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What happened here

Besieged and bombed in September 1939, Warsaw surrendered on 28 September. The Germans sealed some 400,000 Jews into a ghetto in November 1940 and in the summer of 1942 deported about 265,000 of them from the Umschlagplatz to Treblinka. The ghetto rose in April 1943. On 1 August 1944 the Home Army launched the Warsaw Uprising; after 63 days it was crushed, and the city razed.

Films and series set in Warsaw

  1. Must-watch

    The Pianist

    2002 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. City

      Szpilman is playing Chopin live on the air when German bombs hit the radio building.

    2. City

      The family is forced behind the ghetto wall, where Szpilman plays in a café for the privileged while people starve on the pavement outside.

    3. Camp

      At the loading square a Jewish policeman pulls Szpilman out of the crowd while his family is pushed into the cattle cars.

    4. Home

      Hidden in a flat facing a German hospital, he watches the Home Army attack in the street below and has to flee when a tank shells the building.

    5. City

      Starving in an attic of the razed city, Szpilman is found by a German officer who asks him to play the piano.

  2. Kanał

    1957 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. Battle

      Lieutenant Zadra's exhausted company takes up a new position in the ruins and is then ordered into the sewers.

    2. On the road

      Underground the group splits up; some wander in circles, others reach exits blocked by bars or booby traps.

    3. City

      One officer climbs out of a manhole into daylight, straight into the hands of German soldiers.

  3. Warsaw 44

    2014 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. Battle

      In the first days Stefan's unit captures a German depot and helps free Jewish prisoners from a labour camp.

    2. Battle

      Wounded and in shock, Stefan is dragged by Ala through the bombed Old Town and down into the sewers.

    3. Battle

      Stefan and Kama fight beside Polish soldiers who crossed the river from the Soviet side, in a hopeless riverside pocket.

    4. City

      After the surrender Stefan wanders through a burning city and swims out to a sandbank in the river.

  4. The Zookeeper's Wife

    2017 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. Home

      Bombs tear through the zoo; soon the Żabińskis' villa and empty enclosures fill with hidden 'guests' from the ghetto.

    2. Camp

      Jan watches children loaded onto cattle cars and offers a way out to Janusz Korczak, who will not leave his orphans.

    3. Home

      With Jan missing after the uprising, Antonina has to protect her last guests as the Germans evacuate the city.

  5. World on Fire

    2019–2023 · Series

    Here in the story

    1. City

      Harry Chase, a translator at the British embassy, falls for Kasia just before German bombs begin to fall on the city.

Events at Warsaw

  1. Holocaust

    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    When the SS entered to deport the remaining Jews, fighters of the ghetto took up arms and held out for almost a month. The Germans burned the ghetto block by block; it was the largest Jewish revolt of the Holocaust.

    Read more on Wikipedia

  2. Battle

    Warsaw Uprising

    The Polish Home Army rose against the German occupiers to liberate Warsaw before the Red Army arrived. Without outside help, it was crushed after 63 days; between 150,000 and 200,000 civilians died and the Germans razed the city.

    Read more on Wikipedia

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