Documentary film that makes use of photographs, documents and excerpts from diaries. The film describes the stuggle for life of Jews in the Kovno ghetto within a murderous reality. Among a series of aktionen from "The big aktion" that took place on 28 October, 1941 until the "children's aktion" and liquidation of the ghetto in 1944.
Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2001. Torchlighter Zinaide Mudrik. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.
Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2006 "The Human Spirit in the Shadow of Death". Torchlighter Uri Chanoch. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.