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Holocaust denial began with the Nazis. Their proving ground was a top-secret death camp called Sobibor. In a tale of detection like no other, a 10-year investigation unearths a Nazi cover-up of a factory of death in a remote forest in Poland.

Synopsis

Holocaust denial began with the Nazis.

Their proving ground was a top-secret death camp called Sobibor.

Barbed wire. Bullets. Teeth. Keys. Wedding rings. Judaic stars. Metal name tags.

In a tale of detection like no other, a 10-year investigation unearths evidence of a Nazi cover-up of a factory of death in a remote forest in Poland. To hide the murder of 250,000 Jews, a daring revolt, and a mass escape by 300 prisoners, the Nazis meticulously destroyed the camp. Today, a forest conceals the crime scene.

Now, archeologists Yoram Haimi (Israel), Wojciech Mazurek (Poland), and Ivar Schute (Netherlands) have uncovered what the Nazis tried to erase from history. DEADLY DECEPTION at SOBIBOR takes viewers behind-the-scenes as the unprecedented investigation takes place. Sobibor survivor Philip Bialowitz adds corroborating eyewitness testimony.

Revealing the Nazi cover-up through ground-probing radar, secret telegrams, Luftwaffe aerials, and excavations, the film weaves together history and science to expose remains of barracks, mass graves, gas chambers, and 70,000 artifacts —including metal name tags of children. Sobibor is a defining moment in the outcome of violent bigotry.

The film is narrated by acclaimed actress Tovah Feldshuh.

About the Director

Documentary filmmaker and journalist Gary Hochman is the Managing Director of Changing Minds Productions in North Haven, Connecticut. For 40 years, Gary worked as a producer, director and writer of national and international productions at Nebraska Public Media, part of the University of Nebraska.

Gary has produced and directed documentaries in the United States, South America, Europe, and Antarctica for PBS, the NOVA science series, Discovery Channel, and museums. His films specialize in history, science, and the arts. In Poland, he established the Sobibor Documentation Project in cooperation with the Sobibor Excavations.

DEADLY DECEPTION AT SOBIBOR is Gary’s first feature-length documentary.