The Warsaw Ghetto Museum invites you to the fourth 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.
" ...there were sections in the walls where there were no bricks (it was still the beginning), there was barbed wire. I often saw these children walking the streets there. And later they bricked everything up so that Poles wouldn't see what was happening in the ghetto, " says Wanda Kierzkowska, née Marynowska, born in Warsaw in April 1936.
