:16:17
But we soon found out
that the van had a very different purpose.
:16:23
Roschmann had converted it
into a gas chamber.
:16:26
The exhaust pipe
had been fed back into the van...
:16:30
...so that everyone inside
was suffocated by the fumes.
:16:35
The expression in Esther´s eyes
has stayed with me always.
:16:41
After her death, my soul died inside me.
:16:46
But my body and mind remained alive.
:16:49
I was determined to survive...
:16:51
...and one day tell the world
what Roschmann did to our people here.
:16:56
Peter?
:17:02
It´s after 8:00.
:17:06
-Aren´t you supposed to be at the cIub?
-I tried to caII a taxi, but I couIdn´t get one.
:17:10
A taxi? What do you need a taxi for?
Don´t I aIways take you?
:17:40
Between 1941 and the end of the war...
:17:43
...over 200,000 German Jews
were brought to Riga.
:17:48
400 came out alive.
:17:52
In late 1944, we began to hear
the crump of mortar fire.
:17:57
There were rumours that the Russians
had taken the suburbs of Riga...