The Quiet Village

Narrated by Liev Schreiber, The Quiet Village tells the untold story of Kulmhof. Situated in the small occupied Polish village of Chelmno nad Nerem, the camp pioneered industrialized mass murder through gas vans and exhaust fumes. Between 1941 and 1945, at least 152,000 people were killed there, and only six survived.

Filmed across Poland and Germany, The Quiet Village features groundbreaking research and never-before-seen archival material — including the first verifiable photographs of a Nazi gas van, the very model used at Kulmhof. Recognized by the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the historic discovery was made possible through the work of Berlin's Tiergarten 4 Association, the film's research partners. This film also shows Henryk Ross’s photographs of the Lodz Ghetto, a collection he captured and buried underground to outlast the Nazi regime. Through these archives, interviews, and testimony, The Quiet Village confronts the horror of this defining chapter of the Holocaust — the story unfolding through the voices of survivors, perpetrators, second-generation descendants, and local witnesses.

The film reveals how Kulmhof marked a turning point in human history — the first fixed location where industrial killing was systematically carried out. Coming 2026.

A Film by Ashton Gleckman

A Blackbird Pictures Production, In Association with the Tiergarten 4 Association, and RadicalMedia

Executive Produced by Jon Kamen, Adam Benzine, Michael Berenbaum

Music Composed by Ashton Gleckman and Michael Frankenberger