The liberation of Auschwitz

Alexander Vorontsov is the only surviving cameraman of a Red Army team filming at Auschwitz at the time of the liberation of that infamous death camp in January/ February 1945. He explains that the team did not have any sound equipment of lights in order to shoot interviews with at least some of the inmates of the camp at the time of the liberation. The majority of the prisoners had been forced by the Germans to leave the camp when the Red Army approached Auschwitz, and had perished on their 'death marches'. But almost 6,000 prisoners were still left at Auschwitz, and could be liberated. Vorontsov was able to record the results of the Soviet investigating committee and the evacuation and closing of Auschwitz-Birkenau.