Jewish Quarter in Warsaw (1939) filmed by Benjamin Gasul

[@johntomlinson6849]

The poor souls had no idea of the horrors to come... Awful.

[@mariehuguen4332]

😱😥

[@w.s.2102]

Kind of like the poor souls today

[@elliskaranikolaou2550]

Very Sad. It makes me wonder if we could be in for troubles too, the world feels like 1937. Its primed Geo Politically for a major war.

[@mariehuguen4332]

@@elliskaranikolaou2550 No...😳 What makes you think so? Hope not really!😱

[@w.s.2102]

@@elliskaranikolaou2550 Instincts are never wrong....i predict a Global death toll of almost 2 Billion when this is finally all over in 5 to 10 years....Stay safe and may God bless you ❤

[@propertydoc19]

This is literally the "calm before the storm".

[@missiavu]

Exactly, @Liam Martin.

[@borjamedellinValenciaMadrid]

Buena vista 😃 amigo!

[@fredhamster8341]

It's actual Ifeel it.from France

[@stillgotyourmom]

WRONG! The Progroms started with the so called crystal night and that was 1938 after germany already went in poland. WK2 was from 38 to 45 so if its chronologically correct its in the middle of war.

[@missiavu]

The "crystal night" stood in Germany in 1938, before the war, not in Poland not yet invaded, @@stillgotyourmom ......

[@mightymissk]

Its haunting to look at these images of the people smiling shyly at the camera man. For them, its a lovely spring day in the sunshine. But we the viewers know the horror that awaits them.

[@sifridbassoon]

this is so haunting since we know what is going to happen to almost every one of these people like the guy in the suit who walks by, notices there is a camera and straightens his tie 😥

[@Proud_Troll]

Which dude? I see.

[@sugarlove]

It makes my heart breaks to imagine what they had to through just after this 😞

[@healpmdd9192]

Its coming to us...

[@thales2456]

> "OOOH THA NAZHEES" > Gain $$$ from German state for ficcional story > Colonize Is(not)rael with UN aproove > Do with Palestine with the germans "did" to you Problem? :trollface:

[@argentianguis6510]

@@healpmdd9192 what do you mean?

[@germaniatv1870]

The German-Americans was first. At least since Wilson opened up the hunt for German-Americans in 1919. The Babel Proclamation forbid every German to speak & write in German. All over the USA book burning events took place , burning German literature & art. The Germans them have been segregated,slaved and deported. We are talking about German settler and Pioneers who settled the Americas in at least the 1600's. In 1919, the USA was up to 38% German speaking,which was the majority. German music was banned,literature,art ect. It was the German vote which got Wilson into office who promised not to join Britain against Germany. Wilson did not keep his promise and started to hunt German-Americans. At the same time the Bolschewiks in Poland treated the Germans in their own homeland the same way and even worse. The NSDAP was not yet founded and later Stalin would take over and massacre and starve millions to death. We need to remember the Gulags the Germans was forced into in US America and in East-Germany. Unfortunately ,in this Video you dont see the "German" territory which is now called Poland, because you would be astonished about the crueltys done against the Germans and Polish people alike. Then we need to understand that without the Reich der Deutschen Nationen,OTTO, there would probably not be a Poland today. Before 1939, Poland was called "Hell on Earth" and everybody knew about the atrocitys going on in Bolschewik & Communist lands in the eastern parts. Let me tell you this, you didnt want to be a German-American or a German in stolen Germany after 1919. They was plundered,raped,slaved,starved and massacred. This is why Germany declared war on Bolschewik Poland.

[@captainsponge7825]

@@germaniatv1870 do you wear foil hat by any chance?

[@ryrify]

This is hard to watch, and completely impossible not to. It is like seeing ghosts, and the horror in the pit of my stomach doesn’t match the humanity of the images. Incredible that 2:44 minutes of footage can incapsulate the essence of the last months of millions of lives. The music was beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.

[@JESUSisLORD24151]

What a beautiful little short film, but when I look at the individuals in the film I can't help but think about what happened to each one of them. Were any of these people filmed survive? It is kind of a heartbreaking film to watch. Thank you for sharing this video.

[@rocketsniper8726]

Its exceedingly likely that everyone in this video was slaughtered by the nazis. Warsaw lost over 90% of its jews

[@lesliegranowski2683]

It’s just amazing to see this and then To think that people hated them so much they put them to death it’s so hard to comprehend We must never forget

[@Silvia-km8nj]

And continued hating that why being jeshiw you can’t live in Poland because hate issues

[@shanebell2514]

@@Silvia-km8nj its still bad now?

[@antonikrzsztofik355]

@@Silvia-km8nj what do you mean by that? Who discriminated Jews in Poland nowadays?

[@shady2slow]

People in Germany started to build resentment towards Jews because, well we can not talk about those reasons. People also started to build resentment towards Jews from 200 BC to 1939. For some reason they were expelled from more than 200+ countries throughout history including most of EU, Arab world and Americas. What else is so hard to comprehend is why nobody talks about the reasons.. Hmm

[@bilnetwon5677]

@@shady2slow the big problem now is islam. We need to expel all muslims and arabs from Europe.

[@mauricebederon869]

My German grandfather's female chief was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943. I can not look at these pictures I have. In one photo she stands in front of the camera in an elegant dress and a modern updo. That was around 1912. As a young girl, she danced the Viennese waltz and the last thing she saw was an overcrowded cattle car, an extermination camp or a gas chamber.

