A film unfinished - response summary

In "A Film Unfinished" it shows the horrible truth about the Warsaw ghetto. This film was very disturbing to me , but at the same time I viewed it as a eye opener on what was happening during the war when the German Nazis tortured the Jewish culture. In the thirty days of filming they captured things that were going on such as people starving,children searching for ways to eat ,trash everywhere because people were just to weak to carry it ot, Jews being mistreated and filmed as if they were animals. They were also filming things that were staged and untrue for propaganda purposes. I couldnt imagine being expelled from my home and forced to find a home within the ghetto walls in 2 days not able to have all my belongings,in most cases families were to share one room and only had access to very little food. The film showed how the Jewish community just roamed the streets most of them became very weak and unhealthy in a short time due to lack of eating and hygeine. Families were torn apart as they were eventually dying off in the streets, one survivor mentioned herself as becoming "unhuman" ,she had became "indifferent of others,otherwise it would have been impossible to live." They were eventually stepping over corpses of all ages that were lying in the streets and sidewalks, watching Jews picking up other Jews throwing them in a cart and taking them to mass graves.While watching this part of the film I asked myself , How could someone just stand there and film things like this go on ? It is heartbreaking to watch, I couldnt imagine being a part of something so horrible. The staging of scenes like making Jews walk with their heads held high as if nothing was going on, the feeding them in resturaunts , even a fake funeral precession is just another horrible act. How can people be so cruel? The Holucost is a very interesting topic however after viewing this film it was put into perspective of all the torture and inhumane things those poor people had to endure during the War and the Film was a little hard to sit through and watch without tears coming to my eyes.