Movies: Holocaust shoah

An American family visits a concentration camp in Germany. At the museum, the father makes the acquaintance of an older man who questions his prejudices....

In an article on the Vatican and the holocaust at Jewish Virtual Library it says: “Pope Pius XII’s (1876-1958) actions during the Holocaust remain controversial. For much of the war, he maintained a public front of indifference and remained silent wh...

The story of the Holocaust survivors in Poland (1946-1949). Based on the films of Nathan Gross and Shaul Goskind: Akhar alpaim shana....

Shortly before Christmas 1744, Vienna, the center of power in the Habsburg Empire, is the scene of a disastrous drama with repercussions for the whole of Europe. Against the spirit of enlightenment and tolerance, the very young Maria Theresa orders t...

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The discovery of a lockbox buried in the basement of a former Jewish midwestern merchant's store would unlock a half century old secret. The papers inside would reveal a family's story of rescue, sacrifice and courage. In the late 1930's, David and h...

Chicken Soup With Knives is a personal documentary that chronicles filmmaker Leora Eisenstein’s journey (with her sister and other companions) to Lviv, her family’s hometown before World War II. There, she embarks on a search for her roots as well as...

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Photographer and filmmaker Luigi Toscano spends a year meeting with hundreds of Holocaust survivors around the world to share their stories....

In January of 1942, two first transports with hundreds of Czech Jews leave Theresienstadt for the east. After a journey lasting several days, the trains reach the Latvian capital of Riga....

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A former inmate of the Auschwitz concentration camp, accused of being a kapo, is serving a life sentence. From the monologue to the camera, we learn the story of an average man destroyed in terrible times....

During the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944, thousands of American GIs were captured by German forces. Berga: Soldiers of Another War, the final work in the distinguished career of four-time Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Charle...

Living memories is a community documentary project: the result of a unique collaboration between a group of older women from Melbourne's Jewish community and twelve Media students from RMIT University. Over a six-month period in 2008 nine women told ...

For four years (1977-1981) Esaias Baitel documented a violent Parisian neo-Nazi gang. Having gained their trust, he was able to get close to them. Living among the gang members, he witnessed horrific events, and while hiding his real identity, he pho...

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Documentary Tells Story of Maud Dahme, One of Thousands of Jewish Children in the Netherlands Who Were Hidden and Saved From Nazi Death Camps by Christians....

This powerful short documentary traces the harrowing liberation of Nazi concentration camps across Europe from 1944 to 1945, including Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and Auschwitz. Through carefully curated archival footage and historical narration, Bearing ...