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The involvement of Czech director Vojtech Jasny with the Holocaust goes far beyond directing Hell on Earth. After his father was deported and assassinated in Auschwitz, Jasny became an active member of the Czech resistance and also acted as a spy for the allies throughout the Second World War. Such involvement led him also to focus on life and death in Theresienstadt, the “model” concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where the Nazis would take diplomats to show how the Jewish people were being “well treated”. “I chose this title because it is closest to what occurred. This was a period in which the demons in the human mind darkened the world. The film is not only a documentary - it is a horror film”, says the director. Professor Yehuda Bauer, historian, acted in an advisory capacity in the making of this documentary.