Originally televised on HBO in 1989 and released on VHS in 1992.

From diaries and monographs written in the Lódź Ghetto by Oskar Rosenfeld, Oskar Singer, David Sierakowiak, Jozef Klementynowski, Irene Liebman and others and from The chronicle of the Lódź ghetto edited by Lucjan Dobroszycki.

Executive producer, Stephen Samuels ; original score by Wendy Blackstone ; still photo cinematography, Gary Becker and Kathryn Taverna ; cinematography, Jozef Piwkowski, Eugene Squires ; film edited by Kathryn Taverna ; ghetto photographers, Mendel Grossman, Henryk Ross ; original color pictures of the ghetto provided by Erhard Löcker, Löcker Verlag, Vienna ; contemporary photos of ghetto district by Eva Rubinstein ; music editor, Kathryn Taverna ; chief historical consultant, Lucjan Dobroszycki.

Voices: Jerzy Kosinski, Nicholas Kepros, Barbara Rosenblat, David Warrilow, Gregory Gordon, Alan Adelson, Theodore Bikel.

Chronicles the Nazi persecution of the Jews of Lódź from German occupation beginning on September 8, 1939 to liberation by the Russians on January 17, 1945. Focuses on the forcible move of Jews into the ghetto, the harsh conditions within, deportation to Auschwitz, and the survival of the few Jews who remained behind and hid in the ghetto. Depicts the ghetto's Nazi-appointed Jewish leader, Mordecai Ḥayim Rumkowski. Utilizes historical film footage and still photographs, some contemporary footage, and narration from historical diaries and monographs. Much of the historical material was made at great risk and left deliberately by the doomed community members.

DVD format, NTSC, region 1.

"International Film Critics Prize"--Container.