Another section of the Ghetto had died.
The survivors hid, awaiting the night
and a brief reprieve.
But each day was a new trial.
They had to find food
In the survival game, some had more luck than others.
Stand up. Hands on heads.
Don't move. Take them.
The peasant and the Snow princess , lived happily ever after
Why do these stories make me fall asleep instead of them?
Maybe you're not as grown-up as you think.
Tonight, I feel a 100 years old.
Come on. Kiss Mummy, and off to bed.
- Mum, I'll wait for Dad. - I wait for you, okay?
I see him so little. He'll give you a kiss when he gets here.
It's me, David.
Bad news, Martin.
It's my father?
- There was a raid. - Where is he?
He's on a train going East.
Good luck, Martin.
What is it?
Martin!
- What is it? - Nothing.
Tell me!
Was it daddy?
Just David.
Daddy's very busy,
He won't be able to kiss you tonight.
Well then, tell us another story.
You go to bed. I'll empty this.
Martin!
Tell me the truth!
I forgot this.
AUTUMN 1942
Come out. Everyone out!
Come on, hurry.
Out! Out!
Search the houses.
Back! Back!
Don't cry, Mum. I'm here.
To the central square. Forwards, march!
Come down all
Everyone out!
Men, left. Women and children, right.
- Out! - Outside
All Jews out!
Right. Left.
Women will not work!
- Get back! - Martin!
Go left!
Women and children, right.
Form two rows.
Men, left.
Women and children, left.
form two lines.
Mum!
Go to the showers.
Leave clothes and bags.
Leave papers here.
- What's happening here? - Watch for the whips.
Here!
Remove your clothes Go to the showers.
New work clothes will be issued later.
- Soldier! - To the showers!
Get all this sorted.
Clothing, hats and shoes. Everything separate. Get to work!
Don't forget they have to leave all their things.
Watch your face. A scar means death. Klepssuda.
Halt
Open your mouth!
Spit!
Jewish pig!
Thief!
Over there!
Klepssuda! Move!
I don't want to die!
What are you doing?
What do you think?
That's what they want. We must live to tell the world.
At least get revenge!
Come on, get to work!
PARADISE STREET
Open the doors!
Let's get to work!
to work!
Work
Faster, Jews pigs. Idiots!
If you slack, I'll help you rest.
Idiots!
Idiots! Don't dawdle!
Get moving!
Zachariah!
You! Take his place!
Why didn't you check their mouths, Jew?
Little children don't have gold teeth.
That's logical
Don't forget that. Jew pig!
Work!
Are you sick?
Any scars?
There's no mark.
- Tell the truth. I won't kill myself. - There's nothing.
I swear to you.
I know you.
You're Mietek.
The smuggler from the Ghetto.
I am Moishe.
Do you remember my father?
Grajewski. He come here. Have you seen him?
Thousands come to Treblinka
most die in the first 10 minutes.
Abraham is here.
In the kitchen.
- Who? - Abraham ...
The Cafe Sztuka?
I puit a word in for you with the Kapo.
Abraham?
Abraham, you have a new helper.
And for Mietek? A table near the band?
I saved these. I'm sorry, no cream, no herring.
Eat.
Quick!
Did you see my father here?
Have I seen my mother?
Who knows where the dead are?
Eat, boy, eat.
Men, left. Women and children, right.
- What's going on? - It's OK, it's OK.
Keep your clothes on!
Don't undress!
I'm a Catholic. I'm not Jewish
I'm not Jewish
Take the Jews!
Look!
I converted! I'm...
You should remember me.
You can open it.
Now we're even.
Long ago, in the Ghetto, my daughter was in the street.
She was cold, hungry, you gave her some cakes.
I remember.
- Golgolewsky's bakery. - That's right.
They were the last she ate.
I am grateful to you, Mietek.
You knew my father?
Can I ask one more thing?
If I can.
You! Put that down. You look tired.
Good luck to you, Mietek.
Mr. Gray
In Treblinka ...
I was a man trapped.
Under sentence of death.
Now I was free, I had to forget. Learn to life again.
Later would be time enough for remembering.
I crossed fields and forests. I walked, ran, lived like an animal.
I found Jews, who thought they were free.
When I told them about the death camps, they wouldn't listen
I learned later they died there.
Sometimes the Poles hunted me.
sometimes they hid me.
But I survived.
MARCH 1943
In Russia, the butchers were about to lose the war.
at Stalingrad.
Thanks to Polish partisans I returned to Warsaw,
using fake papers.
I'm Mietek.
Mietek?
Mietek!
You're alive!
Thank God!
Yours or mine?
You're so thin!
Mietek!
Come in!
Tell me everything, Mietek.
There's not much to say!
Everyone's dead.
They didn't die in vain.
Your people are fighting back.
They're killing Germans in the Ghetto.
If Jews were fighting in the Ghetto, my place was with them.
You can go back now.
Halt
Good luck, Mietek
Fifty thousand Jews had survived the deportations.
