Keep walking to save your life... In early 1945, wherever the front line approached the concentration camps, prisoners were driven westward. Prisoners from the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück camps had to march up to 250 kilometers. At the beginning of May, the survivors of this ordeal were liberated by the Red Army and the US Army in Raben Steinfeld near Schwerin, in Ludwigslust, in Plau am See, and even further north.

More than seven decades later, director Martin Gressmann follows the main routes of the death marches through Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where 200 memorial plaques now stand, and lets the last surviving witnesses, now elderly, have their say in his film. Some of them are speaking about their experiences for the first time. They remember horrors that will never fade. How far back must we look to understand how strongly the past is linked to the present?

Following the film, there will be a discussion with Martin Gressmann and Janine Fubel, PhD in history, who has researched the end of the war in the Berlin-Brandenburg region, focusing in particular on the evacuation process in Sachsenhausen in 1945.

Presented by the Henri-Perrin-Foundation, which supports individuals who are active in the politics of memory and in the context of political and historical education.