Never lose hope. Symcha Rotem about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

INTERVIEWEE: Symcha Rotem
INTERVIEWEE’S BIOGRAPHY AND DETAILED THEMES DEVELOPMENT: sztetl.org.pl/en/oral-history...
INTERVIEWER: Agnieszka Jęksa
OPERATOR: Katarzyna Kural
RECORDING DATE: 19th April 2013
RECORDING COPYRIGHT: POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews
THE MOST IMPORTANT THEMES:
00:00:05 - Other insurgents of the Warsaw ghetto, their fate after the uprising.
00:01:31 - Hiding after leaving the ghetto, opinion about Poles who did not want to rescue Jews.
00:03:16 - Polish family killed for hiding Jews, denunciators, situation of Jews during the war.
00:04:54 - Birth of an idea about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, motivation.
00:10:29 - Situation in the ghetto.
00:11:42 - Leaving the ghetto, blackmailers; hiding in an acquaintance’s flat.
00:18:48 - Impressions after leaving the ghetto.
00:19:32 - Organizing other fighters’ escape from the ghetto.
00:26:25 - Attitude to one’s own heroism.
00:27:23 - The message “Never lose hope”.
00:27:44 - Help provided by Stefan Pokropek.
00:33:03 - Photos of Stefan Pokropek and his daughter.
00:33:13 - Young generation and its part.
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