Video history | Roll-call square
For most prisoners of the German camp Auschwitz, a roll call, during which the number of prisoners was checked, was not a time of respite but a harbinger of more hours of torment. The roll call square at the Auschwitz I camp was initially located on the former pre-war horse riding arena of the military barracks. Each day in the morning, before going to work, prisoners had to be recalculated. Many such roll calls, held in unfavourable weather. Prisoners had to stand at attention the whole time and couldn’t leave the ranks for any reason. For many of them the roll-call square was a place, where they lost their lives.
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Artworks used in movie:
Mieczyslaw Koscielniak, "Roll call at base camp" 1972-73.
Mieczyslaw Koscielniak, "Evening roll call," 1972-73.
Wincenty Gawron, "Roll call 1941/1942," 1964.
Jan Baraś Komski, "Roll call," 1970-80.
Waldemar Nowakowski, "The selection - every 10th".
Jan Komski, "Public flogging," 1970-80.
Jerzy Potrzebowski, "In anticipation of being taken to the gas," 1950.
Jerzy Adam Brandhuber, "Roll call - July 1943," 1946.
Jerzy Potrzebowski, "Loading the sick onto the car," 1950.
Franciszek Wieczorkowski, "Working at the roller," 1942.
Jerzy Adam Brandhuber, "Squatting," 1953.
Jan Baraś Komski, "Collective gallows," 1990-97.
Jan Baraś Komski, "After the job - a parade," 1970-80.