From The Department of Jewish Education Library

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We have prepared a list of video materials to enhance the teaching of the Holocaust in formal and informal teaching settings. These videos are available from the DJE Library at the Jewish Community Center.

Prior consultation and previewing will ensure a successful teaching and learning experience. You may contact the DJE Library Director, Elizabeth Edelglass (ext. #330).

When Steven Spielberg accepted his Oscar at the Academy Awards for “Schindler’s List”, he implored all educators: “Please do not allow the Holocaust to remain a footnote in history...Listen to the words and the echoes and the ghosts and please teach this...”

We hope this Holocaust Film Library will aid you in the important task of education.

HOLOCAUST VIDEOS

# - Department of Jewish Education

JHVC - Jewish Heritage Video Collection

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An Act of Faith – HL 241

Ninety-seven percent of Denmark’s Jewish population survived the war because of the courage and compassion of their countrymen. An Act of Faith tells this story.

Aimee & Jaguar - DVD #716

In the darkest days of World War II, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women, Aimee, a married exemplar of Nazi motherhood, and Jaguar, a member of the Jewish underground. DVD special features include a photo gallery with brief history of the real-lie Aimee and Jaguar. (German with English Subtitles) (125 Minutes)

All My Loved Ones - DVD #726

This poignant story of one Czech Jewish family’s experience at the onset of the Holocaust was inspired by the true-life heroics of Nicholas Winton, an English stockbroker who saved hundreds of Czech Jews from the Nazis. (Czech with English Subtitles) (91 Minutes)

Ambulance (Ambulans) - #612

A haunting short film, based on a cruel reality of the Holocaust, when the vehicle known as a symbol of safety and health was turned into another tool for the Nazis’ campaign of genocide. A group of Jewish school children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance which becomes their death chamber. The film’s absence of dialogue and narration adds to its disturbing power. (15 minutes)

America and the Holocaust - #290

This short film describes the life and legacy of the painter Felix Nussbaum, a German Jew who created a large body of work while hiding in Brussels during World War II. He was eventually arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz, but his paintings survive. Twenty-five years later, one of his cousins brought his paintings to a museum in West Germany, and their display forced many Germans who had stood silent during the Holocaust to confront the past. On the same tape as America and the Holocaust. (30 minutes)

America and the Holocaust: Deceit & Indifference - #315

This video paints a troubling picture of the United States during a period beset by anti-Semitism and a government that, due to complex social and political factors, not only delayed action but suppressed information and blocked efforts that could have resulted in the rescue of hundreds of thousands of people. (Also on Video # 290, with The Art of Felix Nussbaum) (90 minutes)

Andre’s Lives - #551

Dubbed “the Jewish Schindler,” Bauhaus trained architect Andre Steiner saved thousands of Slovak Jews. The last surviving member of the secret and illegal Jewish “Working Group,” Andre helped save over 7000 from deportation to Auschwitz. Now, at 89, he returns to Europe with his sons to grapple with his traumatic memories. (Teacher’s guide available.) (62 minutes)

Anne Frank - #602

Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley, Golden Globe winner Brenda Blethyn and Hannah Taylor Gordon star in the stirring tale of one of the most influential young women of the 20 th century. Based on Melissa Muller’s critically acclaimed book, Anne Frank goes beyond the story you already know and paints the true portrait of Anne both before and after she went into hiding. (2 volume set) (189 minutes)

Anne Frank in Maine - #8

Maine students learn of the Holocaust using textbooks, personal accounts and reenactments. The entire community gets involved when The Diary of Anne Frank is performed. (30 minutes)

Anne Frank in the World - #9

Short documentary about her life as an introduction to the Anne Frank exhibit. (7 minutes)

Anne Frank: Lessons for Humanity - #10

Survivors’ Panel held in New Haven on 11/29/89. This video is part of the Anne Frank exhibit: personal histories told by survivors of the Holocaust.

