:08:00
They took Jews in buses and
closed them up and were gassing them.
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In July 1942, rumors
begin circulating in the ghetto...
:08:09
... that Jews will be deported by
the Germans and resettled in the East.
:08:15
People are afraid,
but they don 't know what this means.
:08:19
We were told. . .
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. . .that we were going
to the east of Poland. . .
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. . .to be transported
to another place. . .
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. . .where you are going to
live and work and so on.
:08:36
They never told the Jews
what they would do.
:08:39
They deceived by language.
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Even the word ''deportation''
doesn't obviously signify. . .
:08:47
. . .that murder
is at the end of the tracks.
:08:51
Many don 't perceive the danger.
:08:53
Among them is Adam Czerniakow.
:08:57
The council said, that's Czerniakow,
they know such things are happening. . .
:09:04
. . .but this concerns only small towns.
:09:07
It is impossible such a thing
could happen in Warsaw.
:09:11
He was trying to care for the sick. . .
:09:17
. . .and make sure schools kept going.
Honorable things in his mind.
:09:22
But he wasn't able to see
the imminent danger. . .
:09:26
. . .that everyone was in.
:09:28
On July 22, 1942, German authorities
give Czerniakow the dreaded word...
:09:34
... that all Jews will be deported.
:09:37
This will include the children
whom he desperately hoped to protect.
:09:42
No exemptions.
Men, women and children.
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The old and the young.
When he heard ''all'' . . .
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. . .he refused to sign
the final order of deportation. . .
:09:54
. . .and that's the moment
he took his own life.
:09:57
When Czerniakow committed suicide,
Antek hated him.