The Longest Roll Call (First Film - "From The Auschwitz Chronicle")

The story of the first and longest roll call in the Auschwitz camp`s history, which occured on 6/7 July 1940. The second transport to Auschwitz had just arrived. Approximately 1500 people were forced to endure the roll call. The Nazi tortures showed what they were capable of and established the rules that would apply in the camp. The place where this roll call occured, between the fistr and third barracks, appears today exactly as it did in 1940. Images include several drawings illustrating the roll call as well as camp photographs of prisoners whose testimonies we will quote.