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Wanda Jakubowska, a Polish filmmaker, Communist, and concentration camp survivor, returned to Auschwitz in 1948 to fashion one of the most powerful and historically accurate feature films about the experiences of women in the death camp. THE LAST STOP celebrates the resilience of female solidarity and was one of the few films made in the actual place where the events happened, by the survivors themselves. Scripted by Jakubowska and Gerda Schneider in 1945, the story is based on observations of events during their internment. Unlike recent films about the Holocaust, this one shows both brave opposition and cowardly acquiescence to the Nazis, and both class differences and solidarity between the Jewish, Polish, Russian and French prisoners. As in many Polish post-war films, hope lies in the Communist resistance; but unlike films by male directors, the film resolutely focuses on the female experience of war. Includes images one will never forget.
