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- Valerie's Orchard is a compelling new film about an 86 year old Hungarian lady living in Jerusalem, who amazingly survived the Holocaust, in particular, Auschwitz Birkenau and the infamous "Death March". Filmed on location in Israel, Eastern Europe and England, this amazing story features Valerie's personal experiences; which are depicted through a unique perspective - Using original fine art pencil drawings of olive trees.
- More than 250,000 men, women and children were held at Buchenwald from its opening in 1937 until its closure eight years later. About 56,000 people, including Jews, Roma and Soviet prisoners, died within its walls.
- More than 70 years ago, the Kiel gynecologist Carl Clauberg tried to sterilize hundreds of girls and women in the German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on behalf of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler. Many died as a result of the inhuman experiments. The last survivors tell of the terrible experiences they had in the camp.
- 8 Jews. 6 Continents. 1 Movement: Through the process of aliyah, we understand and explore global Jewish culture in the 21st century and Israel's place in the formation of Jewish identity.
- Documentary about how the Danish Jews received special treatment in "Theresienstadt" during World War II as part of gigantic set-piece to be included in the Nazi propaganda programme.
- Im April 1944 entkamen zwei Gefangene wie durch ein Wunder dem deutschen Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau und berichteten der Welt erstmals aus erster Hand die schreckliche Wahrheit. Der Dokumentarfilm folgt den abenteuerlichen Wegen, die beschritten werden mussten, um diese Informationen an die Alliierten weiterzuleiten. Rudolf Vrba und Alfred Wetzler waren Lagerinsassen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau. Beide hatten durch ihre Funktionen detailliertes Wissen über die Mechanismen der Massenvernichtung: Wetzler musste als Lagerregistrar alle Besitztümer der Neuankömmlinge wie Kleidung oder Schmuck registrieren. Aus diesem Grund wusste er, wie viele Menschen täglich im Lager ankamen. Seine Deutschkenntnisse erlaubten ihm außerdem, Gesprächen der Wachmänner zu folgen. Wetzler und Vrba gelang die Flucht. Was sie dem slowakischen Judenrat aus dem deutschen Vernichtungslager berichteten, floss in einen detaillierten Report, der das Ausmaß der von den Nazis betriebenen "Endlösung" verdeutlichte, später bekannt geworden als die "Auschwitz-Protokolle". Ihr Bericht wurde dem von US-Präsident Roosevelt gegründeten War Refugee Board übermittelt: Zwischen den Alliierten entbrannte daraufhin eine heftige Debatte, wie sie den Massenmord in Auschwitz verhindern könnten. Aus dem Bericht war bekannt, dass sich die Nazis auf die Ermordung von 800.000 ungarischen Juden vorbereiteten. Es musste also gehandelt werden. Eine Option war, die neu gebaute Bahnlinie Kosice-Presov in Richtung Auschwitz zu bombardieren - oder das Lager selbst. Briten und Amerikaner hielten eine Bombardierung des Lagers für falsch. Alle verfügbaren Kräfte wurden für die Landung in der Normandie mobilisiert - dies sei der beste Weg, die Nazis zu schlagen und so die europäischen Juden zu retten. Für manche war das Versäumnis, Auschwitz zu bombardieren, moralische Feigheit. Andere hielten eine Bombardierung unter möglicher Inkaufnahme Tausender unschuldiger Toter für inakzeptabel.
- Documentary portraying the dramatic events which took place during the rescue of the Danish Jews in World War II.
- This unique cinematic piece about language, memory and identity follows Ladino speakers-their culture, their memories and their hopes for the future of their mother tongue. In Search of Ladino is a forgotten landmark of Holocaust cinematography, one of the first films to show Ladino speaking Holocaust survivors in Israel and to document their testimonies and songs. The film was meant to be part of a trilogy about languages - Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino - but David Perlov never managed to make the other two. Perlov avoids being didactic. Focusing his gaze on the faces of his subjects and listening carefully to their stories and songs, he creates a film that brings the richness and diversity of Ladino culture back to life. The film screened is a restoration of the original.
- In occupied Poland, the Nazis established three extermination camps, one in Sobibor. The inmates had organized an uprising that allowed some to survive and report the horrific events.
- Investigating the history and modern face of Holocaust denial.
- An investigation of the evidence for Hitler's Final Solution, together with a dramatic reconstruction of key courtroom exchanges in the libel case lost by the historian David Irving, who was accused of being anti-Semitic and a Holocaust denier.
- The warrant for the arrest of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death" Dr. Josef Mengele was a catalog of horror. A look back of the crimes and life of the SS Doctor who sent 400,000 people to the gas chambers in the pursuit of racial purification.
- From PBS - The Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on October 14, 1943 the inmates fought back, in the biggest and most successful prison outbreak of the Second World War. Of the 600 inmates present on the day of the escape, 300 escaped. Around 50 survived the war and of that 50, only a handful are still alive. This is their last chance to reveal the true story of their escape.
- 20041h 37mUnrated7.8 (167)67MetascoreMenachem Daum, the son of holocaust survivors, and a New York Orthodox Jew worries that both of his sons, full time yeshiva students who live with their families in Israel, are becoming seduced to intolerance by their religious studies. "All religions today are in danger of being hijacked by extremists." To open their perspectives just a little he sets off with his wife, Rifka, and both sons, Tzvi Dovid and Akiva, to visit the Polish towns where his parents grew up and to try to find the Catholic farmers who hid his father-in-law from the Germans. Enduring the bemused tolerance of his sons, Menachem persists until they find Honorata Matuszezyk Mucha who as a young woman brought food nightly to Rifka's father and his two brothers for 28 months until the end of World War II. The Daum sons perspectives widen a bit to allow for good Gentiles, but they also encounter some resentment from the Poles who heard no word from the three brothers after they left their hiding place, not even a postcard with a thank you. A lot of issues are surfaced but left unresolved in this well crafted documentary.
