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In the days following the Red Army’s entrance into the concentration camp zone of Auschwitz-Birkenau in January 1945, several manuscripts concealed in makeshift wrappings were found buried in the vicinity of the crematoriums. Three of them were written in Yiddish. Their authors were Sonderkommando, "special units" of deportees in charge of operating the crematoriums and annex installations of the death industry conceived by the Nazis: undressing room, gas chamber, ovens and incineration pits. These texts are the most terrifying and perhaps the most authentic literature about what the Nazis called “the final solution of the Jewish question.” Four sonnderkommando made sworn statements before courts just after their liberation. These manuscripts, written at the very time of their functioning, and the testimonies made in the weeks that followed, reveal what the Nazis sought to conceal and erase at any price: how the extermination process was conducted at Auschwitz.

France - 2007 - 52 mn - Betacam Digital • 16/9 - Colour and B&W

Director Emil Weiss Writer Emil Weiss Camera Pierre Maillis Laval, Emil Weiss Sound Bruno Auzet, Marc Nouyrigat Editing Florence Bresson Music Alexandra Joan

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