The Lonely Struggle: Marek Edelman, Last Hero of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1988)

In this documentary, the sole surviving member of the Jewish high command looks back on the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, a unique event in Jewish as well as non-Jewish history: for the first time the Jews took up arms against the Nazis. In 1943 the remaining 50,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto realized that there was no hope that any of them would survive the holocaust. Dr. Marek Edelman, who never left Poland, is now a cardiologist in Lodz where in the 1980s he played a leading role in the then underground trade union Solidarity.

Released

1988-01-01

Genres

Documentary

Runtime

60 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Willy Lindwer