1380976
1380976

Goodbye Theresienstadt

2015-05-05 en 59m
Documentary
Poignant, compelling, dramatic Danish documentary from 2015. Over 7,000 Jews escaped from Denmark to Sweden when the occupying Germans tried to round up Danish Jews in October 1943. Yet regrettably, 470 Jewish men, women and children were captured and put into cattle cars bound for the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Seventy years after they were miraculously rescued from Theresienstadt, six Danish Jews who were children at the time return to the concentration camp where they suffered for a year and a half, consumed by hunger, anxiety and fear of what tomorrow might bring. The six individual stories are intertwined, as the survivors tell of their failed escape to Sweden, the horrible journey to Theresienstadt, the appalling conditions in the concentration camp, and finally of their rescue from Theresienstadt in the final weeks of the war.

Director

Jonatan Jerichow

Director

Carl Otto Dethlefsen

Cinematography

Preben Hjorth

Cinematography

Itay Gross

Drone Operator

Armada Films

Editor

Niels Ostenfeld

Status

Released

Countries

  • Denmark

Companies

  • DR
  • STV Production