Šķēde – Murder on the Beach is a visually compelling, historically significant, testimonial driven documentary film, which recounts the fate of the doomed Jewish community of Liepãja, Latvia, during World War II as depicted in a series of 12 photographs taken by the executioners present at the scene of the mass murder on the beaches of Šķēde December 15, 16, and 17, 1941. Told from an integrated perspective, this film offers a novel point of view as we come to understand the victims and the perpetrators of the crimes, as well as the assessment of those who witnessed and survived it.
