Auschwitz, The Destruction Trilogy ( The First Testimonies / Criminal Doctors / Sonderkommando )

Auschwitz, The Destruction Trilogy (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The First Testimonies / Criminal Doctors / Sonderkommando
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
162 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008-2014 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Emil Weiss

Written By:
Zalmen Gradowski

Miklos Nyiszli
Emil Weiss

Actors:
Josef Mengele ..... Self
Miklos Nyiszli ..... Self
Joseph Baruch ..... Self
Malka Beckerman ..... Self
Scali Delpeyrat ..... Reader: Letter from Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
Abraham Dragon ..... Self - Überlebender
Dan Dragon ..... Self
Shlomo Dragon ..... Self - Überlebender
Szalma Dragon ..... Self
Alter Feinsilber ..... Self
Daniel Finkelstajn ..... Self
Erich Forst ..... Self
Zalmen Gradowski ..... Self
Jankiel Handelsman ..... Self
Shlomo Kirszenbaum ..... Self
Zalmen Landowski ..... Self
Lejb Langfus ..... Self
Maxime Le Gall ..... Reader: Letter from Szalma Dragon
Zalmen Lewenthal ..... Self
Adrien Melin ..... Reader: Letter from Alter Feinsilber
Otto Moll ..... Self - SS-Hauptscharführer, Verantwortlicher im KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau für den
Erich Mußfeldt ..... Self - SS-Oberscharführer und Leiter der Krematorien im KZ Majdanek und KZ Ausc
David Nencel ..... Self
Miklos Nyiszli ..... Self - Mediziner
Dov Paisikovic ..... Self
Lemke Pliszko ..... Self
Henryk Tauber ..... Self
Schlomo Venezia ..... Self
Samuel Vittoz ..... Reader: Letter from Henryk Tauber
Emil Weiss ..... Introducion
Eliezer Welbel ..... Self
Jukel Wrobel ..... Self

Synopsis:

Auschwitz, the First Testimonies: In this moving documentary, five testimonies of French survivors of the horrors of Auschwitz which were published just after the war, are cited by voice-over, while the camera moves around the remnants of the Auschwitz camps. Criminal Doctors Auschwitz: In KZ Auschwitz, infamous Nazi doctors as Mengele and Schumann performed horrible and mostly fatal experiments 'in vivo' on thousands of deportees, women, men and children, in order to find ways of fast and massive sterilization of 'inferior races', and methods to promote the fertility of the German 'Herrenvolk'. This documentary, the last in Weiss' trilogy 'Hourban' (i.e. Destruction), filmed amidst the ruins of Auschwitz, is based on testimonies of witnesses, mostly deported (Jewish) doctors, to the War Crimes Tribunal of Nürnberg in 1946. Sonderkommando Auschwitz-Birkenau: The 'special commandos' were Jewish prisoners who were forced to operate the crematoria of the annihilation camps such as KZ Birkenau. The oral testimonies of very rare survivors and eyewitnesses, and readings from manuscripts, written and hidden by these Sonderkommandos before they were all killed and cremated, evoke in this movie the horrors of Nazi barbarity.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 17 June, 2021.