The history of the passer: Cioma Schönhaus in Berlin 1943

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Erleben Sie in "Terra X: Ein Tag in Berlin 1943" die bewegende Geschichte des jüdischen Passfälschers Cioma Schönhaus, der in einer gefährlichen Zeit in Berlin um sein Überleben kämpft. Der Film zeigt seinen mutigen Einsatz für sich und andere verfolgte Juden. Sehen Sie die packende Doku am Sonntag, 27. Oktober 2024, um 19:30 Uhr im ZDF oder bereits ab dem 16. Oktober in der ZDFmediathek.
Experience the moving history of the Jewish passer Cioma Schönhaus in "Terra X: A day in Berlin 1943", who fights for his survival in a dangerous time in Berlin. The film shows its brave commitment to itself and other persecuted Jews. See the gripping documentary on Sunday, October 27, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. on ZDF or from October 16 in the ZDF media library. (Symbolbild/MB)

Berlin 1943: A dangerous game with death! A daring Jew who risks everything to escape the hell of the Nazi regime! This is how the exciting story of Cioma Schönhaus begins, a brave man who fought against the injustice with cunning and gun!

In this gripping film, which is part of the popular terra x series, we learn how Cioma Schönhaus, like Cioma Schönhaus, bravely defies the horror in the capital. The Dokufilm by Arne Peisker, Elin Carlsson and Sigrun Laste impressively shows how the 20-year-old lives in a Berlin that Hitler's insane vision of a “Jewish Reinen” city has fallen.

The risk of hiding play

The year 1943 marks a terrible turning point - over 50,000 Jewish citizens from Berlin have already been brought to the east. Anyone who is still there lives in constant fear of being discovered before the Gestapo. So also Cioma, who is the last survivor of his family in the city up to this point. His parents and grandparents have already come to the catches of the Nazi terror. But that's not the time for despair - Cioma has plans!

with a wrong name and a designed curriculum vitae, he turns into an "Aryan German". While he is adapted to his surroundings on the outside, the unbroken will struggles to live a normal life. Does the Gestapo catch him? Is denunciation at the door? He has to be constantly on the hat!

The master of deception

Cioma becomes a passer and ties in a resistance network that saves hundreds of human life. With skill and personal courage, he enables other Jews to get an apparently legal identity in these dark times. Like an artist, he creates new identities while the death of the Nazi monitoring remains omnipresent.

But happiness is often just a short stay. When he is discovered, Cioma makes a daring attempt to escape across Germany to get to the supposedly safe Switzerland. With his son Sascha, he later shares the moving story of his life as a "submarine"-a submerged Jew who hits death!

Experience the gripping narrative of courage and resistance battle in "A day in Berlin 1943". On Sunday, October 27, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. on ZDF - a must for all history friends! Already available in the ZDF media library from October 16, 2024!