I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance. Her father was a surveyor at a local mine. They were held by the Gestapo for two weeks before being transferred to Dachau concentration camp. One day they found a mouse in the soup pot and the prisoners immediately went for it.
Eventually, her father was released. Just skin and bones. He had entered the camp weighing 89 kg lbs , and when he came back he weighed only 32 kg 70 lbs. By , the Nazis had begun construction of the Auschwitz complex. The building of the concentration camp complex involved the massive displacement of the local Polish population. You were allowed a few pounds of things to carry on your back and that was it. The rest had to be left behind.
So we took what we could. Every one of them were risking their lives. If caught, they knew they would be imprisoned and sent to the camps, where death was almost certain. Under the guise of working in the mine, they smuggled in food, medicine and warm winter clothes and smuggled out messages.
She worked mainly at night, hiding supplies inside the camps where prisoners could find them. The scenes in The Zone of Interest , showing her hiding apples in the mud, come from her first-person accounts. She witnessed horrific scenes that marked her for life. She graduated from a technical institute but could not continue her studies because the communist authorities did not approve of her activities in World War II.
Resistance to authority was not in favor. She told him the stories of riding her bicycle to the camp to smuggle in apples, how she found the mysterious musical score, composed by an Auschwitz prisoner named Joseph Wulf, who survived the war. In the film, we see the young girl playing the music on her piano at home. She is the force for good.
