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Treblinka's Last Witness

Treblinka's Last Witness

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 15, 2012

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

85%

Original Title

Treblinka's Last Witness

Production Companies

WLRN-TV, BBC

Director

Spike Geilinger

Description

Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, the last two survivors of the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, recount the horrors they experienced during the war and talk about their lives after their escape in a prisoner uprising in 1943. Willenberg would go on to become a hero of the 1944 Warsaw uprising while Taigman would be called as a witness during the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann.