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CCA 5 Saturday 18th October
8-15-9.45 pm
The Baluty Ghetto (Ghetto jménem Baluty)
Pavel Stingl
Czech Republic 2008 / 87 Minutes
A
place in the middle of Europe, marked by the horror of the Nazi's racial
hatred: today, the houses in which 200,000 people died during the war
are occupied by new inhabitants..
Before World War II, Baluty was a feared criminal district of Lodz. Following
their occupation of Poland, the Nazis turned the neighbourhood into a
Jewish ghetto for 160,000 inhabitants. A year later in the autumn of 1941,
five transports of Czech Jews arrived.
These assimilated Central Europeans found themselves amidst the highly traditional
local Hasidic population, who spoke Yiddish - for them, a foreign language.
They were made to suffer not only by the Nazi regulations, but by the
Jewish ghetto council, which hated them for being different. Of 5,000
deportees, only 240 individuals survived the war.
Today, the dilapidated houses of the Baluty district are inhabited by a highly unusual social group which differs distinctly from the remaining population of Lodz... as if the borders of the ghetto still existed.
The link which brings together these apparently disparate images are pictures
from Henrik Ross's unique collection of ghetto photographs, which were
only rediscovered posthumously several years ago.
8-15-9.45 pm
The Baluty Ghetto (Ghetto jménem Baluty)
Pavel Stingl
Czech Republic 2008 / 87 Minutes
A
place in the middle of Europe, marked by the horror of the Nazi's racial
hatred: today, the houses in which 200,000 people died during the war
are occupied by new inhabitants..
Before World War II, Baluty was a feared criminal district of Lodz. Following
their occupation of Poland, the Nazis turned the neighbourhood into a
Jewish ghetto for 160,000 inhabitants. A year later in the autumn of 1941,
five transports of Czech Jews arrived.
These assimilated Central Europeans found themselves amidst the highly traditional
local Hasidic population, who spoke Yiddish - for them, a foreign language.
They were made to suffer not only by the Nazi regulations, but by the
Jewish ghetto council, which hated them for being different. Of 5,000
deportees, only 240 individuals survived the war.
Today, the dilapidated houses of the Baluty district are inhabited by a highly unusual social group which differs distinctly from the remaining population of Lodz... as if the borders of the ghetto still existed.
The link which brings together these apparently disparate images are pictures
from Henrik Ross's unique collection of ghetto photographs, which were
only rediscovered posthumously several years ago.
The Baluty Ghetto is a timeless essay on a stigmatised place.
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