:09:04
. . .but this concerns only small towns.
:09:07
It is impossible such a thing
could happen in Warsaw.
:09:11
He was trying to care for the sick. . .
:09:17
. . .and make sure schools kept going.
Honorable things in his mind.
:09:22
But he wasn't able to see
the imminent danger. . .
:09:26
. . .that everyone was in.
:09:28
On July 22, 1942, German authorities
give Czerniakow the dreaded word...
:09:34
... that all Jews will be deported.
:09:37
This will include the children
whom he desperately hoped to protect.
:09:42
No exemptions.
Men, women and children.
:09:45
The old and the young.
When he heard ''all'' . . .
:09:49
. . .he refused to sign
the final order of deportation. . .
:09:54
. . .and that's the moment
he took his own life.
:09:57
When Czerniakow committed suicide,
Antek hated him.
:10:01
He felt it an act of a coward.
:10:03
If you're going to take your life,
take a few Germans with you.
:10:09
Czerniakow, who was in a position
of authority. . . .
:10:13
Had he said, ''People,
you are going to your death.
:10:17
Don't surrender.
:10:18
Defend yourselves with whatever
you have, against the deportation. ''
:10:23
This would have had
a colossal importance.
:10:28
The moment he knew
what was going on. . .
:10:31
. . .what was really the intention
of the Germans, that's what he did.
:10:36
What could he do more than that?
:10:39
From July 23 to September 1 2,
deportations continue...
:10:43
...block by block,
neighborhood by neighborhood.
:10:47
Yet many still
do not realize the truth.
:10:51
Hunger was terrible.
:10:53
So at the Umschlagplatz. . .
:10:55
. . .Germans handed out three kilos
of bread and one kilo of marmalade. . .