The World Will Tremble (2025) is based on a true story.
Here are the key historical facts and where the film takes creative license:
What is true / supported by history
1. Chelmno Extermination Camp โ The film is set in the first Nazi death camp in Poland, Chelmno (or Kulmhof), where Jews and others were murdered, often by gas vans.
2. Solomon Wiener and Michaล (Michael) Podchlebnik โ These are real people. They were prisoners in Chelmno who escaped and gave testimonies about what was happening in the camp.
3. Their escape(s) and testimony โ Wiener and Podchlebnikโs testimony in 1942 was among the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust. They attempted to warn the outside world about Nazi atrocities.
4. Historical research โ The director, Lior Geller, spent about ten years researching this story, consulting with historians including Yad Vashem.