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Originally Posted by vermicious knid
Somebody had Europa Europa on their list. I watched it last night. It is about a jewish boy in the 1940's who is pretending to be Aryan. I thought the most powerful part was when he was riding the trolley through the ghetto, and looking through the filthy window, horrified at the conditions of his own people.
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That was I. IMO it's one of the
very few excellent movies on the Holocaust. I will soon be revising a paper on it, specifically on how the makers depart from the book in just about every (biographical) detail but still promote it as a "true story."
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I did not know there had been such a thing as jewish ghettos right in the city.
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Ghettoization was a major stage in the execution of the Final Solution in eastern Europe - the Nazis did not really attempt it in the west.
The most famous one was in Warsaw, & you might remember the (really bad) David Schwimmer TV-movie, "Uprising", depicting the revolt there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_ghetto_uprising
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I thought you were either free or in a concentration camp in the country.
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It's estimated that over 2 million (of the 6 million) were executed by mobile killing squads, locals, etc. - sometimes in mass shootings into rivers or ditches, such as at Baba Yar in Ukraine, or as depicted in the otherwise weak movie,
Everything is Illuminated. Several million died in the death camps, and a smaller number in the concentration camps.
As for
Europa, Europa, there was some controversy about the refusal to enter it into the Best Foreign Film category.
Thanks for the opportunity to write about it here.
- Jake