Sentences with phrase «prisoners in the gas chambers»

Despite its beauty, this plant is dangerous to have around your pets or children due to the serious side effects from the toxins, one of which was used by Hitler as a gas to execute prisoners in the gas chambers.

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When in October and November 1944 the first evacuees from Auschwitz arrived in Bergen - Belsen (a camp where prisoners died only from starvation, exhaustion, disease and maltreatment) and told us about the gas chambers, we did not believe them.

Nemes confronts the sheer horror of that endeavor head - on: Whereas «Schindler's List» faced plenty of criticism for its sugarcoated scene in which prisoners are shepherded into a gas chamber only to be met with a shower, «Son of Saul» offers no such respite.

Shot from the perspective of an Auschwitz prisoner, Saul (fellow Hungarian newcomer Géza Röhrig), condemned to work in the gas chambers in the twilight of World War II, Nemes» masterpiece avoids trivializing or sentimentalizing the Holocaust by centering the genocide's horrors in the face and body of one individual.

The tremendous Geza Rohrig plays an Auschwitz Sonderkommando, a Jewish prisoner forced into aiding the Nazis in the concentration camps, who discovers what he believes is the body of his estranged child in the gas chambers and sets out to give him a proper burial.

It portrays a night and day in the hell of Auschwitz in the company of a member of the Jewish Sonnerkommando (a prisoner unit ferrying bodies from the gas chambers).