[@Лаутензак]

Просто,ужас,что их ожидало,бежать бы в Америку,или светлые лица,смеются.

[@retiarene6340]

So interesting to see this video and so sad - beautiful people, beautiful faces, great city - all turned into ashes...poor sons and daughters of Israel...

[@LoverOFhopeANDcompassion]

If Jewish genocide had not taken place modern Israel would not have been created. These were polish nationals, nothing to do with 19 yes later birth of Israel as a result of...

[@johntomlinson6849]

@@LoverOFhopeANDcompassion Israel is also a generic term for Jewish people

[@esty6374]

Sons of Israel are the sons of Jacob (name change). He had 12 sons... the Jewish people are their descendants

[@dimitri1946]

@@esty6374 from 12 sons came the 12 tribes. Of the twelve tribes the sons of Judah dominated and survived as Jews (Jew-dah) until 70 AD when the original Israelite social order was destroyed for keeps and the Wandering Jew came to represent what remained of ancient Hebrew DNA. It's a long story but the people in this documentary are a far cry from the Jews of the Bible or Torah.

[@lindacosta5688]

To look at the children and know that they probably didn’t survive the war. 💔

[@mariawoz5783]

Many Jewish children were saved by Poles. Polish orphanages run by Christian orders, were places where Jewish children were hidden too. Many Polish families, sometimes villages, were hanged or shot for hiding Jews. Poland was the only country, where there was a death sentence for hiding Jews. Poland was the only country, where so many Jews were saved from the occupier, by individuals Poles- even by teenagers.

[@lindacosta5688]

@@mariawoz5783 Agree-we must never forget these brave men and women

[@mariawoz5783]

@@lindacosta5688 💓

[@ChairmanPaulieD]

Murdered by a Nazi government policy and a batshit crazy loser called Adolf Hitler

[@srulykaplan]

​@@mariawoz5783 that is not true, in belarus and ukraine there was also death penalty for hiding jews. pretty much every country that was slavic or eastern european had death penalty.

[@710MaryJane]

These poor souls, had no idea what was to come! We must speak up against injustice and not stay silent. We must crush all hate groups, cut off the snake’s head before it strikes! SHALOM

[@rhysnichols8608]

Why have they been persecuted for 3000 years and expelled from 109 nations? Perhaps they need to self reflect

[@PodcastCentral333]

@@rhysnichols8608 why was the girl raped? perhaps she needed to dress more modestly.

[@ColinFromSpringfield]

Including TRUMP supporters.

[@nonomnismoriar9051]

It's impossible not to feel saddened by the fate of these ordinary people, murdered for nothing except hatred and paranoia. RIP

[@thomass1891]

90% of Polish Jews perished in WW2. Hence why it's so chilling to watch this.

[@johnerwin9024]

Agree. Unnerving to watch.

[@leokorn1629]

This is more shocking than watching a war movie.

[@jsheekey1]

This is so bitter sweet 💔 beautiful to see ❤️ but so sad 💔

[@dawnandy7777]

Poles need to document how the Catholic tribes managed to co-exist with the Jewish tribes for so many centuries. Sure there was racism, on both sides. But they lived together better than anywhere else in Europe in those days. The world needs this insight more than ever.

[@Flyingkitty1234]

But Jews and Christians has same God right? Then why racism?

[@Silvia-km8nj]

Wtf.???can documentary the roots of actual antisemitism underneath????

[@dawnandy7777]

@@Silvia-km8nj It's virtually instinctual in humans to support members of the "in group" and by definition hate "the other." Belief systems and cultural traditions add to this underlying, ancient, evolved biology, neurology. Freud concluded that European anti-Semitism was based in circumcision, considered to be castration, called MGM today. Regardless, the Polish tribes and Jewish tribes co-existed better than anywhere else in Europe. And I don't think it was just because the nobility forced the co-operation. Sapolsky provides a well informed scientific overview of human neurology and why humans hate "the other." kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWbKkH93pLqMkLM

[@historicrecord]

Warsaw was the 2nd biggest jewish population centre after New York and within 4 years 99% of the population were slaughtered and the city destroyed

[@azgal55]

Going about their everyday lives. I’m sure there was worry and talk about war. I wonder if any of these wonderful people survived. May their memories be a blessing 😔

[@Lucas_07-PL]

It..... was filmed before war.

[@anandkandagodthebulbofhapp5922]

Ever since I have watched this video, my mind is trying to enact things that they might have gone through. Hunger was everywhere. The Jews from this town were displaced to another cities or may be Warsaw ghetto and imagine their plight trying to survive in a different place with no money, job or social assistance (Hunger and need to survive makes people mean). Many may even have lost their faith in God. What a terrible situation...

[@ourtube3801]

More than 90% of Polish Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, so it's highly unlikely anyone in this film survived. Maybe some of the younger people but definitely not any of the older folk.

[@louisecoffey9843]

@@Lucas_07-PL yes but I’m sure before the war people still talked about a possible war, I’m sure tensions were high for a while. The war didn’t just start overnight.

[@mariawoz5783]

They were significantly free and happy people, as always in Poland.

[@lordharry9608]

@@marysia5365 ONR istniał niecałe trzy miesiące. Faktycznie tych napadów musiało być mnóstwo.

[@DogDogGodFog]

Not really, there was a lot of antisemitism there during the interwar period.

