Harsh memory (1963)

A film about the fates of Soviet people, former prisoners of the fascist concentration camps: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald and others.

Former prisoners: tractor driver I. Nazarov, pilot N. Pysin, doctor F. V. Vrublevsky, writer S. P. Zlobin, workers A. A. Sarapkin, L. Pyatykh, pilot A. V. Kuznetsov after the war at his workplace.

Sachsenhausen concentration camp. L. Pyatykh, A. A. Sarapkin, German communists Z. Haan, K. Schwotzer in the camp museum.

Meeting of former prisoner pilot A. V. Kuznetsov with the Poles who helped him during the war: J. Dombrowski, L. and T. Spruha, K. Griklyaks, Logi-Sowinski, Moczar in the cities of Lodz and Warsaw.

Newsreel: destroyed and restored Warsaw.

Shells are exploding.

A village is burning.

Corpses of children.

German soldiers are driving away civilians.

Barbed fences of concentration camps, prisoners are passing by.

SS men with dogs.

Experimental blocks.

Jars of gas, poison, syringes. A. V. Kuznetsov meets a pilot, former prisoner of Sachsenhausen M. Devyatayev, who organized an escape from the camp on a German plane. M. Devyatayev after the war - the captain of the "Meteor" is sailing along the Volga River.

Portraits of the perished prisoners of concentration camps: Moabit, Mauthausen and others.

Cemetery of the perished prisoners.

West Berlin.

Soldiers are marching.

Memorial in Buchenwald.

Former prisoners at the site of E. Telman's death.

Manifetation of former prisoners of concentration camps.