Despite the Nazis' fury and the world's indifference.
The greatest danger to the Nazis is from the chimneys of Warsaw.
General Stroop, is ordered to 'clean' the Ghetto
It will be a bloody battle
but we have our faith. We fight not for our own lives,
but the value of life itself. Not to avoid death
but to choose the way we die.
The longer we resist, the the longer the world must..
...hear our voice. Our day has come. If we can just
resist one week, then our voice will live forever.
My father had also survived. He jumped off the train,
before reaching Treblinka.
Only life is sacred, Martin.
But survival itself, makes no sense.
it's ... It's who you survive for that matters.
Remember that.
One day you'll have children. Give them all of you. Because children...
...are our future. Like you, you are mine.
Ah, the future!
One day, you'll go to New York, see your grandmother.
She loves you very much.
I can't think why, she only saw you once and
you pissed in her lap.
But whenever she wrote, she's want pictures.
So you see?
You're her future too.
Go and see her!
She and mum were very close.
The days were spent preparing for what would be our uprising.
The butchers no longer dared venture into the Ghetto.
Our combat unit, the OJC
ruled the Ghetto for now.
Confrontation was inevitable.
Don't listen to the agitators!
They won't give you work.
Or feed your children.
But I will!
Come and work in our new factories outside Warsaw
in Poniatowa.
There, you'll have work and food.
Even schools for your children.
I give you my word.
Work,
and bread. And you'll survive the war.
The evening before Monday 19th April 1943 ...
large forces of Polish and German police,
surrounded the walls of the Jewish Quarter.
Families took refuge in bunkers that we built.
At dawn, SS-General Stroop sent in his elite troops.
19th APRIL 1943.
Grajewski
Yes?
Commander's orders. Don't fire until the Germans reach the crossroad.
Did you hear?
Go on!
Fire at will!
Get back! Back!
Don't shoot.
The street is ours! The street is ours!
They coming back!
Inside! Inside!
Hey! Wake up!
I want you to take this message to HQ
On my way.
Martin
Take care, son.
You're all I have
That's all I ask. Don't get yourself killed.
Don't worry.
The 2nd day of the uprising, at the other end of the Ghetto, the factory sector ...
where many Jews worked was still quiet.
'The Mila sector needs ammunition'. Shameka, David, organise it.
There they are. They're coming!
We want a cease fire for 15 minutes to collect our dead
and our wounded!
And to give you time to come to your senses.
If you surrender, there will be no reprisals against Jews.
You will be evacuated to a work camp at Poniatowa.
Withdraw! Get to the Swintorjerska bunker!
Get back!
Martin! Your father isn't here. He left earlier with a group.
- Where to? - To HQ at the brush factory.
I come from, exactly.
Jews, surrender. Come out if you want to live.
Surrender Jews, if you come out we'll let you live.
Come out if you want to live.
Victory!
I will live! For all of you.
And you will live in the memories of men.
I swear it.
Those who were not killed, or executed, were deported.
The fighting lasted an entire month.
The butchers blew up the buildings
and razed the Ghetto.
Take care of yourself, Martin. I don't want you to die.
Don't worry. They missed their chance.
They won't catch me again..
- Make them pay dearly, Mietek. - I will. Thank you both.
For everything!
Remember, we both love you very much. Marie especially.
Goodbye Mietek.
I never saw them again Goodbye Mokotow. Goodbye Marie.
I'll never forget you.
I had left to fight with the Polish partisans.
When I returned, it was late summer, 1944.
It was in the NKVD, a Lieutenant in the Red Army
charged with hunting down Nazi collaborators.
Already we were driving towards Germany. The Polish people ...
who had fled the fighting, were returning home.
Not happy Mietek?
Don't forget...
Our victory is yet to come.
Execute them! Execute them!
Quick! Quick! Quick!
Wait a minute! Wait.
To Berlin! To Berlin! To Berlin!
BORDER
Vengeance was bitter.
We found a frightened coountry. The Germans
who considered themselves a master race, were broken and pathetic.
Can you print a poster?
I need posters by tomorrow morning. And you'll put them up.
Write!
"All Aryans, over 16, are hereby ordered
to wear a swastika armband.
within city limits, this is mandatory". Sign it 'Russian Authorities'.
Don't forget.
Lieutenant! Lieutenant, wake up! They're going crazy.
Nazi Pigs
It's a provocation! Shoot them all.
That's enough.
Hey, soldier!
Go on!
Take off the armbands. You can go now.
Go home.
Just like in the Ghetto.
They know how it feels.
Like us.
BERLIN - MAY 1945
I entered Berlin on my 20th birthday.
It was the final assault against the butchers.
With my comrades, I was there to finish the fight ...
that had started in the Ghetto.
But this time, the tanks, were on our side.
You swore allegiance to Hitler?
Yes.
I saw boys like you, shooting at our soldiers.
Did you do that?
So what did you do when we were fighting in the streets?
I was hiding in our basement with my mother.
