Sechs Millionen. Und Einer

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gab es für die jüdischen Überlebenden der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager keinen Ort, an den sie gehen konnten. Sie wurden She‘erit Hapletah, „die letzten Überlebenden“, genannt. Die UN brachten sie in sogenannten Displaced Persons Camps unter. Einer von ihnen war Samuel Danziger, Überlebender von Auschwitz. Gerade als er seine Familie im Stuttgarter DP-Lager in der Reinsburgstraße wiedergefunden hatte, wurde er bei einer Razzia wegen Schwarzmarktgeschäften erschossen. Der Name des Täters blieb 80 Jahre lang unter Verschluss. On March 29, 1946, Auschwitz survivor Samuel Danziger was shot dead in Stuttgart during a raid targeting black market activities. The case drew international attention. The New York Times quoted a survivor who claimed she could identify the shooter as a member of the Stuttgart police force—someone she recognized as a former concentration camp guard. Although the American military government launched an investigation, it was soon quietly dropped. The first Jew to be killed by Germans after the Holocaust was meant to be forgotten. More than 75 years later, Samuel Danziger’s grandson living in Canada, begins a journey to uncover the truth behind the killing. He is joined by a young historian who grew up in the very place where his grandfather was shot. The film also leads to another powerful revelation. Samuel Danziger’s son, who witnessed his father being shot in the head during the raid in Stuttgart, is known around the world. He was the little boy captured in the iconic footage of children being liberated from Auschwitz—images that have become etched into our collective memory.