4 real historical locations · Poland
Laszlo Nemes' Hungarian film, shot in extreme close-up, follows Saul Auslaender, a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau forced to assist in the genocide he is part of. When he finds a body he believes is his son's, he embarks on a desperate mission to give the boy a proper burial.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Poland.
A Sonderkommando prisoner attempts to give a proper burial to a child he believes is his son.
The Sonderkommando were Jewish prisoners forced to work in the crematoria under threat of death. In October 1944 they launched the only armed uprising within Auschwitz, destroying Crematorium IV. All participants were...
View location →Saul carries the body of the boy he claims as his son through the very machinery of the Holocaust — the gas chamber undressing room and the cremation furnaces.
Crematorium II at Birkenau operated from March 1943. Its underground gas chambers and four furnaces killed and cremated up to 1,440 people per day. The Sonderkommando forced to operate it were murdered every few month...
View location →The prisoners' barracks adjacent to the crematoria — where Saul and the Sonderkommando sleep yards from the gas chambers they are forced to operate.
Approximately 2,200 Jewish prisoners served as Sonderkommando at Birkenau. Four survived the war to give testimony. In October 1944, 250 staged a revolt and destroyed Crematorium IV using explosives smuggled in by wom...
View location →The site of the Sonderkommando revolt of October 7, 1944 — the only armed uprising within the Auschwitz complex.
On October 7, 1944 the Sonderkommando destroyed Crematorium IV with smuggled explosives. Three SS men were killed. All 250 revolting prisoners were subsequently killed. The four women who smuggled the explosives were ...
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