REMEMBER BELSEN + Q&A with director FRANK SHIELDS - Randwick Ritz Cinemas 25 June

Editor's Note: Frank Shields has been making films since the early 1970s. His documentary on Breaker Morant (1974) won numerous awards and his 1986 film The Surfer  was selected as an official entry in the Cannes Film Festival.

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To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, Frank Shields invites you join him on 25th June for a powerful evening at Ritz Cinemas screening the thought-provoking documentary, REMEMBER BELSEN. The film includes footage locked away for 40 years, deemed too shocking for public release by British and American authorities. 

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REMEMBER BELSEN (2025, 105 minutes) is an eyewitness documentary, featuring interviews with five Jewish survivors, a cameraman who recorded the camp’s liberation, and Australian war artist Alan Moore, the first to record the horrors of the BERGEN-BELSEN camp.

British liberators entering the camp on April 15, 1945 found thousands of unburied corpses. Too ill to recover, 13,000 inmates died after liberation, with the official end of the war in Europe only weeks away. Reeling from the first images of Nazi concentrations camps, the world was shocked beyond belief by the horrors of Bergen-Belsen.

Around 50,000 persons died there, including diarist Anne Frank and her sister Margot. Most of the victims were Jews. The unimaginable intentional horror and the extraordinary British rescue operation were international headlines and Bergen-Belsen became a byword for evil.

Frank Shield’s film reflects on the experiences of camp inmates to convey the full horror of the Holocaust. In a moving counterpoint, the film records a reunion between two Jewish survivors, Olga Horak and Helen Schon and war artist, Alan Moore.