The Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film remained unseen for 70 years. This documentary tells the extraordinary story of the filming of the camps and the fate of Bernstein’s project, using original archive footage and eyewitness testimonies.

This screening will be introduced by Daniel Kowalsky.

Daniel Kowalsky, lecturer in European Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast, is the author of numerous books and articles on the civil war in Spain, including La Unión Soviética y la guerra civil española (Barcelona, Editorial Crítica, 2003), Stalin and the Spanish Civil War (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004) and History in Dispute: The Spanish Civil War (Detroit: St. James Press, 2005).