[@karatearmchairhistorian9825]

@@DogDogGodFog Not really. Why do you think so many Jews moved to Poland? So they could get attacked by anti-semites?

[@spudskie3907]

The Polish government was not exactly democratic and there was rampant antisemitism in Poland at the time.

[@DerGlaetze]

As a Gentile, I try to imagine being Jewish and wonder what I would have done during this precise time, or what, if any sort of contingency plan I could have had, even if I knew what was going to happen soon. Perhaps flee to America? No. That’s because there was a ban on immigration, during this time. The Jews were even turned back in Cuba. Should I go to the Holy Land? No. The British controlled that from happening. They were literally trapped. My heart is heavy for the Jews. My now deceased brother in law was Jewish. We all loved him dearly. I don’t blame many of the Jews immigrating to Israel today.

[@SomeFunnyAndOriginalNickname]

On avarage, about 9 out of 10 people you see in this video haven't survive the war.

[@fridgeanon]

Im Varsovian and my granny (born in 1931) told me all about pre war Warsaw, the war, later communism etc. It's great to see videos like this.

[@adriangawryjolek]

Chętnie dowiem się czegoś nowego- niestety nie znam nikogo, kto pamiętałby przedwojenną Warszawę

[@Silvia-km8nj]

@@adriangawryjolek mmm nobody remember because those who remember are outside your country.I live outside Poland and I know because I made a research that the Jewish cementery where my family is buried it’s now a days use for play soccer for kids( not Warsaw)

[@antonikrzsztofik355]

@@Silvia-km8nj where exactly? Unfortunately Germans destroyed a lot of Jewish cemeteries and communists after war didn’t care about restoring them or even preserving

[@alexandermalinowski4277]

@@Silvia-km8nj Usually Germans destroyed Jewish buildings or institutions and if there were no Jews to revive them after the war, they found other usage. Since fall of communism in some places people gather together to restore Jewish places.

[@kristinamelnichenko5775]

Is that Gareth Jones at 1:19? This is soul crushing but that’s humanity and I’m glad these people are remembered. How much life in their eyes..💔💔💔

[@styldsteel1]

This is the warsaw ghettos? My goodness. These poor souls had no idea. Oh my God.

[@Lucas_07-PL]

It was not. It was filmed before German invasion

[@styldsteel1]

@@Lucas_07-PL okay thank you.

[@Lucas_07-PL]

@@styldsteel1 Also here is an article I wrote about miniorities in Second Poland to an friend of mine , it should be historically accurate : @African Biographics Now let's talk about Second Polish Republic . Part 1 People : It was Extremly multiethnic (from todays Poles perspective) Congo shaped country in Central and Easter Europe that lasted 21 years , with miniorities making 1/3 of the population , mainly Ukrainians , Belarusians , Jews and Germans (all thought there was only small percent of them) , with Jews making 10% of the total population , it was biggest Jewish community in Europe , some were assimilated to Polish nationality while some were not . Rest were ethnic mainly Catholic Poles. There were also small communities of Muslim Tatars , Russians , Arnemians , and some other small miniorities living there , the result of Polish Lituanian Comonwealth policy. Beacouse of history Poles were (and are) yeeted all around the word , in South America (Argentina and Brazil mainly ) , Haiti (thats hell of a story how they got there , I'll try to tell ya that soon) USA , Uk , France , China , mainly in the Manchuria region (they were yeeted back to Poland after ww2 , and also during particions era in 1800s there was A polish state Janxi or something , fighting Russia and China , created by Pole and inhabited by Asian miniorites from dat region and other Poles) , few were in Africa , There were a lot of in USSR , until genocide in 1937-38 but about that later , some villages in Turkey , in Czechoslovakia , Baltic countries , msinly Lituania , some in Australia (Great Polish adventurer and Hero of 1800s Paweł Strzelecki climbed up on on the mountain he calculated to be highest and named it Kościuszko Mountain (Góra Kościuszki) howewer Austrian Adventurer later discovered that diffrent mountain is highest so he named both after some German/Austrian important people , the Australian gov. thanked him for that research , and then renamed highest mountain Kościuszko mountain 🙃 and the other one after that Austrian person.) and some more small communities I don't know about yet . Today it is said that about 20 milion Poles are living in diffrent countries that Poland . But back to Second Poland , unfortunally the miniorities weren't threated very well , thought still better that in most of neightbouring countries at the time . It comes mainly from growing nationalism , with main personification as National Democrats (about politics in other part) led by one of main fathers of the nation , Roman Dmowski , but it was a thing existing in olnearly all parties at the time . The country had only one autonomy , in the Śląsk region inhabited by Ślązacy , heavily Germanized Poles , who are not fully Poles or Germans , rest of the country had no hope for autonomy , expect some short attempts in some regions during Piłsudski rule and the miniorities were unfortunally slowly Polonized with was in my opinion big mistake and shouldn't have happened but unfortunally we cannot change past . The most pissed nation beacouse of this were Ukrainians , tho the Volynia genocide was not direct result of that but one of the many reasons that had gathered during all those hundreds of years beetween the 2 nations , that's why super radical organizations UPA and OUN were slowly gainining support among Polish Ukrainians , tho some were opposing it with was represented by those trying to save Poles during genocide , howewer both during Second Poland and genocide showing support to Poland by Ukrainians was dangerous to say at least , OUN would target you and attempt to murder you, typically with succes , same applied to proUkrainian Poles , nearly all of them were at least harmed in assasination attempts , a lot were killed including hight ranking ministers like Bronisław Pieracki or Tadeusz Hołówka , mainly bc he attempted to make deal with more clam Ukrainian organizations. They OUN were very confrontactional. Now about repressions of miniorities there were few actions unfortunally , they are one of biggest stains on honor of Poland . Most known were , antisemitic law made by Roman Dmowski (he disliked Jews , allthought he didn't wanted to genocide them) with was that Jewish students had to sit in specially selected benches in classes and were forbbidden from sitting with Poles and Retaliation action against Ukrainians in late 30s where after some terrorist attacks then autoritarian Goverment made series of arrests in Galicia , eastern part of country , arresting a lot of random pp and using collective responsibility. Sanacia gov. also really disliked Orthodox Churh , whith they saw as the religion of the occupant (they were antiRussian fraction) and were rather represive towards it with also sparked antiPolish sentiments , tho they didn't went full Hitler on it , yet it still was on serious level and shamefull for Polish nation (it was demolition of churches for many random reasons and preventing new from beeing made). There were also sometimes some other smaller antiminiorities events allthought luckily death were only in teens if you add them all , still few ten too much , the reasons were many , history , economy , and politics , I will talk about it in other parts .So in summary , how was life for miniorities in Second Poland ? Well livable ratger harash but livable , it was not great not terrible , it could be worse but it also could be better , I wish I could make it better but I can get back in time , while today I don't have anyone to make autonomy to , 98% of polpulation are Poles. And well , it could be worse I guess , for example look at rest of Ukraine at that times much poorer , terrotized by NKWD , and massacred during Holdomor (6-10 milion dead from hunger) and pretty sure Ortodox Church did not had an easy time there , or Jews and other miniorities like Poles or Serbołużyczans in Germany well I don't need to explain what happened to them I think . The live in other European nations for them in most cases also weren't heaven neintier hell tho. And well no matter how small amount of of represion of miniorities was in Poland , it's still to much , and we , Poles condem them and are sorry for what happened , those people may not be Poles but were citizens of Poland and , exept if they were causingbserious harm to the country , should never be met with opression from their other countrymen/women. End of Part 1

