Zapomenuté transporty do Lotyšska剧情介绍

On September 5, 1942, a transport of a thousand Czech Jews arrives at the tiny Estonian village of Raasiku. Several dozen young women are immediately separated out by Nazi officers and, as their relatives board blue buses, told to load the luggage onto trucks. But when they reach the Jägala camp, they are in for a surprise - the commandant announces that their families have been sent ahead to a better-equipped, heated camp. The bewildered girls soon form a tight-knit group based on mutual support and bonds stronger than the closest friendships. They are taken to the Central prison in the Estonian capital of Tallinn and soon their living conditions start to deteriorate. Yet they refuse to admit this to themselves. They act in unison, almost like a single organism, and their youthful optimism, humor and naivety enable them to overcome unspeakable hardship. Put to forced labor in the port, they meet ordinary Estonians, Russians and Germans. Friendships and romances develop beyond the bounds of ideology and racial hatred. Swedish sailors even offer to smuggle some of the women out. Yet escape is unthinkable: they have been warned that their parents will be punished if they try to run away. Among many other powerful episodes, the documentary reconstructs the astonishing unknown story of a concentration camp Romeo and Juliet. A cruel commandant is transformed by love for his beautiful prisoner, assists her and her friends, and even tries to leave the SS. The lovers themselves inevitably meet a tragic end. On their long journey through Estonia, Poland and then Germany, the women are constantly surrounded by death and danger, yet - almost miraculously – they manage to stay together and alive. Enclosed in their own protective bubble, they are almost oblivious to the Holocaust raging round them, firmly believing they will be reunited with their relatives. It is only after the war on September 5, 1945, while they are convalescing in Sweden, that a priest reveals the mystery behind the disappearance of their families . . . Forgotten Transports To Estonia pays a moving tribute to the strength, and ultimately the survival, of an extraordinary group of women in a man’s war.