Film · Crime, Documentary, History, TV Movie, War

The Death Train (2019)

In Iasi, Romania, from June 28 to July 6, 1941, nearly 15 000 Jews were murdered in the course of a horrifying pogrom. At the time, the programmed extermination of European Jews had not yet began. After the war, the successive communist governments did all they could to ensure the Iasi pogrom would be forgotten. It was not until November of 2004 that Romania recognized for the first time its direct responsibility in the pogrom. All that remains of this massacre are about a hundred photographs taken as souvenirs by german and romanian soldiers, and a few remaining survivors.

Director

Nellu Cohn, William Karel

Country

France

Language

French

Release date

November 23, 2019

Original title

La Mort en face, le pogrom de Iași