Shoah Page #5

[ Lanzmann ]

Was there a Jewish cemetery in Auschwitz?

[ Interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]

It still exists. it's closed now.

- It still exists?

- [ Interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]

Yes.

[ Lanzmann ]

Closed? What does that mean?

- [ Interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]

- [ Pietryra Replies ]

They don't bury there now.

[ Congregation Singing Polish Hymn]

[ Lanzmann, In French]

Was there a synagogue in Wlodawa?

- [ Interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]

- [Speaking Polish]

[ Interpreter #1, In French]

Yes, and it's very beautiful.

I Polish 1

When Poland was ruled by the czars,

that synagogue already existed.

It's even older than the Catholic church.

[ Continues, Faint]

- [ Man Speaking Polish]

- It's no longer used.

[ Man Continues]

There's no one to go to it.

[ Lanzmann, In French]

These buildings haven't changed?

- [ Interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]

- [ Man Speaking Polish]

[ Interpreter #1, In French ] Not at all.

There were barrels of herrings here,

and the Jews sold fish.

[ Man Continues]

There were stalls, small shops,

Jewish business, as the gentleman says.

- [ Man Continues]

- That's Barenholz's house.

- [ Man Continues]

- He sold wood.

[ Man Continues]

Lipschitz's store was there.

He sold cloth.

- [ Man Continues]

- [ Lanzmann ] This was Lichtenstein's.

- Lichtenstein, tak.

- [ Interpreter #1 ] Lichtenstein, oui.

- [ Lanzmann ] What was there, opposite?

- [ Interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]

A food store.

- [ Lanzmann ] A Jewish store?

- [ Interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]

[ Interpreter #1 ]

Oui.

There was a notions shop here,

it sold thread, needles, odds and ends,

and there were also three barbers.

PAN FILIPOWICZ:

- [ Lanzmann ] Was that fine house Jewish?

- [ Interpreter #1 ] it's Jewish.

[ Filipowicz Replies]

- And this small one?

- [ Interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]

- [ Filipowicz Replies ]

- Also.

- And the one behind it?

- [ Filipowicz Replies]

These were all Jewish.

- This one on the left, too?

- [ Interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]

- [ Filipowicz Replies]

- That one too.

- [ Filipowicz Continues]

- [ Lanzmann ] Who lived in it? Borenstein?

[ Filipowicz]

Borenstein.

- [ Filipowicz Continues]

- He was in the cement business.

He was very handsome, and cultivated.

[ Filipowicz Continues ]

Here there was a blacksmith

named Tepper.

- [ Lanzmann] Oui.

- [ Interpreter #1 ] It was a Jewish house.

A shoemaker lived here.

- [ Lanzmann ] What was his name?

- [ Interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]

- [ Filipowicz Replies]

- [ Lanzmann ] Yankel?

- [ Filipowicz Replies]

- [ Interpreter #1 ] Yes.

[ Lanzmann ]

You get the feeling Wlodawa was a Jewish city.

[ Interpreter #1 Speaking Polish]

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