A Film Unfinished - Zach Eaton

            The documentary, “A Film Unfinished” is about a German film crew hired to capture the Warsaw Ghetto in its prime. The Warsaw Ghetto was the biggest ghetto during the Holocaust. It packed more than 350,000 people into a mile and a half space. The films were uncovered many years after the holocaust had concluded. A reporter found them in an archives section. German military were using the films as propaganda to German civilians, capturing images of Jewish people playing soccer, images of them dancing, images of Jewish people that were not malnourished. The scenes were staged so that people couldn’t see exactly how the Jews were being treated. They wanted German people to think that the Jewish people were perfectly fine and had decent living quarters. This was not the case in fact.

            Images of what really was going on were uncovered throughout the films. Having so many people squeezed into such a little space was unthinkable. Jewish people were being starved to death. Corpses were everywhere. You could find dead people on sidewalks, just lying on the ground, and others had to just live with it. They would be carted off sooner or later and buried in a mass grave. Many Jews were so under fed and so weak that they would just sit against walls or just lay around, more than likely passing away not to long after. German soldiers would ridicule and torture Jewish people. They had no respect for the living or the dead. They were strictly there to make sure that Jewish people had no way of a decent life and to try and make their life a living hell. Conditions were indescribable, and the film makers captured most of it. The film “ A Film Unfinished” showed everyone the reality and severity the Jewish people were put through and had to endure on a daily basis.