One of the first films to be filmed on location in Birkenau. The opening scene of the train approaching Birkenau is exactly the view we got when we marched with "March of the Living 2011" on May 2, 2011.

Branko Lustig, the creator of the series, was one of the speakers this year, and, at 80 years old, he had his Bar Mitzvah in front of the block in Auschwitz where he was a prisoner. Survivors who have seen this scene say it was eerily close to how "selection" really worked at Birkenau. One flick of the thumb determined whether the person would be dead within the hour or live to see another day.

The scene following this one shows the gas chambers and crematorium - this is a MUST SEE series (available on Netflix).