What happens when compliance becomes complicity? The Warsaw Ghetto's impossible choices.
Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestOn 1 September 1939, Germany invades Poland, after which a regulation was promulgated that all Polish Jews should move to the new Warsaw Ghetto. As in all the ghettos, a Judenrat was appointed and was responsible for the administration of the ghetto. The miniseries tells the moral dilemmas faced by Adam Czerniaków, head of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto, who had to carry out orders of the German authorities, including sending Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp.
Acting
Donald Sutherland's crushing portrayal of impossible authority.
Direction
Avnet refuses to sensationalize the unspeakable.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes institutional language.
Leelee Sobieski
Tosia Altmann
Hank Azaria
Mordechaj Anielewicz
David Schwimmer
Icchak 'Antek' Cukierman
Jon Voight
SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop
Donald Sutherland
Adam Czerniaków
Stephen Moyer
Kazik Rotem
Sadie Frost
Ziviah Lubetkin
Radha Mitchell
Mira Fruchner
Mili Avital
Devorah Baron
Konstanze Breitebner
Ruthie Altmann
Veronica De Laurentiis
Nurse
Eric Lively
Arie Wilner
Cary Elwes
Dr. Fritz Hippler
Andy Nyman
Calel Wasser
Jesper Christensen
General Krüger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hank Azaria learned Polish and Yiddish for his role as resistance leader Mordechaj Anielewicz, who actually died in the bunker depicted.
This was among the first major dramatizations to center Jewish agency rather than victimhood, preceding Schindler's List's shift in Holocaust narratives.
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