Death Camp Treblinka: Survivor Stories is a documentary about the final two survivors of the Nazi death camp called Treblinka. Treblinka was arguably the deadliest camp in Nazi history, however, it is also one of the lesser known camps. The Nazis worked very hard to cover this particular camp up. They destroyed all of the building and burnt all the bodies. Although and estimated 850,000 people died here, there was little to no evidence of what occurred. Film director Tzipi Baider created the documentary to prove that Treblinka was one of the most deadly and horrific Nazi camp and to raise awareness of its existence. Death Camp Treblinka: Survivor Stories is an intriguing documentary that exposes more hidden horrors of the holocaust and examines the powerful resilience of the human spirit.
In order to accomplish the goal of exposing the camp and its secrets, Tzipi Baider contacted two survivors of Treblinka, the only ones left to tell the story of what happened in the camp. Kalman Taigman and Samuel Willenberg both beat the odds and survived the holocaust and Treblinka. Taigman was born in Poland in 1923. In 1942 he and his mother were entrapped in the larges Nazi ghetto, Warsaw. They worked there until the
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He attributes this particular documentary’s shock value to passing details, such as Willenberg finding the coats of his sisters. He says that “the most disturbing footage was the film about daily life in Treblinka because it was made to celebrate the Holocaust” (Crace). He also found that because Willenberg and Taigman were both in their 80s, were the sole survivors of the camp, and this footage could be the only time they get to tell their stories made the documentary that much more compelling. He does not say that the film was successful or otherwise, however, though his tone suggests that he enjoyed the