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THE PALMNICKEN TRAGEDY

ПАЛЬМНИКЕНСКАЯ ТРАГЕДИЯ

By Andrey PROSKURYAKOV

Documentary - Completed 2022

On the night of January 31, 1945, in the town of Palmnicken in East Prussia (now the settlement of Yantarny, Kaliningrad Region, Russia), Nazis shot on the seashore about 3,000 prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp, mostly women and teenage girls. Before that, approximately 2,000 prisoners we

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- RUSSIA, GERMANY, ISRAEL, USA
- Languages
- RUSSIAN, GERMAN, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 89 mn
- Director(s)
- Andrey PROSKURYAKOV
- Producer(s)
- Anna ADAMSKAYA, Anastasia VELSKAYA
- Synopsis
- On the night of January 31, 1945, in the town of Palmnicken in East Prussia (now the settlement of Yantarny, Kaliningrad Region, Russia), Nazis shot on the seashore about 3,000 prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp, mostly women and teenage girls. The advancing Soviet troops reached the execution site just one day after the execution.
  
  Three main characters of the film – Martin Bergau who was a member of the Hitler Youth in February 1945; Gunter Nitsch, an American writer of German descent; and Simcha Koplowicz, a descendant of the surviving prisoner Sheva Koplowicz – are recalling this story before our eyes.