staff member at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem.


Part 1: Using the Study Unit "Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto - 1941" in the Classroom
Part 2: Historical Background
Part 3: Overcrowding
Part 4: Day-to-Day Life and Survival
Part 5: Welfare and Mutual Aid
Part 6: The "Badge of Shame" and Cultural Life
Part 7: Conclusion

Archival footage and photographs:

Yad Vashem Photo Archive.
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Bundesfilmarchiv/Transit Film GmbH.
Footage of Rudolf Bohlmann used with the kind permission of Eginhard Teichmann.


Every effort has been made to locate the copyright holders to obtain the appropriate permissions and apply the correct attributions. If you have any information that would help us in relation to copyright, please contact us at internet.education@yadvashem.org.il.

Film produced by Mikooka Productions - www.mikooka.com.
The Holocaust Education Video Toolbox is supported through the generosity of Jan and Rick Cohen, USA.

свернуть