The World Will Tremble (2025) on Netflix
Solomon Wiener and Michael Podchlebnik work in the Chełmno Sonderkommando, collecting the belongings of Jews killed in gas vans. The two plot an escape to tell the world.
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Plot summary
Chełmno, the first Nazi extermination camp in occupied Poland, is where Solomon Wiener, a Polish Jew from Izbica, and Michael Podchlebnik, from Kolo, are held as prisoners in the Sonderkommando. The men dig a mass grave in the forest before being marched to the camp, where Kommandant Sturmbannführer Herbert Lange promises the newcomers work in Leipzig. The arrivals are stripped and put into a gas van, and the prisoners collect the clothes and belongings they leave behind. The truck returns to the grave, and the bodies are dumped. Solomon, Michael and the other prisoners begin planning how to get out of Chełmno and tell the world what is happening there.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The World Will Tremble (2025)
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- Solomon's testimony was the first eyewitness account of the Nazi mass murder of Jews; the Jewish Underground smuggled the message to BBC Radio in London, where it was broadcast on June 26, 1942 as the first news report on the Holocaust.
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Solomon Wiener was captured in April 1942 and gassed at Belzec, but not before sending out one last message about the gassings there.- Writer-director Lior Geller spent ten years researching the Chełmno extermination camp, helped by historian Dr. Na'ama Shik of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem memorial center.
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Michael Podchlebnik hid on a Polish farm until the end of the war, then emigrated to Israel, remarried and had two sons; in 1962 he was a witness at the trials of Chełmno's guards in West Germany.
