Auschwitz: Countdown to Liberation
2025
90 minutes
Overview
The last weeks in the Nazi concentration camp revealed through the touching stories of survivors such as Eva Kor and Samuel Modiano. Between suffering and resistance, the documentary explores human courage in inhumane conditions, revealing the hope that flourished even in the darkest moments. A powerful tribute to memory and freedom, essential for not forgetting.
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Top Cast
Pyotr Cywinski
Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Andrzej Kacorzyk
Deputy director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Jochen Boehler
Director of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust studies
Guy Walters
Historian and World War II expert
Lidia Maksymowicz
Auschwitz survivor
Stefania Wernik
Auschwitz survivor
Wladdyslaw Szmyt
Auschwitz survivor
Marian Turski
Holocaust survivor
Oleg Mandic
Holocaust survivor
Eva Kor
Holocaust survivor
Thomas Simon
Holocaust survivor
Gene Klein
Holocaust survivor
Rene Slotkin
Holocaust survivor
Irene Hizme
Holocaust survivor
Zoli-Zvi Schwarz
Holocaust survivor
Lusia Haberfeld
Holocaust survivor
Dario Gabbai
Holocaust survivor
Samuel Modiano
Holocaust survivor
Henia Bryer
Holocaust survivor
Miriam Ziegler
Holocaust survivor
Sally Yassy
Holocaust survivor
Lydia Tischler
Holocaust survivor
Alice Lok Cahana
Holocaust survivor
Paula Stern
Holocaust survivor
Josef Sackar
Holocaust survivor, Sonderkommando
Jakob Silderberg
Holocaust survivor, Sonderkommando
Schlomo Dragon
Holocaust survivor, Sonderkommando
Alexander Vorondsov
Red Army officer/soldier
Ivan Martynushkin
Red Army officer/soldier
Vasily Gromadsky
Red Army officer/soldier
David Dushman
Red Army officer/soldier
Moisey Malkis
Red Army officer/soldier
Isaak Monastyrsky
Red Army officer/soldier
Otari Amaglobely
Red Army officer/soldier
Mykola Karpenko
Red Army officer/soldier
Karl-Heinz Liesenberg
SS-Unterscharfuehrer
Oskar Groening
SS-Unterscharfuehrer
Heberhard Heber
SS-Unterscharfuehrer
Hans Friedrich
Waffen SS, 1st Infantry Brigade
Janina Rochowiak
Eyewitness/Resident of Oswiecim area
Jozef Palupnik
Eyewitness/Resident of Oswiecim area
Marian Domasik
Eyewitness/Resident of Oswiecim area
Massimo De Ambrosis
Narrator (Italian)
Peter Hosking
The Prosecutor
Karel Riebel
Nazi soldier with a dog/Mengele's assistant
Jan Sperka
Josef Mengele
Tomas Hlavsa
Richard Baer
Martin Trobl
Rudolf Hoess
Kristýna Kučerová
Eva Kor (child)
Karolina Kucerova
Miriam Kor (child)
Richard Vanek
Mengele's patient
Joraslav Anosov
Oleg Mandic (child)
Jakub Stupka
SS soldier
Aegir Rexxar Vlci Stesti
Dog
Anita Serio
Auschwitz nurse