The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the subsequent horrors are vividly chronicled via newsreels and photographs. The narration is taken almost entirely from journals and diaries of those who lived–and died–through the course of the occupation, with the number of different narrators diminishing as the film progresses, symbolic of the death of each narrator.

Jerzy Kosiński
Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski

Theodore Bikel
(voice)
Julie Cohen
(voice)

Barbara Rosenblat
(voice)
Nicholas Kepros
(voice)

David Warrilow
(voice)

Lynn Cohen
(voice)
Frederick Neumann
(voice)
Jerry Matz
(voice)
Gregory Gordon
(voice)
Eva Wellisz
(voice)
Sam Tsoutsouvas
(voice)

Radical Evil
Radical Evil

Adolf Island
Adolf Island

The Battle of Normandy: 85 Days in Hell
The Battle of Normandy: 85 Days in Hell

Colette
Colette

Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy
Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy

Days of Glory
Days of Glory
Ghosts of Hiroshima
Ghosts of Hiroshima

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha

My Life Part 2
My Life Part 2

Zeitgeist: The Movie
Zeitgeist: The Movie

Long Is the Road
Long Is the Road