[@styldsteel1]

@@Lucas_07-PL very rich in information. Thank you.

[@tom80]

@Polandball Poland was pushing Jews out of Poland and taking away their citizenship and putting them in refugee camps before Germany even invaded. Many Jews had no place to go and many were stuck there or migrated to other European countries which were then conquered by Germany. These Jews were then shipped back to concentration camps located in Poland for slave labor and murder. Poland has a terrible history with respect to the Jewish Holocaust and many other European countries like France and Yugoslavia helped as well by pushing Jews out of their countries. Prussia was also a country of Germans in the north of present day Poland and Germans were driven out of that area by Poles which helped set the stage for WWII. Diversity disappeared for a reason in Poland and it was driven by hate, nationalism, war and murder.

[@kazikowski1976]

Our beautifull, multicultural, pre- war Warsaw... Gone for good...

[@dano3952]

It's nice to see that in that moment of time that they were happy just living a normal life. If course we all know what was to come in the years after this....but appreciate this captured moment and measure it as a worthy wonderful life moment that will exist for them no matter what may have befallen them via the Nazis. This moment belongs to their circle of happiness and we are witness to what was good in their lives minus the bad. Cheers to this moment in time innocent of the later doom and gloom.

[@bemiatto67]

This footage is so creepy knowing that likely almost everyone here were murdered during the war pretty soon after this

[@serqsar3893]

I wish someone had said them “run away !!! evils are coming”...so sad to see them not able to figure out that black clouds are gathering in a neighbouring country

[@jankim3836]

and what? you think they would run away? do you think this does not apply to current times?

[@DogDogGodFog]

Religious Jews generally really hated being uprooted.

[@semsemeini7905]

Heartbreaking.

[@aroshhasan587]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@anandkandagodthebulbofhapp5922]

People just like us with stories and burdens of life. Those were tough times with tension of war between Poland and Germany yet the Children looked so happy to be in the frame of the camera. What they could never imagined just happened to them. May God gather these beautiful souls and give them rest. Love you all and sorry we let this happen to you..

[@magorzatak4037]

Poland did not want war. Germany attacked Poland in 1939.

[@rascallyrabbit717]

Don't beat yourself up about it, you were not even born

[@Lucas_07-PL]

@@rascallyrabbit717 Speak about yourself

[@Silvia-km8nj]

@@rascallyrabbit717 my friends told me that the only way to live in Warsaw now a days is your cristian ,they don’t want Jewish and it’s true,how many Jewish live in Warsaw????

[@roktiw]

I wish Warsaw was like this today

[@sethland]

What is happening in 0:45? It appears people are bullying someone with wares on their back?

[@rheinhartsilvento2576]

Yeah, looks like they're roughhandling him

[@samuan001]

I guess they want him to pose/show himself to the camera. Btw all women are home?

[@styldsteel1]

Yes. I couldn't make out what's happening here. Kind of unclear.

[@filipkogut8533]

Like samuan001 said, they're trying to make him to pose for the camera, similar thing happens in 1:19

[@sebastianrutkowski7316]

you have a very interesting name, my friend. where do you live? do ppl have a hard time pronouncing? greets from berlin.