The Armenians: A Story of Survival - #621

This history of the Armenian people, from their Christian conversion in 301 C.E. to the present, covers their near elimination through 20 th century genocide. Includes interviews with leaders and scholars, including Elie Wiesel. (90 minutes)

The Art of Felix Nussbaum - #290

This short film describes the life and legacy of the painter Felix Nussbaum, a German Jew who created a large body of work while in hiding in Brussels during World War II. He was eventually arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz, but his paintings survived. Twenty-five years later, one of his cousins brought his paintings to a museum in West Germany, and their display forced many Germans who had stood silent during the Holocaust to confront the past. (On the same tape as “America And The Holocaust) (30 minutes)

The Assistant - #541

Frank Alpine is a drifter, struggling for work during the Great Depression. He joins forces with a rough and seedy Ward Minogue and together they rob a small neighborhood grocery store. Frank is shaken when he sees from behind his mask, the violent anti-Seimitism that his partner unleashes on the elderly grocer. Plagued with remorse, Frank goes to work for the grocer, who is now recovering from the violent attack. Keeping his part in the robbery a dark secret, working long, grueling hours, he is drawn to Morris’ beautiful and determined daughter, Helen. As a Gentile, Frank is viewed with suspicion by her mother, Ida Bober. A powerful story from the author of “The Natural” and “The Fixer.” (105 minutes)

At the Crossroads: Jews in Eastern Europe Today - #IJ104

Before World War II more than four million Jews lived in Eastern Europe, outside of the Soviet Union. Today only a handful are left. This video searches for clues to the quality of life among the small numbers of Jews who remain.

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank - #12 & Hl 107

This movie describes the story of Anne Frank by focusing on her experiences hiding with her family in an attic during World War II. (On the same tape as Murders Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story)

Au Revoir, Les Enfants - #175 & HL 189

Acclaimed director Louis Malle tells the life of two boys in France hiding

their Jewish identity during World War II. (103 minutes)

Auschwitz - #530

Historic Soviet army film of the liberation of Auschwitz, with dramatic footage of the survivors and some of the atrocities committed. Included is captured German film of medical experiments performed on prisoners.

Auschwitz: If You Cried, You Died - #322

A 28-minute video chronicling the voyage of two Holocaust survivors as they re-visit the Auschwitz concentration camp. Through the candid, heartfelt comments of the two men, combined with the moving and sometimes shocking visuals, the viewer sees the truth of the Holocaust and becomes aware of the dangers inherent in the growth of prejudice. (Teacher’s guide) (28 minutes)

Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State – DVD #736

Writer Laurence Rees and his team of filmmakers interviewed scores of Nazi perpetrators, death camp survivors, and other eyewitnesses for this 6-part BBC documentary on the history and psychology behind the Nazi terror. DVD extra features include interviews with Laurence Rees and follow-up discussions hosted by Linda Ellerbee. (2 DVDs/300 Minutes)

Austeria - #310

On the first day of World War I, a group of Jews flees from the Cossack army in Polish Galicia and finds itself trapped overnight in a border inn. Relationships develop, love affairs are snatched, and the religious pray. (In Polish with English subtitles) (110 minutes)

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Bearing Witness: American Soldiers and the Holocaust - #678

First person accounts by American veterans relate the story of American soldiers liberating the prisoners from the concentration camps after World War II. (Teacher’s guide available) (22 minutes )

Because of That War - #456

The collaboration of two of Israel’s top rock musicians takes an unexpected turn when they learn that they are both children of Holocaust survivors. A remarkable, passionate and triumphant portrait of a generation emerging from a war it never experienced. (90 minutes)

The Believer – DVD #772

Director Henry Bean explores Jewish identity in America through the story of teenage Danny Balint, a Jew who hates everything about being Jewish. After Danny becomes a Nazi skinhead, he struggles between destroying his own people or being drawn back to Judaism. DVD special features include interview with the director. (99 minutes)

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Address - #423

Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the 12th anniversary dinner of the Holocaust Memorial Center in West Bloomfield, Michigan on October 29, 1995.

