“A Film Unfinished” is about a German film crew that was hired to film the Warsaw Ghetto. They had decided to film the largest ghetto and show what they were like. There were more than 300,000 people into a mile and a half space. The amount of emotional and physical torture the Jews went through was tremendous. My heart aches for the people who had to endure the hatred of the Germans. The films were staged to ensure others that the camps were good not bad. There were corpses on the sidewalk; people had to ignore the suffering of others in order to live. The film crew staged a lot of what they filmed. One film maker says he saw a Jew picking up bodies and taking them to the cemetery. He saw forty to fifty bodies put into a shack, and then they were taken to this mass grave filled with layers of Jews. The bodies of the deceased look like twigs, just skin and bone. Warsaw was in very bad shape. The Jews had no clue what was to happen, exterminations were planned. The Jewish shootings lasted thirty days, many had died. People starved to death and many died from illness. The Germans were questioning what had happened to the Jews and that is where the film came from. It was a complete propaganda; they only filmed the good in the ghetto. At times the true treatment of the Jews was filmed but the plan was to edit those out. The Jews believed they were going to be sent out to a work facility.
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