In 1967, Polish filmmaker Andrzej Brzozowski captured on film the only archaeological excavation ever conducted at Auschwitz-Birkenau, near crematoria II and III. 16,470 personal items, serving as silent testimonies to the victims, most of them Jewish, were unearthed fromthe soil. More than half a century later, filmmaker and historian Ania Szczepanska sets out to retrace the fate of these objects and to reflect on the fragile and tangible traces left by memory, history, and absence.

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