From Where They Stood

From Where They Stood, also known as À pas aveugles, is a 2021 Holocaust documentary by French documentarian Christophe Cognet that scrutinizes photographs taken clandestinely by prisoners at the Dachau, Auschwitz, Mittlelbau-Dora and Buchenwald Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

[3] Some of the pictures show women prisoners who had been subjected to medical experiments, and the photographs shown the injuries caused to their legs by Nazi "doctors".

[3] The film begins and ends with a depiction of a pond where cremated remains had been disposed, showing bone fragments that become evident many decades later after heavy rainfalls.

"[2] The New York Times said the "film can feel overly cerebral—a bit like being plunged into a seminar—and the text cards do a lot of explanatory heavy lifting.

But Cognet’s forensic approach does insist on memorializing these events in an important, physically specific way and, intentionally or not, queasily anticipates a world without any living eyewitnesses to these horrors.