Berga: Soldiers of Another War - #700

In December, 1944, thousands of U.S. soldiers captured at the Battle of the Bulge were sent to Stalag 9B. When the Americans refused to identify Jewish soldiers, Nazi guards selected those who “looked Jewish” or who had “Jewish-sounding” names and shipped them to Berga, a satellite of Buchenwald. (90 minutes)

Beyond Hate - #307

Through the experiences of world figures, gang leaders, and young people trying to cope with violence in their lives, Beyond Hate chronicles the impact of hate on its victims and probes its many dimensions. Bill Moyers listens to those gripped by hatred and those victimized by it. He also focuses on individuals and groups who are working to move beyond hatred, to promote tolerance and acceptance. (88 minutes)

The Bielski Brothers – DVD #781

History Channel program about a band of Jews in Belarus who fought the Nazis and saved thousands of lives.

Black Liberators - #164

This documentary is about black soldiers who liberated Jews from the Nazi death camps. (90 minutes)

The Boat Is Full - JHVC

This is a drama of five Jews who escape from Germany and attempt to elude deportation by posing as a family that qualifies to stay in Switzerland. The five are both protected and betrayed by a rural innkeeper and her husband, who respond to the strangers in their midst with a shifting mix of suspicion, resentment, humanity, compassion and doubt. The refugees’ story ultimately unravels, and small-minded Swiss bureaucrats carry out the letter of the law.

Border Street - JHVC

This is one of the first post-war films to depict the Holocaust. It captures the fervor and terror of the Warsaw uprising through the eyes of four youths. Bronek and Wladek are gentiles who consider the occupation an affront to their Polish heritage. For Jews, David and Jadzia, fighting back is their only choice. Their stories intertwine in an emotional fury, as they gallantly defend their lives.

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The Camera of My Family - JHVC

Catherine Hanf Noren narrated this video. Her family made the difficult decision to flee Germany in 1938, just before it was too late. Years later, in old family photographs, Noren discovers haunting images of family outings, decorated soldiers who proudly fought for Germany in World War I, her grandfather’s factory in Dachau – all testify to the integration of German-Jews within the larger society. The trove of photographs leads her to ask questions: Who am I? Where do I belong? How did those to whom I am connected live and die?

Charlotte - #613

Fleeing the encroaching war Charlotte finds herself surrounded by destructive forces from within and without. Throwing herself into her painting, and heartened by evoking the words of her beloved, she finds the strength to reconcile familial depression and her mother’s suicide through portraying the narrative of her life. (93 minutes)

The Children of Chabannes – DVD #755

Emmy Award winning documentary reveals the goodness of administrators and teachers who saved 400 Jewish refugee children in France during World War II. Filmmaker Lisa Gossels accompanies her father and uncle, two of the saved children, to a reunion in Chabannes. (93 minutes)

Conspiracy - #590

Based on the only surviving record, Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci star in this film depicting the Wannasee Conference, at which Hitler’s “final solution” was outlined. (96 minutes)

Courage to Care - #19

Award-winning documentary about righteous gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. (28 minutes)

Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising According to Marek Edelman - #532

Marek Edelman, a member of the Jewish Labor Bund and a leading participant in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, provides an amazingly thorough and vivid account of the historic chain of events from April 19 through May 10, 1942. Edelmen’s memories are augmented by the film’s mesmerizing, poetic use of slow motion and freeze-frame techniques applied to Nazi footage of Jews about to be deported. (70 minutes)

Constantine’s Sword: The Church And The Jews: Forum - #572

James Carroll and others (Elie Wiesel, James Morton, Mary Gordon, and Cynthia Ozick) discuss Carroll’s book, “Constantine’s Sword,” which traces elements of anti-Semitism in the Catholic Church for 2000 years. (120 minutes)

The Cross and the Star - #306

This film finds disheartening echoes of anti-Semitism in the otherwise profound, lyrical Gospel of St. John, the sermons of St. Augustine, the writings of Martin Luther and in the voices of the Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisitors - all of which may have helped sow the ideological seeds that developed into the Nazi Nuremberg laws and the death camps of Auschwitz. The film asks where were the foreign governments, the institutional churches, and the Christian neighbors while the Nazi atrocities were being committed. (55 minutes)

