Het Kwaad Buiten
subtitel Leven naast Kamp Vught zomer 1942 - najaar 1944
lenght 38 min.
year 2010
producer Zuidenwind Filmprodukties
director Joost Seelen
script Joost Seelen
broadcaster NCRV
The entire community in Vught has faced the camp, led by the SS. Some earned their living at the camp by building barracks or by transporting goods to the camp. Others created secret packages with food for the prisoners. Everyone watched helplessley when freight trains departed from Vught to the death camps.
More than 65 years after the war, most people tell their story for the first time. Some still have to process what they have seen and experienced. They still struggle with powerlessness and the choices they made. The man which put barbed wire on the inside of the wagons with his brother - "so they did not barn the walls during transport." He heard the screams of women and children as they were crammed in trains and deported. A woman tells she closed the curtains so she did not had to see the atrocities.
Through the interweave of past and present filmmaker Joost Seelen cites the choices of the war generation to the present.
The Evil Outside is a timeless documentary that holds up a mirror to us all.
Documentary
lenght 38 min.
year 2010
producer Zuidenwind Filmprodukties
director Joost Seelen
script Joost Seelen
broadcaster NCRV
description
The people of Vught unwillingly became involved in the Vught concentration camp during the war. This has left many deep scars. In The Evil Outside nine people tell, for the first time in 65 years, about their personal experiences with the camp. The shocking stories are interspersed with images from contemporary Vught, the horrors of the past suddenly feel very close.The entire community in Vught has faced the camp, led by the SS. Some earned their living at the camp by building barracks or by transporting goods to the camp. Others created secret packages with food for the prisoners. Everyone watched helplessley when freight trains departed from Vught to the death camps.
More than 65 years after the war, most people tell their story for the first time. Some still have to process what they have seen and experienced. They still struggle with powerlessness and the choices they made. The man which put barbed wire on the inside of the wagons with his brother - "so they did not barn the walls during transport." He heard the screams of women and children as they were crammed in trains and deported. A woman tells she closed the curtains so she did not had to see the atrocities.
Through the interweave of past and present filmmaker Joost Seelen cites the choices of the war generation to the present.
The Evil Outside is a timeless documentary that holds up a mirror to us all.
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