Kinderblock in Birkenau – a film by Chochana Boukhobza

Sunday 21 June 2020dimanche 28 juin 2020

 the Shoah Memorial invites you to see

the film "Un kinderblock à Birkenau"

Un kinderblock à Birkenau a film by Chochana Boukhobza, Documentaire, France, 2020, 52'. Production Les Films d’Ici. Co-production Ab Productions. Distribution All History.

With the voice of Daniel Mesguich

This broadcast is made possible through a partnership between the channel Toute l'Histoire and the Shoah Memorial.

Synopsis:

Upon their arrival in the extermination camp ofAuschwitz-B, all children under 16 are sent with their mothers to the gas chambers. But in September 1943, the Nazis who were preparing the visit of the International Red Cross to the Terezin ghetto transformed into a model ghetto, imagine a Machiavellian plan: to create at the very heart of the Birkenau extermination camp, a model camp for the Czech Jews, 400 meters from the crematoria.
In this « family camp ", men and women are not separated, their children are not exterminated, and even allowed to gather under the guidance of their educators, in a Kinderblock (children’s unit).
The "family camp" remains a real enigma for historians. The film tells this untold and unknown story to the general public through the prism of original drawings that we have animated.

A few words from Chochana Boukhobza:

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A kinderblock in Birkenau – documentary