[@dianaconnors4700]

I feel afraid for them just watching this, the music is beautiful.

[@dianaconnors4700]

@Michael Carroll .......who the hell are you, I don’t want or need your opinion,......But if you are going to give a comment please do it in a way that can be understood because the three or four comments that you sent me don’t make any sense how come you haven’t committed to anyone ? How dare YOU tell me that I am the problem in the world you fool.

[@djholliday4413]

Some of these scenes are familiar to me, although, not in color. It is amazing to see the beautiful, laughing, smiling faces of the Jewish people of Warsaw, prior to WWII. It makes you wonder what happened to the men and boys you see on the streets, innocently going about their lives, with no clue that it would be destroyed forever. You watch this, knowing the fate of the stoic grandfathers, with their beautiful beards. This film is a piece of history that was demolished by hate. We must never forget these people, or the terrible fate they met at the hands of Hitler and the Nazis. 🙏🇺🇲❤🇬🇧✌🏻🇮🇱

[@DeadChavez]

My father's whole family perished in the Siedlce ghetto.

[@formulaone07]

One side of my ancestors were from Siedlce too. From what I read, many were transported at the end of August 1942 to Treblinka. By the way, there's a Siedlce decendents group on Facebook if you're interested called ארגון יוצאי שדלץ בישראל. The website is www.siedlce.org.il/home-2/

[@DeadChavez]

@@formulaone07 Thanks for the link !

[@lesliegranowski2683]

And that’s really horrible your poor father and that gets passed down generation to generation because all of you missed out on knowing anyone in his family and anyone that had That kind of loss Had horrible pain in their life

[@DeadChavez]

@@lesliegranowski2683 Interesting fact about my father.... he escaped from Siedlce to Russia in 1939 as a young teenager. He could speak fluent Polish all his life till he passed at the age of 87.

[@RG-cc3lq]

That's terribile. Sorry to hear that. A lot of Jewish families must have had someone who died in German camps. As a Pole (living in Warsaw) I may say that we'll never forget the injustice that Jews suffered from Germans. Every day I go to my office which is located in the area of Jewish Quarter (and later ghetto). There are almost no pre-war buildings as Germans bombed it after extermination. Nonetheless, borders of ghetto are marked on the pavement and there are some monuments to remind what happened over there. It's hard not to be aware of this tragedy. When I watch videos like this one, I wish I could go back in time for at least one day to see pre-war Warsaw. It was such a beautiful and multicultural city back then.

[@tomeandrade]

The background music in this video is very beautiful. Could you please tell me what is the name of this song?

[@KrzysztofAJanczak]

Hi Tomé, thank you! The music in the background is the score from a polish movie "The Straight Story" that I have composed in 2007. Best wishes, Krzysztof A.

[@cristianeandrade5109]

@@KrzysztofAJanczak Hello .... Krzysztof A., thank you very much for your attention in answering me. I really liked your background music that you put in this video "Jewish Quarter in Warsaw (1939) filmed by Benjamin Gasul". You are to be congratulated for its composition is very beautiful. I'm trying to find your music to hear. I searched on the internet as "The Straight Story" but another different song appears. Please, where can I find your composition to listen to and what is her name ??

[@ryrify]

This is hard to watch, and completely impossible not to. It is like seeing ghosts, and the horror in the pit of my stomach doesn’t match the humanity of the images. Incredible that 2:44 minutes of footage can incapsulate the essence of the last months of millions of lives. The music was beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.

[@tomeandrade]

@@ryrify Hello Loki09, please, would you know how to tell me the NAME of the background music in this video ??

[@mrsco6064]

The video was made/uploaded 12 years ago so don't know if the maker is still around. What would be a good update is to find those locations like 'Mila 18' and show what they look like now/today.

[@teresaharley5913]

Heart breaking 😢

[@homeboy2166]

It’s sad to think what happened to these people.

[@Nehamah92205]

Great video! What sucks is that all these areas where my Brothers and Sisters once lived and thrived are now blown to dust. Most of our synagogues are now resturants, and our villagas are now full of Polish people... The Jewish precense in Poland is now basically gone. If you walk down some of the streets you will see buildings with faded hebrew written on it, along with parts of synagogues that are just standing in ruins. This video is the perfect representation of how fast something can disapear... One day your laughing with all of your friends while walking to the grocery store, and in a matter of a week, you are in the worst imaginable condition of your life. Live each day with thanks, because unfortunately it can be taken away from you with the snap of a finger...

[@TheIamtheoneandonly1]

May God rest their souls in peace.

[@aroshhasan587]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@monikaszpik6813]

Who knows Chaim Rumkowski from the ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt) !?

[@kingcobra7183]

I know him- I am his son

[@miriamzajfman4305]

Co ma piernik do wiatraka 👎🙄❗

[@velRic]

@monikaszpik6813 m

[@redhen2470]

Look at that, not a cellphone in sight. People just living in the moment.

[@EngPheniks]

most of them are dead. taken to Treblinka extermination camp by trains which kill many on the way because of its horrible condition.

[@miniorek]

My city... how could this happen...

[@barrybarnes96]

Have a look at Fox News and the Republican Party ..same type of ghouls.

[@yolok3]

@@barrybarnes96 seriously? More like the Dems who have aligned themselves with the likes of Farrakhan while funding Iran who are literally trying to build a nuke to use on millions of Jews. You should be ashamed at yourself

[@coppermouse30]

It's heartbreaking to think of the future that awaited those poor people.