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Daniel’s Story - #274

This video is based upon the experiences of real children who lived at the time of the Holocaust. (Teacher’s guide) (14 minutes)

Danzig, 1939 - JHVC

In July of 1939, ten crates of ritual objects arrived at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. The objects, many antique and extremely valuable, came from the Great Synagogue of Danzig, Germany. The sale of these objects, arranged by the League of Nations, enabled the Jews of Danzig to buy passage out of Germany. They were the only community to do so, and the artifacts they sold to buy their freedom comprise the only such collection to escape the Holocaust. This film interviews current and former residents of the city in a unique tale of survival to come out of the Holocaust.

Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust - #679

The story of three teenage girls who joined the resistance movement against Hitler: Faye, a partisan fighter in Poland; Barbara, who hid Jews in Amsterdam; and Shulamit, who led groups in underground crossings from Hungary to Romania. (58 minutes)

Days of Waiting - #624

A poignant documentary about an extraordinary women, artist Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned with 110, 000 Japanese Americans in 1942. During her internment Ishigo recorded the rigors and deprivations of camp life with unusual insight, her sketches and watercolor forming a moving portrait of the lives of the internees, the struggle to keep their health, dignity, and hope alive. (28 minutes)

Death’s Head Revisited - #578

The Twilight Zone v. 10. In this TV show originally broadcast in 1961, a former Nazi S.S. captain has returned to the scene of his crimes, where he meets one of his victims. . .a most unfortunate encounter, since all of his victims are dead. (Also included on this tape is another episode, “The Obsolete Man”.) (25 minutes)

Dear Kitty - #25

Tells the life of Anne Frank with quotes from the diary, images of where she hid, photos from the family album, and historical film material. Includes some historical background material (without the atrocities) in order to make the historical facts understandable. Begins and ends in the present with Anne’s former school now painted with quotations from her diary. (25 minutes)

A Debt To Honor - #478

A video documentary that tells the compelling stories of ordinary individuals whose personal acts of courage resulted in the rescue of thousands of Jews after the Nazi occupation of Italy in 1943. (29min.)

The Devil’s Arithmetic - #543

Based on Jane Yolen’s young adult novel of the same title, this film stars Kirsten Dunst as a young American girl who learns the importance of holding onto her Jewish heritage when she is transported back in time and experiences the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand.

The Devil Is a Gentleman - JHVC

A 12-minute segment from the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes, this video reviews Adolf Eichmann’s career in the Nazi party and subsequent trial in Israel in an attempt to examine the nature of his character. Drawing upon interviews with people who knew Eichmann, including the prosecuting attorney, a former SS colleague, a psychiatrist, and a Holocaust survivor, the program raises fundamental questions about judgment and responsibility.

The Diary of Anne Frank - JHVC

Since the publication of her diary in 1947 and its translation into dozens of languages, Anne Frank has become a symbol of innocent suffering in the Holocaust, and her story the vehicle through which millions of people have been introduced to this era of history.

Diamonds in the Snow #336

The personal journey of Mira Binford. This is the moving story of Mira Binford and two other women, Israelis Shulamit Levin and Ada Raviv, who were hidden by non-Jews and thus saved from the Nazis. (59 minutes)

A Different World: Poland’s Jews 1919-1943 - #IJ 227 & JHVC

A Different World examines Jewish life in Poland during the crucial inter-war years. It probes the diversity of Jewish political groups whose conflicting goals splintered Jewish unity. Through archival footage, the program chronicles the rise of anti-Semitism within the Polish government and attempts to answer the question of why the Poles turned on their countrymen.

