You’ve Heard of Auschwitz — But Not This Camp

Skarżysko-Kamienna was not an extermination camp, yet it became one of the deadliest places in occupied Europe. This documentary examines the Nazi forced-labor camp operated by the German arms company HASAG, where thousands of Jewish prisoners were worked to death producing ammunition for the Reich. Through historical evidence and survivor testimony, the film reveals how starvation, toxic chemicals, exhaustion, and brutality were used as tools of extermination without gas chambers. Set beside an ordinary Polish town, the camp functioned in plain sight, turning industrial routine into a mechanism of genocide. History in the Trenches explores how Skarżysko-Kamienna exposes a lesser-known but essential truth about the Holocaust: that mass murder also occurred through labor, time, and systematic neglect.