Jakob the Liar — Poland
Jakob, a Jewish man in the ghetto, claims to have heard a Soviet radio broadcast — and the rumour of imminent liberation spreads desperate hope through a population facing deportation.
The Łódź Ghetto was the second-largest in occupied Poland, holding over 200,000 people at its peak. Established in 1940, it was one of the last ghettos liquidated — in August 1944, the remaining 70,000 inhabitants were deported to Auschwitz. Unlike the Warsaw Ghetto, the Łódź Ghetto produced no armed uprising, partly because the Judenrat cooperated with German demands.