The Exit of the Trains

A documentary about the victims of the 1941 Jassy Pogrom. On June 29, 1941, the Jewish residents of the city of Iasi were rounded up and beaten, shops and homes were looted, and most of the men were shot or crowded onto trains, where they later died of asphyxiation. While Germans took part in the pogrom, the majority of the perpetrators were Romanian policemen, military officers and civilians. The film lists from A to Z , the names of 13000 victims who died , illustrating them with photographs from passports and family albums The film was premiered internationally in Berlinale Forum section 2020.