Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, the film contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footag.

Based on the book Tragedie de la deportation by Olga Wormeser and Henri Michel. Container title: Night and fog. At head of container title: Alain Renais'. Originally released as a motion picture in 1955. Special features include: Excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from Les Etoiles du cinéma (1994); optional isolated music track; new essay about the film by Phillip Lopate; essay about composer Hanns Eisler by Russell Lack; crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie.