:00:08
The bread is for Poles
on the Aryan side. Not Jews!
:00:11
''On the authority
of the commissar's office. . .
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. . .23 prisoners were executed
at 1 0 this morning. ''
:00:19
These were innocent people.
:00:21
I'm sick of it!
:00:22
Watching, waiting, and standing by
being passive. I won't do it anymore!
:00:26
The largest armies in the world have
not been able to defeat the Nazis.
:00:30
What makes you think. . .
:00:32
. . .a handful of untrained Jewish
citizens with pistols will prevail?
:00:36
We can and will fight our enemy now!
:00:43
And action.
:00:46
The biggest difference between Uprising
and every film about the Holocaust. . .
:00:52
. . .is that in Uprising, Jews resist.
It's a story of armed resistance.
:00:57
And that was a story
that I had never seen.
:01:01
That interested me from
the beginning. It interests me today.
:01:05
It led me to examine a long period,
seven years now, from when I started. . .
:01:11
. . .the issue of resistance in general.
:01:14
I'm a veteran of the Polish
armed services.
:01:17
Then you are a fighter, huh?
:01:20
It created an interesting question:
why were the Jews labeled as passive. . .
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. . .when other victims of genocide
were never so labeled?
:01:31
I don't think anybody's heard the
Rwandans described as passive. . .
:01:35
. . .or the Cambodians who were murdered
by the Khmer Rouge as passive.
:01:40
Or what happened in Bosnia-Serbia,
''passive'' was not attached.
:01:46
I kept thinking, ''Why were
Jews considered passive?''
:01:51
When you take the example of the
Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the largest. . .
:01:58
. . .single example of resistance on
every level. And you walk backwards. . .