Unknown Children

Based on testimonies, authentic archival documents and family photos, this documentary tells the story of 52 children of Westerbork transit Camp orphanage. The children, whose identity was unknown, were transported on September 13th, 1944, to Bergen-Belsen and registered in the camp records as 'Gruppe Unbekannte Kinder' (Unknown Children). All but one, they survived and in the summer of 1945 returned to the Netherlands. Since they were only toddlers during that time, they were unable to reconstruct what they had been through. Eight Unknown Children are still looking for information; they describe here their fragmented recollections of their lives during late WW2 and explore how it influenced them enduringly. Winner of the 'intermedia-globe Finalist Diploma' at the World Media Festival, Hamburg 2004.