[@teio748]

4 months later… Rip

[@IgnacyBobrowski-v8m]

Straszne!!! Otwock czego prowadzi nienawiść!!! Biedni ludzie!..😭😭😭❤❤❤✌Pokój i wzajemna miłość jest drogą do szczęścia ❤❤❤

[@heyitsme1360]

Omg they are so happy smiling for the cameras and playing about .exactly like we do today . It's brakes my heart to think what there future will be. O.g how can it happen I see this and think good people enjoy a modest life .just like me now and how can anyone try and sabotage that it really is so heartbraking !

[@tomeandrade]

Hello .... Krzysztof A., thank you very much for your attention in answering me. I really liked your background music that you put in this video "Jewish Quarter in Warsaw (1939) filmed by Benjamin Gasul". You are to be congratulated for its composition is very beautiful. I'm trying to find your music to hear. I searched on the internet as "The Straight Story" but another different song appears. Please, where can I find your composition to listen to and what is her name ??

[@Silvia-km8nj]

Beautiful????? You have cero empathy

[@quadhelix7749]

what do you think about their descendants being able to return to Warsaw and their property returned to them?

[@cyruspym8599]

They had no descendants or their descendants were also killed by Germans.

[@Silvia-km8nj]

@@cyruspym8599 iam a descent and stolen my family properties.

[@MrAniseable]

​@@Silvia-km8nj yeah but probably your property was destroyed by Germans in Warsaw Uprising at the end of the war... About of 70% of Warsaw buldings was destroyed and these buldings were pile of rubble. Citizens rebuilt them with their bare hands and money was raised in post-war time by the whole Poland's population for that... Please go to Germany and get recompensation from them, because if they weren't started that war you would live with your family in Warsaw in your not destroyed and not rebuild from scratch property now in whole different world, in multinational country with Warsaw as a capital.

[@designeurdesign2656]

c est déchirant de savoir que la quasi totalité de ces gens ont été assassinés 3 ans plus tard 😢

[@flosbuttocks4444]

Then along came some uninvited guests....

[@lukaszzwijaczkozica5243]

Ja nierozumie jakNiemcy mogly zrobic tak straszne zeczy i unicestwić tyle istnien ludzkich.szkoda ludzi

[@aroshhasan587]

That's exactly how it should be with the Jews, they are the troublemakers in the world😂

[@williamwalls9768]

All the wretchedness aside thats a very hard beat

[@hebneh]

I wonder what on earth is going on with some of these people - I assume some are being forced to stand still to be filmed, which they don't want.

[@AnnabelleJARankin]

They aren't familiar with a camera - reacting to being filmed!

[@haroldgoodman130]

No one was interested in filming them. So they are fascinated with what is going on. Some are smiling and very curious.

[@CDN1975]

I can't help but wonder how many of those beautiful souls survived the evil that was unleashed onto them.

[@marimbadearco]

at 0:37, what is going on? they’re hassling some guy with a huge something on his back

[@jaceklangiewicz3486]

Biedni ludzie, nie wiedzieli, co ich spotka. Można by powiedzieć, że była to cisza przed burzą.

[@tomaszpolanski7217]

I jak wyglada Polska bez zydow?to nawet nie jest Polska tylko jakas tania podroba

[@mauricebederon869]

Да, страшно представить, что потом пережили эти люди!

[@maremacd]

What is happening at 0:44???

[@NadNadja]

I saw that too.

[@blackcrow4218]

They propably showing off to camera in that time it was something

[@grainofsaltdashofinsanity9493]

Love the soundtrack with this footage. Very nice.

[@KrzysztofAJanczak]

Thank you Estrella!

[@mercomania]

This could have been the Jewish Quarter in any city across Eastern Europe in 1938, all gone under awful circumstances.

[@pythagorasnine]

absolutely could not be "

[@mercomania]

@@pythagorasnine The Jewish Quarters in cities across Eastern Europe differed very little from Warsaw. Cities such as Lvov, Kiev, Vienna, Budapest and many others were comparable to Warsaw.

[@user-jr4kc6lu9q]

There were a few exceptions. Large numbers of Jews were spared from the Holocaust in the cities of Budapest and Cernauti.

[@carmenandronic8332]

Doamne fereste,inimaginabil ce a urmat..

[@SandraPrice-c5g]

My heart breaks for these poor people. They probably had no idea whatsoever what was about to hit them - an avalanche of mindless hatred and terror, by a supposed modern & educated people in the Country next to Poland. An educated guess is that ALL these souls perished, innocent and unarmed and a threat to no one. I have tears in my eyes watching. It’s not new to me, I’ve seen this film clip several times before but I still find it hauntingly sad. May their souls rest in peace.

[@kodokoa]

Serce się kraje, ciężko się to ogląda

[@emmahembree3119]

So many beautiful face's

[@merseywhogirl3430]

Whilst watching this very sad film, REMEMBER that almost ALL these people were murdered by the Nazis....most in Treblinka!!! xxx

[@Lucas_07-PL]

*Germans

[@dalbellinho]

Shy and curious faces looking at the camera 🥺 Humankind fought the wrong battle and won it...