Divided We Fall - #591

This Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film of 2000 tells the true and bittersweet story of a Czechoslovakian couple who hide a young Jewish neighbor in their apartment during the Nazi occupation of their village. This film is noted for its sometimes blurred distinct between victims and villains. (Czech with English subtitles) (122 minutes)

The Double Crossing: The Voyage of the St. Louis - #321

On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Nazi Germany with over 900 Jewish refugees on board, bound for freedom in Havana, Cuba. At first, they thought that they were on “a vacation cruise into freedom.” Their happiness was, however, short-lived. The Cuban government reneged on its promise and refused them entry into the country. Although 734 of the refugees held quota numbers for eventual admission into the United States, the effects of the Great Depression, isolationism, and anti-Semitism all contributed to an anti-immigrant mood and permission for entry was refused. Archival footage plus numerous interviews with survivors of the St. Louis educate us about the past as well as sensitize us to the plight of refugees. (29 minutes)

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Eichmann: The Nazi Fugitive - #451

The capture of this notorious war criminal by Israeli intelligence is reenacted through interviews with the actual Mossad agents who brought him to justice after a worldwide manhunt of 15 years.

Echoes That Remain - #33

Narrated by Martin Landau and Miriam Margolyes, documentary about the people of the shtetl and the world in which they lived.

The Eighty-First Blow - #245

A young Jewish boy in a ghetto is struck with 80 blows. He survives and immigrates to Israel. There the 81st blow is struck - nobody believes his story. This is only one of the stories in this shattering documentary. Built around the testimonies of witnesses at the Eichmann trial, the film features footage and stills shot by the Nazis themselves. A powerful documentary that serves as a memorial to the spirit and courage of those who survived. (115 minutes)

Enemies, A Love Story - JHVC

Isaac Bashevis Singer’s classic story of a Holocaust survivor who must deal with three wives in post-war America. (121 minutes)

Escape from Sobibor - #196

An all-star cast tells of the largest successful escape ever staged from a Nazi concentration camp. This film shows the triumph of the human spirit. (120 minutes)

Europa, Europa - #177

A Jewish boy must pass as part of the Nazi youth party to escape the horrors of the Nazi occupation. (115 minutes)

Everything is Illuminated – DVD #767

Jonathan (Elijah Wood) and his Ukrainian guide search the Ukraine for the woman who saved Jonathan’s grandfather from the Nazis in 1942. From the humorous book by Jonathan Safran Foer. (105 minutes)

Excerpts from My Journal: Dara Horn - #367

The March of the Living commemorates two of the most dramatic events of modern Jewish history - the Shoah (the Holocaust) and the birth of the State of Israel. Thousands of Jewish teens from around the world spend a week in Poland, seeing the areas which were once the center of world Jewry and visiting the death camps in which much of that was destroyed. This video presents one participant’s experience on the March. (17 minutes)

The Exiles - #223

Documentary interviewing survivors of the Holocaust. It discusses how Jewish artists, scholars and intellectuals from Nazi Europe contributed to the course of American cultural and intellectual life. (116 minutes)

Exodus - JHVC

Based on Leon Uris’ best-selling novel, Exodus is the epic story of the birth of Israel. This includes powerful stars Paul Newman as freedom fighter Ari Ben Canaan and Eva Marie Saint as Kitty Fremont, an American nurse who joins Canaan’s fight for a Jewish state. (3 hrs., 28 min.)

The Eye of the Storm - #247

A dramatic classroom experiment conducted in a Midwest farming town demonstrates how quickly the virus of discrimination can infect a group of children. Intending to prove a point about prejudice, the teacher treats students differently according to their eye color. The results of the experiment are truly shocking as hatred and vicious behavior grow within the classroom. (25 minutes)

The Eye of Vichy - #614

French New Wave founder Claude Chabrol creates a masterful look at Nazis and the media manipulation in this brilliantly chosen compilation of long forgotten film footage and newsreels produced by the Nazis and French collaborators during World War II. (110 minutes)

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Facing Evil - #320

This program offers the intimate testimonies of eloquent men and women as they discuss their dramatic confrontations with the force of evil -- and the discovery that exploring evil leads to revelations about goodness. (90 minutes)

Facing Hate: Elie Wiesel with Bill Moyers - JHVC

In his interview with Bill Moyers, Elie Wiesel examines the logic of hatred as expressed in books, religion, history and personal experience. Wiesel discusses the death of his father at Auschwitz, his anger toward the Allies for not acting in time to save the doomed occupants of the death camps, and the hatred he felt from anti-Semites within the camp.

