4 real historical locations · 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 4 real historical locations 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 →The site of the Sonderkommando revolt of October 1944. Members of the Jewish prisoner work detail blow up the crematorium using explosives smuggled in by wom...
On 7 October 1944, approximately 250 Sonderkommando members staged the only armed uprising at Birkenau. Crematorium IV was destroyed. All rebels were killed in the aftermath.
View location →The vast storage compound where the Sonderkommando sort valuables, clothes, and belongings confiscated from arriving deportees before they are gassed.
Camp slang called this area 'Kanada' because Canada symbolised wealth and plenty. Women assigned here secretly pass gunpowder to the men planning the revolt.
View location →The forced-labour factory where Jewish women workers, including Rosa and Mala, smuggle small amounts of gunpowder hidden in their clothing to pass to the Son...
Four young women — Roza Robota, Ala Gartner, Estera Wajcblum, and Regina Safirsztajn — were arrested for the smuggling. They were publicly hanged on 6 January 1945.
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