Sign it.
So, Misha? What have we got?
Children, Sir.
The Führer called them Werewolves
They all swore allegiance.
Which makes them war criminals in our eyes.
But I think most of them didn't know what they were doing.
Children, but Nazi children. They would have glady killed us.
You didn't win medals fighting little lambs.
We weren't at war with lambs. So you can't make peace with them.
They need to understand they're beaten. Once and for all.
Misha, rumour is there are beautiful furs coats in Leipzig
Not for ourselves. But for our wives maybe...
You're Jewish. Jews are smart, so be smart
and find me those furs.
Yes sir.
Jurek?
He just condemned a dozen kids, and he's having fun.
Halt!
Load
Aim
Ready, fire!
No!
Mietek!
Mietek
- Mietek, I caught Schultz! - Fat Shultz, from the Ghetto?
What do you want?
Don't hurt me.
What do you want?
Come to see you, Schultz.
Come here!
Do you recognize me, Schultz?
Remember the Central Square?
You're Jews!
I tried to always protect you. I gave you jobs.
But I had orders too.
Quotas to meet.
I didn't know where the trains went...
Nobody told me.
Please Lieutenant, pay me something, no matter what,
but something...
Mietek
They've released Schultz. He's going to work for them.
It's impossible!
I was there.
- I'll speak to the Colonel. - It won't do any good.
You were right Mietek. They're stealing our revenge.
There's nothing for us here.
- I'll talk to the Colonel, he'll listen. - No, Mietek. Goodbye!
I'm leaving.
Good luck
You had Warsaw, we had Stalingrad.
Don't count the dead with me, Misha.
We also had Treblinka Dachau, Auschwitz and Majdanek,
I know. I know all that. Thank you.
There were Russians in those camps too. The trouble with you Jews...
I'm sorry, Misha, but it's true, you take the war...
so personally. I want the top Nazis, and Schultz knows them.
He'll give me names and testify.
But Schultz is a war criminal!
That's debatable. I would say more an opportunist than criminal.
The Red Army had taken me to Berlin.
I had fought for them, we were even.
But they sidetracked my revenge.
We parted ways. I deserted.
Go through customs at the end of the ramp
Okay, okay. Keep it moving.
All right, soldier.
- Are you a Communist? - Just a Jew.
A Polish Jew.
Martin? My little Martin!
Let him through, please.
I knew it! I knew it was you.
You're so like your mother. Like the pictures she sent.
You're a man now.
Come in, Martin!
You're home now.
You must be hungry. Put your things away.
Your room is there, and the bathroom is next door, if you want to freshen up.
You'll see your uncle tonight.
He's got you a job in his shop.
Martin
I made you a cholet
you like that?
I'll teach your wife. When you marry and have children...
And you will, Martin. I want to be a great-grandmother!
I never met David!
Or Jeremy!
Why were they killed? Why?
I worked. I worked furiously.
it was the only way...
I could bury my past.
Over the years, I finally managed it.
Luck was with me.
I'd become a rich American.
But, I was still alone.
Until the day I met Dina.
Maybe we'll see each other again. I must go to Holland soon.
I have to go to Germany tomorrow.
Thank you, Martin.
I'm glad I met you.
Wait!
For my apartment. In case you want to use it.
While I'm gone.
Do you like children?
I'd love to have them with a man like you.
I wanted my own family and I finally had one.
For ten years, day after day, we built our happiness ...
in the South of France,
not far from the sea, under the hills of Taneron.
Arrival of Air France flight 22, from New York, gate eight.
It was yesterday, Saturday. A fierce wind had risen,
it hadn't rained for months and farmers were suffering.
3rd OCTOBER 1970 .
What a wind!
- Can you get home alright, Lelli? - Yes, the wind will push me.
- Good Weekend! - Thank you.
- Until Monday. You too. - Bye, Lelli!
Michelle and Martin
Does anyone want more?
No, thank you.
Good
I think he's happy.
It's because he's eating.
And because he's home.
And because it has "quesaco."
It is said "coat" with a C is not "quesaco."
I'm happy because we're all here in our house, and I have ...
nothing else to do but enjoy these moments.
And keep your promise to mum.
You know why we built you an office.
The window!
- Mum! - Fire. The oil tank.
- I want to see, Daddy. - No! Stay with mum.
Hey, stay here with me.
Come on Richard.
- What do we do, Mum? - Let's get to the car!
I'm taking the kids!
Come on, jump. Quick!
Go to Mandelieu. I'll meet you there.
I'll see if Lelli's OK.
Mandelieu!
Come on, jump.
'Martin, you must look after yourself'
'All life is sacred.'
'Remember that!'
'But survival alone, has no value.'
'It's who we survive for, that is important.'
'One day you'll have children. Give them all of you.'
'Because children are our future.'
'Just as you are mine.'
Years later, Martin Grayewski created a new family.
He remains a witness against the
barbarism of the executioners. His life is an inspiration to us all.