Ambulance

Ambulance (1961)

Drama

In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the incident serves as a metaphor for the horror of the Holocaust, and provides a powerful trigger for discussion of the disturbing issues raised by the film. The figure of the children's’ teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka.

Director: Janusz Morgenstern

Casts

	Zbigniew Józefowicz as SS-man (uncredited)
	Leopold Rene Nowak as Driver (uncredited)
	Marek Sniatkiewicz as Boy (uncredited)
	Bogusław Sochnacki as Watchman (uncredited)

Crew