[@1983Giseli]

What a beautiful people! So sad to see their face and imagine what they were about to endure. I feel extremely sad knowing that the Nazis did such atrocities and the lack of support of other nations helping them to live Germany before they were sent to concentration camps. We will always remember history and hope that never happens again ❤️

[@mariawoz5783]

" that the Nazis did ";"We will always remember history " WHO ARE THE NAZIS?

[@1983Giseli]

@@mariawoz5783 Sorry Maria Was my comment offensive? My appologies if is . It wasn't my intention. I don't quite understand your reply so if I offended you I am sorry. I genuinely feel sad knowing what happened and that Hitler had so much power and all the crimes the Nazis performed. I hope we can always remember and honour the Jews by never letting such things happen again ❤️

[@mariawoz5783]

@@1983Giseli Hi Giseli, your comment was not offensive at all, and my point was to put your attention to the historical fact with the question :Who are they? Thank you for your reaction and reply. I'm very sorry if you felt attacked. I did not want to attack you. My apologies if the form of my comment was not clear as I intended, and make you anxious. The fact is that there was not and there is no Nazis nation, but there were and there are Germany. There are so many lies about that period that we, Poles, can only cry out of powerlessness. Poland is still not ruled by real Poles, and these administrators do not care about the historical policy of the Polish nation, and allow the true history to be blurred, which in turn gives such a belief, that :"some Nazis" have committed crimes against Jews -even excluding the victims of Poles. They do it with the money of Polish taxpayers, and it happens that they even reward scoundrels who falsify Polish history. By the way, let me give you a completely unknown fact; Poland and the Polish nation were directly attacked by the German people led by Hitler on September 1, 1939. The Slovak invasion of Poland occurred during Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939. The attack started without a formal declaration of war on September 1, 1939, at 5:00 a.m. Invasion by the Soviets, led by Stalin on September 17, 1939. My beautiful hometown experienced a double occupation. The city was divided between two aggressors: the German Reich and the Soviet Union. One piece of cake for one occupier. Nazis is Germany, a German nation led by Hitler, who wanted to wipe the Poles off the face of the Earth, but the Poles resisted his aspirations, so later he also targeted the Jews. This is a very sad story and maybe you do not wish to know it, but if you want, you can read more about. Again, thank you very much for your response and I wish you all the best in this world, 🎈💓🎈 Here is some from; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_crimes_against_the_Polish_nation Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion of Poland,[1] along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation of Poland in World War II,[2] consisted of the murder of millions of ethnic Poles and the systematic extermination of Jewish Poles. The Germans justified these genocides on the basis of Nazi racial theory, which regarded Poles and other Slavic peoples as racially inferior Untermenschen and depicted Jews as a constant threat. These extremely large death tolls, and the absence of substantial non-Jewish civilian deaths in "racially superior" occupied European countries such as Denmark and France, attest to Germany's genocidal policies directed against the Poles. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost

[@libglade3696]

Usuwając komentarz wypadałoby napisać choć słowo wyjaśnienia.

[@miriamzajfman4305]

Cenzura 🤷‍♀️❗

[@abenorinkowsky]

@@miriamzajfman4305 żydowska

[@miriamzajfman4305]

@@abenorinkowsky Nawet zebym chciala nie moge 🤭😉 - moja matka jest Polka ,katoliczka

[@libglade3696]

@@miriamzajfman4305 Napisałem tylko, że to Niemcy okupowali Warszawę, że nie Polacy.

[@miriamzajfman4305]

@@libglade3696 O co ci chodzi ???🤷‍♀️

[@franciscraft4999]

I do not see any automobiles! Beautiful film.

[@camillaallegrucci1311]

Those were the late '30! Maybe in the US (are you from there?) the situation was already different, but back then even in Italy there were very few cars around. My boyfriend grandfather was exempted from serving on the frontline during WW2 because he had a driver's licence - you get the picture of how unusual that was. I guess Poland was pretty much the same.

[@zizis462]

They were Polish citizens, and Nazi Germany deprived them of their lives. ;(

[@yos5499]

On the fast of 9th of Av, Sunday, 7 August 1938. Zev Jobstinsky spoke before an overflow crowd in the great synagouge of Warsaw, he cried out: "For three years I keep addressing you, Jews of Poland, the Crown of World Jewry...my heart is bleeding for you, dear brethren and sisters, for not seeing that the volcano is about to erupt and spit the fire of destruction....For heaven’s sake! Save your lives, every one of you, as long as there is time - and time is short!" He was booed and they soon perished.

[@khaledkhaled4299]

“For years I keep addressing you, Jews of Palestine, the Crown of World Jewry...my heart is bleeding for you, dear brethren and sisters, for not seeing that the volcano is about to erupt and spit the fire of destruction.... You are surrounded by 450 million Arabs and 2 billion Muslims who despise you more than anything, have their fingers put on the nuclear trigger soon and do not fear death. You have picked the wrong region to mess with. For heaven's sake! Save your lives, go back to where you came from, every one of you, leave Palestine to its people, as long as there is time - and time is short!” Sincerely, a good-hearted Palestinian

[@khaledkhaled4299]

Please don’t boo or dismiss what I’m saying, so that you don’t perish as your poor ancestors did in Warsaw.

[@Janis6566]

​@@khaledkhaled4299Your oriental tiny mind is about to learn, that in the 21st century, numbers and power of weapons counts, not the number of soldiers.

[@Janis6566]

​@@khaledkhaled4299You will be scattered into the desert, and no one will lift even a finger to help you.

