Auschwitz - Voices of 44 Survivors

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. They would soon be deported far from home, to a place that became the ultimate symbol of horror: Auschwitz, Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp.

Upon their arrival at Auschwitz, families were separated on the unloading platforms. Those who entered the camp were shaved off and tattooed. Prisoners could see smoke rising from the huge chimneys. What's all this about? And what happened to the elderly and children after they got off the Holocaust trains? 

For prisoners, life in camp 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… 

The concentration camp deportees became the rare witnesses to mass extermination. 

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? How do you recall and recount the atrocities of the camp? And how can we pass on the memory of the Holocaust?