I've tried researching it, but I only ever get that its an "unnamed camp in Poland."
Its definitely not Auschwitz, though - the camp in this film seemed fairly small, at least small enough to be manageable by one commandant, and with only one, very primitive, gas chamber (at least compared to the death factory of Aushcwitz), at least compared to Auschwitz. I don't suppose it could have been Sobibor or Treblinka?
I don't think the camp in the film was supposed to be any one of the real camps. More of a composition of them, if that makes any sense.
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I also just realized that she's been transported to a camp in 1941, in which case while the camps at this time were horrible, and while Jews were still being killed in mass numbers,the "Final Solution" didn't really kick into high gear until around 1942, coinciding with the invasion of the USSR. Then the "death factories" and "extermination camps" came into play, and only then did camps like Auschwitz become the killing machines on the scale that its known as now. This would explain why Hannah and her group weren't "gassed" until the end of the story, because gassings and crematories weren't in regular use during that time. This would also explain the level of agency that some of the prisoners have, and get away with showing, which just wouldn't have been tolerated later on, at the height of the "Final Solution."
shareAushweitz was the only camp that tattooed ID numbers ... yet this is clearly not A/B. I think it a generic camp.
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