‘33 Photos From the Ghetto’: Documenting the Warsaw Uprising

A startling record of the Jewish prison in the heart of Warsaw, Poland, by an amateur photographer.

A scene from "33 Photos From the Ghetto." Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski/HBO

TV-14 | 1h 15m | Documentary | 2026

Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski was a firefighter who wasn’t allowed to do his job when he was most needed. During the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, the occupying National Socialists forced the city’s fire department to passively watch as the regime burned down entire buildings just to murder the Jewish resistance fighters barricaded inside.