Where did the Nazi's send his brother and sister?
Does anyone know , it's never made clear in the film after they return.
sharePeople from the Warsaw ghetto were sent to a death camp called Treblinka about 100 km north east of Warsaw. People were killed immediately only arrival so it's very unlikely that any of Szpilman's relatives survived.
shareThis is just in the movie , but his sister and brother came back on trucks. I know they were sent to die eventually , but what I wonder is where they were sent and allowed to come back. Watch the movie again and you'll see what I mean.
shareI don't have the book or film at hand at the moment and I'm not sure what you're referring to. It might be that Henryk and Halina weren't selected to go to the Umschlagplatz with the rest of the family, but they then decided to join them, which is why they turned up later at the Umschlagplatz on trucks.
I can't really remember this from the film.
Maybe my memory fails me, but I do not remember the brother and sister coming back?
shareThere's a part where the brother and sister is selected to go somewhere then they come back again around the part when the rest of the family is waiting outside sitting on their luggage with a women behind them saying "Why did I do it".
I also want answers like the OP as i'm unclear why they were sent away and able to come back too.
I assumed they begged to be together with their family.
Since they were both young and fit, being selected only meant they might be sent off to the labor camp. Although for females' fate if judging by the history, might be rape or forced into "serving" the German soldiers.
Halina in the film told her mother that both of them wanted to be with the rest of the family, after which the camera changed to Brody who whispered that they were so stupid.
The part where Henryk and Halina were separated from their family was before they were sent to the concentration camps. It was that scene were they were made to stand in lines and a few were chosen by the SS to be separated (to go where? the movie did not mention) but after a few minutes in the movie, Henryk and Halina join their family shortly before they are stuffed inside the trains. I believe none of his family survived.
shareThey were mostly likely going to work in the camps. The father and mother were going to be sent somewhere to be gassed. Now if they didn't go back to the parents and Władysław maybe all three or two of the three children might of the survived the war instead of just one.
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