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Released
2020 · FILM

Auschwitz - One Day

Directed by
Runtime
89 min
Language
DE
DocumentaryWarCrimeHistory

Synopsis

Today, the word "Auschwitz" is synonymous with the Holocaust. Thousands of Jews died there every day. Through a combination of acted scenes, photos, and graphics, the film depicts a single day in May 1944. The narrative is based on a unique document: a photo album created by the SS perpetrators themselves. Almost all of the photos were taken at the end of May 1944, over the course of just a few days. They depict the brutal routine, the arrival of the victims, their "selection" on the ramp, the confiscation of their belongings, and the transformation of those not immediately killed into shaved, uniformed slaves. One survivor is Irina Weiss, who recognizes her little brothers and her mother in a photo—waiting unsuspectingly near the crematorium. The SS photographers captured all of this. Their identities are known today: one of them was Bernhard Walter, a "Stabsscharführer" who lived with his wife and three children near the extermination camp.

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Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Christoph SchuhmacherShot by Anthony R Miller

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