Choosing One's Way - Resistance in Auschwitz Birkenau

This documentary deals with the little-known resistance of summer 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Through the smuggling of gunpowder from a nearby munitions factory, the inmates succeed in rising up against their oppressors and in the destruction of Crematorium 4. "If not for the living, so for dying in honor", says one of the thirteen witnesses who tell their story here. Harsh testimonies from the survivors; imprisonment in the camp, the resistance, and circumstances of their survival. Narration and presentation by, Ellen Burstyn, the academy awards winner American actress.