Another transport arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Former prisoner no. 181970, a member of the Sonderkommando, recounts years later how the gassing and burning of corpses took place. The film ends with the song "El Malei Rachamin" for the souls of the dead.

Weaves together the personal recollections of four Polish survivors of the Holocaust with original footage from the present day. The film focuses specifically on the relations between Jews and Poles in Nazi occupied Poland.