Auschwitz - Voices of 44 Survivors
44 Jewish survivors from across Europe recount childhoods in the 1930s, deportation to Auschwitz, and the horror they endured, honoring both their survival and those who never returned.
Before Auschwitz
End of the 1930s, in Occupied Europe. From one day to the next, young men, women, and their families found themselves excluded, persecuted, hunted down, and arrested, simply for being Jewish.
Deportation
Upon their arrival at Auschwitz, families were separated on the unloading platforms. Those who entered the camp were shaved and tattooed. Prisoners could see smoke rising from the huge chimneys.
The Camp
For prisoners, camp life was one of brutal forced labor, daily violence, hunger, thirst, disease, and omnipresent death. In the midst of horror, everyone tried to find a way to survive.
Extermination
The concentration camp deportees became the rare witnesses to mass extermination.
After Auschwitz
In 2006, some of the very few Jewish survivors told their stories on camera. How does one get out of Auschwitz? How do you recover from this hell?
