1 real historical location · Poland
Tim Blake Nelson's devastating film set in Auschwitz-Birkenau, following Sonderkommando — Jewish prisoners forced to work in the crematoria — who planned the only armed uprising in the camp in October 1944. A brutal examination of impossible moral choices.
CinemaMapped has mapped 1 real historical location where the story takes place, spanning Poland.
Jewish Sonderkommando — prisoners forced to operate the crematoria — stage the October 1944 revolt, detonating explosives smuggled by women workers from the ...
On 7 October 1944 Sonderkommando members in Krematorium IV detonated explosives smuggled by four Jewish women factory workers. The uprising destroyed one crematorium. All 451 Sonderkommando involved were killed. The f...
View location →