• Director(s):

    LANZMANN (CLAUDE)

  • Producer(s):

    SYNECDOCHE, ARTE FRANCE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2017

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Ada Lichtman was faced with absolute horror from the start: the day the Germans invaded Poland, all the men in Wieliczka – a little town near Kracow where she lived – were rounded up by the Germans, driven to a nearby forest and executed. 

The blood-soaked bodies were laid out in a semi-circle, feet together and heads towards the edge as an artistic statement from the killers. From that moment on, Ada was haunted by a singular question: not "will I live or die?", but "how will I be killed?" This went on until her arrival in Sobibor, the last stop of the journey, where more than 250.000 Jews were exterminated in gas chambers; this, until the uprising of October 14, 1943. She is one of the mere 50 people who survived.