Twenty-seven witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust recount their dreadful experiences, offering intimate glimpses of daily existence in the ghettos and the camps, of life before, during and after the disaster. Most of the witnesses are Jewish many of whom were inmates of concentration camps while others were resistance fighters or escaped by passing as non-Jews. Among the non-Jewish witnesses are a former Hitler Youth, an American prisoner of war, and a Jesuit priest.
"Witness" is truly unique in its non-Hollywood approach to these testimonies - the complex and often contradictory accounts of what occurred are a stark contrast to movie portrayals of the Nazi era that romanticise resistance and survival.
