EVERY FACE HAS A NAME Sweden, 2015, 73 minutes, Colour/black and white.

Directed by Magnus Gretten.

From the website of: Menemsha Films:

What is it like to be captured during war and mistaken for being a spy? How is it to live six years in hiding dressed like a girl, when you are a young boy? What happens when you have experienced such gruesome things, that you are trying to keep your own memory away? In Every Face Has a Name Elsie, Bernard, Nerit and other survivors from 2nd World War tell their stories as they discover themselves in an archive reel shot on April 28, 1945. The day they were finally being liberated from the German camps. In the archive film they are anonymous faces in large crowds of refugees. But they all have a name. And they all have a story to tell. Stories about escape, survival and starting life again. Just like the many stories we hear about refugees in Europe today.

In the fascinating Swedish documentary “Every Face Has a Name,” helmer Magnus Gertten tracks down and interviews survivors from German concentration camps seen in a 35mm archival film reel showing their arrival at the harbor of Malmo, Sweden, on April 28, 1945. The group includes Jews from all over Europe, Norwegian prisoners of war, Polish mothers and children, members of the French resistance and British spies — and perhaps unique among them, a young Italian-American who was accused of being a spy while visiting her grandparents and deported to Auschwitz. Fests, Jewish-interest programmers and broadcasters will appreciate their valuable testimony.  Alissa Simon, Variety.

The only comment on the IMDb, dating from 2018, is an angry statement condemning the filmmakers interest in contemporary refugees, inserting footage from crisis in the 2000s.

Everybody lie! Political propaganda equating the drama of WWII to the contemporary immigrants' problem. The decline of objectivity.