The Warsaw Ghetto Museum invites you to watch the ninth film in the "There Was a Wall" series. November 16th marks 80 years since the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto Museum, in cooperation with the Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and with the support of its patrons, commemorates this date. The anniversary events are accompanied by the "There Was a Wall" social campaign, under the honorary patronage of the Mayor of Warsaw. The film excerpts selected by the Research Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum and published here are part of the Oral History Archive of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, which shares them with us as part of the collaboration between our institutions.
Conversations with civilians from Warsaw and Home Army veterans bring us closer to the time when Warsaw's residents were divided by the Wall in the autumn of 1940. The final sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto borders took place on November 16, 1940.
" I remember that wall, I remember the wall, it was terrible, on Chłodna Street, those two sidewalks, that brick wall ," says Wanda Kierzkowska, née Marynowska, born in Warsaw in 1936. " I remember that wooden bridge and wooden stairs, how Jews could cross from one side to the other on that bridge. It was high, I remember that clearly. Later, there was another wall somewhere. My grandfather had a printing house on Żelazna Street, his name was Ignacy Szatkowski, he had a printing house on Żelazna Street, and there was a wall somewhere nearby."
