Through eyewitness testimony, paintings, photographs and archival films the film tells about the Theresienstadt Ghetto, "The Model Ghetto", which was established in the Czech fortressed city Terezin, around 60 kilometers north of Prague, and served during the years 1941-1945 as a transit camp for Jews, mostly Czechs, Germans, Austrians and Dutch, before their transport to the death camps in the east.
Documentary film that brings the testimony of Oswald Rufeisen (Brother Daniel) and Shmuel Czesler about the escape to the nearby forest in an action that was made possible thanks to special conditions that existed in the ghetto. The film makes use of archival photographs and films and texts in Hebrew and English.
Documentary film that tells about Theresienstadt through photographs, excerpts from Nazi propaganda film (1944) paintings and a visit to the site today.