- On 26 November 1942, 529 Jewish people were sent by ship from Oslo. Now, 80 years later, some of the people who grew up during the war tells us about what really happened to the Jews in the streets.
- It was arguably the deadliest conference in human history. The topic: plans to murder 11 million Jews in Europe. The participants were not psychopaths, but educated men from the SS, police, administration and ministries. The invitation to the meeting at Wannsee came from Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office. The Wehrmacht's campaigns of conquest in Eastern Europe marked the beginning of the systematic murder of Jews in Poland and the Soviet Union. In mid-September 1941, Hitler made the decision to deport all Jews from Germany to the East. Although there had been transports before, Hitler's order represented a further escalation in the murderous decision-making process. Persecution and discrimination had been part of everyday life since 1933. But as a result, the living conditions for the Jews in the Third Reich became even more difficult, among them the Berlin Jew Margot Friedländer, born in 1921, and the Chotzen family.
- A documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS-leader Heinrich Himmler.
- Against his country's orders, a Japanese diplomat issues visas to refugees, saving over 6,000 Jewish lives at the outbreak of World War II.
- The story of the hijacking of Air France Flight AF139 on 27 June 1976 from Athens and the subsequent mission to rescue the hostages from the airport terminal at Entebbe in Uganda. The movie contains interviews with former hostages, including Captain Bacos who (together with his crew) refused to abandon his passengers as well those who planned the rescue mission and those executed it.
- A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.
- "Inheritance" is the story of Monika Hertwig and her journey to accept the truth about her father, Nazi commander Amon Goeth, who was portrayed by actor Ralph Fiennes in "Schindler's List." As part of Monika's search for information, she reaches out to Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, a woman Monika's father enslaved during the war. Over 60 years after Monika's father was executed for his war crimes, in a historic and painful moment, these two women meet, bringing closure, yet raising new questions.
- A moral college ethics professor plans to kill his neighbor, a Nazi death camp commander.
- The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
- Simon discovers friendly, generous old neighbor Charlotte Kerjesz has a concentration camp tattoo. Eric forbids Simon to ask her to help for a history assignment but realizes his son is right after hearing classmate Larry's father spreads holocaust denial. The Camdens are excited to meet Joanne, Matt's first girl since Heather dumped him. Considering her 'too perfect', jealous Lucy and Mary decoded flippantly to hate and ignore her. Joanne overhears them and dumps Matt over his lousy siblings, which stands even after apologies.
- Using breathtaking drama reconstruction and shocking archive, this film tells the story of Rudolf Vrba. In 1944 he escaped from Auschwitz, trekked across occupied Poland evading recapture and stunned the world with the horrific truth. His heroic efforts saved the lives of 600,000 Hungarian Jews. Filmed on location in Hungary.
- In June 1941, the German army invades the USSR. Following behind are the Einsatzgruppen, 3000 men grouped into four "intervention groups" each given a designated geographical region, sent to exterminate Jews and enemies of the Reich.
- Two young filmmakers gain access to some of the most wanted Nazi war criminals still alive to discover how their wartime actions have shaped their lives forever.
- Nazi Hunters examines the capture of Adolf Eichmann considered by many to be one of the main architects of the Holocaust. Eichmann was captured outside of his home near Buenos Aires in Argentina by Mossad agents. He was taken to Israel where he was tried for war crimes and later executed.
- AKA Good or Evil. Profiling Mohammad Amin Al-Husayni, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who enticed Bosnian Muslims to serve in the Waffen-SS.
- Details of collaborators in Ukraine and Lithuania are examined.
- AKA The Devil's Due. Greeks who helped the Nazis.
- The 1935 Nuremburg Laws, the final solution, and soldiers who are Jewish that were allowed to fight for Germany are discussed.
- Before the WWII, the Nazis had taken power in Germany, and Jews started being harassed. Liv, Gerd and Siegmund are just some of the people who lived their safe life in peaceful Norway, until the war came there too.
- During the spring and autumn of 1942, all Jews got a J stamped in their passports. It had become dangerous to be Jewish in Norway, and rumors were spread around. Who and what could people trust? Now, 70 years later, some of the people who lived through the war will tell you about that.
- On 25 November 1942, an order came to all police offices in Norway: Women and children were to be arrested, and the country had to be emptied of Jews within a day.
- The cargo ship Donau had left Oslo with 529 Norwegian Jews on board. The few who were left had the urge to flee, but the problem was how.
- At Bredtvet prison, Jewish people of all ages were still imprisoned, without any hope to be saved until Sweden began offering help.
- In 1945, the war ended, and Norway was in euphoria of victory. Jewish refugees could finally return home, unaware of what they really came home to.
- The actress grew up in London but knows her father's family originated in Poland and has long suspected that they suffered during the Holocaust. She uncovers a story of separated family members trying to keep one step ahead of the Nazis.
- In this moving episode TV's Robert "Judge" Rinder follows the story of his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, hearing first hand testimony of the horror of Nazi forced labour camps as well as of the hope offered by a new life in Lake Windermere. Investigating the dark mystery surrounding his great-grandfather leads Robert to a small town in Latvia, where he uncovers a story of mental illness and trauma which will ultimately, he hopes, lay some ghosts to rest.