MICHKAN WORLD PRODUCTIONS

This film features 4 testimonies, written as early as 1945. They describe the functioning of Auschwitz as a concentration camp complex as well as the route of the victims in the process of destruction implemented in the various sites.

Next to the main camp Auschwitz I, concentration camp, are:

– three kilometers from Auschwitz II Birkenau concentration camp but also and above all extermination, -the Rajsko laboratories, the center of biological and medical research of the Third Reich,
-the Union Werke arms factory and other factories and subsidiaries of large German companies such as Siemens, DAW, Krupp.
-and seven kilometers away is the Auschwitz III Monowitz camp which supplied labor to the « Buna » plant owned by the largest German petrochemical group, IG Farben.

To this set, we must add about forty auxiliary camps, agricultural farms and various « kommandos ». The Nazi project implemented at Auschwitz is therefore based on the convergence of 4 activities: concentration, extermination, industry and science. The testimonies of this film, that of Dr. Marc Klein on Auschwitz I and Rajsko, that of Suzanne Birnbaum and Dr. Robert Levy on Auschwitz II Birkenau and that of Dr. Robert Waitz on Auschwitz III Monowitz have all four summers written in the days that followed their return from captivity. This immediacy between the events lived and their writing gives these testimonies all their singularity and allows us to get as close as possible to the reality of Auschwitz and those who did not survive it. The production bias is precisely that of any human absence from the screen.