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. . .they'd go out with a bang.
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Mordechai said there's
one thing we can control. . .
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. . .in this terrible Nazi situation,
and that's how we die.
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And so their deaths were all they had.
And how to use it. . .
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. . .was all they had.
:05:18
The spirit of our deaths. . . .
:05:24
The spirit of our deaths. . .
:05:26
. . .will shape the soul
of a new generation.
:05:31
A new nation of Jews.
:05:33
They held them out of
the Ghetto for over a month. . .
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. . .for quite a while.
Some fought for a very long time.
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What's incredible is that
this young Jewish youth. . .
:05:46
. . .fought the German army, the Nazis,
longer than the entire Polish army did.
:05:53
And if other Jews are emboldened. . .
:05:56
. . .if other sectors initiate uprisings,
it spreads to the Poles--?
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You see the implications?
The cause for concern?
:06:04
An unwritten rule we followed was:
don't dramatize the Holocaust. . .
:06:09
. . .just tell the story.
Let the story tell itself.
:06:13
The difficult thing was finding
where the real characters intersected.
:06:18
And taking a narrative out of these
historical characters and events.
:06:25
Paul Brickman's interpretation of Adam
Czerniakow, the Jewish Council head. . .
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. . .the Judenrat, which is like being
the mayor of New York, if you will. . .
:06:35
. . .his interpretation was that
this man did everything. . .
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. . .to mitigate damages being inflicted
upon his people by the Germans.
:06:47
In his hopefulness, Czerniakow tried
to create a negotiating position. . .
:06:53
. . .where he could bargain to make
the life easier until it was over.
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His mistake was that he thought
the people he was bargaining with. . .