Die Vergessenen Kinder von Köln plot
When on Monday 20 July 1942, very punctually at three o'clock, the 'Reichchsbahn' train DA 219 left the Cologne-Deutz train station with 1164 Jewish people, all from Cologne, there were 335 children among them, mainly from Jewish schools and homes. in the city. They were between four months and 19 years old. The destination Minsk in Belarus was a big secret. For many of them it was the first journey of their early life and they all live with the inspired hope of starting a new life in the East. Immediately after arrival in the morning of Friday July 24, 1942, at seven o'clock in the morning, the 335 Jewish children and all adults are taken to a forest adjacent to the death camp 'Maly Trostenets'. After they have undressed, they are all taken to the waiting pits and shot. Since the perpetrators did not want to leave any trace, the bodies were burned in the pits. None of the Cologne Jews ever returned. Unique footage documents this in this very oppressive documentary about a hitherto little known terrorist act by the SS...