Nordoststreifen - The special film in the plm

Documentary film followed by a discussion with the filmmakers

The film by Szczecin filmmakers Kinga Konieczny and Paweł Sroka is a document about the extermination of the city's Jewish community, which took place on a frosty February night in 1940 and is not remembered by Szczecin residents today. Hannah Arendt described this deportation as a "rehearsal" in her book "Eichmann in Jerusalem". A "rehearsal for extermination". At that time, over 1,100 people were deported from the administrative district of Szczecin. They disappeared overnight. Silently.

Among these deportees were Max and Rosa Nelke, citizens of Szczecin and grandparents of Peter, whose story is told in the film. Peter Nelke endeavours to honour the memory of his grandparents by laying stumbling blocks - memorial stones - in the pavement in front of the house where they lived and from where they were deported to be murdered. The camera accompanies him on his search for the traces of his grandparents.

Director: Kinga Konieczny, Paweł Sroka; Poland 2025, 56:26 minutes, FSK o. A., original with German subtitles

In cooperation with the Cultural Advisor for Pomerania and East Brandenburg, the Working Group Church and Judaism and the Society for Pomeranian History, Antiquity and Art.

Admission: € 6.00