[@ip9117]

Beautiful music❤

[@frenchartantiquesparis424]

I think so too... the man who put this up on KZbin is a Polish composer.

[@ip9117]

@@frenchartantiquesparis424 Yes I know I looked him up.I like his other work also.

[@dawidekpieron3859]

Can you tell me more about him and this music please ?

[@frenchartantiquesparis424]

@@dawidekpieron3859 Just Google his name.

[@ip9117]

@@dawidekpieron3859 Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak is the Composer

[@iseeu5]

Was it a big deal to be photograph or recorded??? They are shy but they want to be in it

[@vivianelanthier722]

Back in 1939, it would have been a big deal. For a long time, most people were never filmed. Just to give you an idea, my family was only filmed once and it was in 1959. It's so funny to see us because we were all shy in front of the camera.

[@camillaallegrucci1311]

Yeah, it was a big deal! How much this has changed in less than a century...

[@buzzisonline2895]

This is very sad to see this.

[@dennismiddlebrooks7027]

At 1:16 there is a guy who looks just like a young Klaus Kinski.

[@robertkowal8442]

Most Jews did not speak Polish and were relocated from Russia during the partitions

[@para1324]

Import history. These people suffered so much.

[@rangelso]

Speaks volumes about antisemitism in Poland before war . do jews look opressed here perhaps except these drunks sleeping on street - they apparenty suffered from too much bimber

[@rangelso]

@AreYou5erious if thats not enough watch it 100 times and try to THINK what you see....

[@propriusly]

This appears to have been taken before the Nazis invasion.

[@ysy662]

GERMAN! not 'nazi'! There never was a nation called 'nazis', nor 'nazistan' , but sure as shit there were Germans and Germany.

[@rheinhartsilvento2576]

@@ysy662 Good point

[@ysy662]

@@rheinhartsilvento2576 Because now everybody thinks that the War and the mass slaughter was perpetrated by so called 'nazis' and more and more people don't know who the 'nazis' REALY WERE!

[@juliolopez7231]

@@ysy662 Tell me who the nazis really were?

[@ysy662]

@@juliolopez7231 GERMANS.

[@antonkranz-qn3mk]

Gott segen ihre Seelen

[@neilnachum1]

Could this be Zamenhof Street pre-war? A model of it exists in the Jewish Museum of Warsaw.

[@evivalarte5172]

No, it was Nalewki street - but in the same district of course, so it looks very similar.

[@marianmaslak]

One third of Warsaw in 1939 was jewish.

[@waiata216]

all men no women

[@Guy-lo3ld]

Wow, fascinating and sad, but it's wonderful that it still exists.

[@RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS]

Makes me cry.

[@dayanafer7571]

El camarógrafo sacó su cámara de video año 2035 y grabó a las personas Éstas personas se extrañaron de tan extraña cámara El viajero debió advertirles

[@jorgevives4830]

wow great video!

[@styldsteel1]

You don't understand.

[@tamar4887]

@@styldsteel1 What-💀

[@denisdennehy4549]

I wonder if any of these people survived what was to come?

[@Mps888]

It’s sad

[@Issac-eg5ek]

No it's not

[@Mps888]

@@Issac-eg5ek for you

[@independentandfree6466]

Stop all persecution of people and Apartheid. Sadly, we still have this today.

[@miroslawswigon4464]

Covid lockdown is new global apartheid for everyone. Bilderberg group pact.

[@TurbanLeDurban]

@@miroslawswigon4464 "Covid lockdown is a new Global Apartheid" do you know what Apartheid means?

[@miroslawswigon4464]

@@TurbanLeDurban "Covid lockdown is a new global Apartheid" is a only metaphor. I know very well what he was in the history of South Africa. I come from a communist country in Europe where there were bloody repressions of the military junta red bandits 1945-1989. And now what are vaccine passports, blackmail at work and civil discrimination against the unvaccinated? And this is only the beginning of discrimination and repressions. Watch the police how beating demonstrators in the Netherlands, France, Poland and Germany with batons. Regards from EU.

[@krishna82kc]

Oooo.. look at the little boy ND sitting cute little girl... They even don't know what after that..

[@thomasoluoch7324]

i love Polish Jews!

[@frenchartantiquesparis424]

I love this music..... some good looking young men there.

[@martafiga2555]

Ludzie byli razem spędzali ze sobą czas

[@ewaewa4553]

Wiedli spokojne życie. Nim wybuchła wojna. Która pochłonęła miliony ofiar. Niektórzy ludzie nie powinny byli się urodzić. Taki Hitler, może jakby się dostał do akademii plastycznej. A gdyby został zastrzelony w czasie pierwszej wojny światowej. Tyle nieszczęść by się nie wydarzyło. Chciano go zgładzić, ale miał farta. Na nieszczęście. Nigdy więcej wojny.

[@robertkowal6349]

@@ewaewa4553 nie Hitler to inny by był Amerykanie stworzyli Hitlera

[@sashakalyni]

kto z elekcjii na zoomie? XDD

[@marcelvrska9162]

Why is everobody ot streets? Is it saturday?

[@homoerectus8394]

Orthodox Jews did not integrate with Poles. Entire Jewish families were mainly engaged in trade. They had shops, street stalls and taverns. Entire families made a living from this small trade. That is why there were so many of them on the streets on a normal day. There were also Jews from mixed families, but they worked normally, served in the army, etc.