The Last Fighters to be shown at Museum Memorial de la Shoah in Paris on April 6, 2008:
http://www.memorialdelashoah.org/b_content/getContentFromNumLinkAction.do?itemId=888&type=1

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“In The Last Fighters, filmmakers Yael Kipper and Ronen Zaretzky draw on the memories of six Jews who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the largest organized Jewish resistance to the Nazis. Although in their 80s, the interviewees still recall events from over 60 years ago in vivid detail. In August 1942, after 300,000 Jews were taken from the ghetto, Jewish youth groups set aside political differences and formed the Jewish Fighting Organization, a unified front against the Nazis that-in preparation for battle-smuggled weapons and explosives into the ghetto. When the Germans arrived to remove the remaining 50,000 Jews the following year, they were met with surprisingly stiff resistance, until the Nazis began burning buildings, after which only a handful of fighters evaded death or capture. Computer-generated graphics and maps of Warsaw are intercut with contemporary images of ghetto buildings to help illustrate this history, but the emphasis is on the participants' remembrances of the uprising (the filmmakers accompany these former resistance fighters to important sites-such as the
sewer through which they escaped-and later to an awards ceremony in Poland). Although the subtitles sport a couple of typos and grammatical errors, The Last Fighters is still a solid film that covers an important facet of Holocaust history.”

J. Wadland, Video Librarian