Fateless – DVD #769

Nobel Prize winning author Imre Kertesz’s screenplay adaptation of his semi-autobiographical novel about the experiences of a 14-year-old Jewish boy from Budapest during World War II, including time spent in a concentration camp and return to Budapest after the war. DVD special features include an interview with Kertesz. (140 minutes)

The First Seven Years - #473

The year is 1949. In the immigrant Jewish community of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Feld, a pragmatic shoemaker, and his wife, dream of a better life for their daughter, Miriam. Feld unsuccessfully arranges a match between Miriam and a local college boy. Tragically, the shoemaker is blind to the deep love shared by Miriam and his loyal assistant, a Holocaust survivor. Feld is forced to reassess his most basic assumptions about success, happiness and the American Dream. (28 min.)

Freedom Writers – DVD #795

Hilary Swank plays an inner-city teacher who uses diaries for self-examination to lead her students to see parallels between their lives and those of adolescents suffering through the Holocaust and war in Sarajevo. (Age: HS, A) (122 minutes)

French Children of the Holocaust - #420

This video provides an introduction to the exhibit of photographs comprising “French Children of the Holocaust.” (3 minutes)

A Friendship in Vienna - #275

The innocent friendship between schoolmates Inge and Lise creates tension between their families because Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a high-ranking Nazi. With Hitler in power and World War II about to erupt in Europe, it is a time for fear and uncertainty for all. But as the persecution of the Austrian Jews increases, the girls’ courage grows and their special friendship triumphs over discrimination. (94 minutes)

Frontline - Shtetl - #106

FRONTLINE embarks on a 3-hour quest to uncover the true story of Jewish life in Bransk, before and after the war. Starting as a pilgrimage by a Holocaust survivor from Bransk, Nathan Kaplan, to uncover his roots, the quest is joined by a young Polish gentile historian from Bransk, Marian Marzynski, who is also driven to discover the mystery of the lost Jewish community. (180 minutes)

From Swastika to Jim Crow - #632

The story of Jewish intellectuals who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s and, faced with anti-Semitism in the United States, found teaching positions at black colleges in the segregated South. (60 minutes)

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The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis - #488 + JHVC DVD

(Newly restored version) Amid the ravages of World War II, the Finzi-Continis, a cultured Jewish family, languish in aristocratic splendor on their estate in Ferrara, Italy. As the political atmosphere becomes increasingly hostile to Jews, the carefree Finzi-Contini children turn their home into a refuge for their young friends, where a series of heartbreaking romances spiral into tragedy as fascism descends upon their world. (Italian, with English subtitles) (94 minutes)

Genocide: 1941-1945 - #183

This program, narrated by Laurence Olivier, traces how anti-Semitism and the demonization of the Jews in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s led to the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust.

Genocide - #50 & JHVC

Multi-image documentary of the Holocaust narrated by Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor.

Gloomy Sunday – DVD #778

It is the 1930s and the Germans have marched into Hungary. This story of Budapest pianist, a Jewish restaurateur, and the woman they both love is highlighted by the title song, which reportedly had a fateful impact similar to the one shown on the screen. (German with English subtitles) (Age: A) (114 minutes)

Good Evening Mr. Wallenberg – JHVC #282

This Swedish film chronicles the last days of World War II in Budapest, as Raoul Wallenberg fought tirelessly to save as many as he could and to preserve a semblance of humanity amidst the horror. (In Swedish, German, and Hungarian, with English subtitles) (115 minutes)

The Great Dictator - JHVC

In The Great Dictator, Chaplin plays both a humble Jewish barber and the egomaniacal dictator Adenoid Hynkel of Tomania. As the anti-Jewish climate worsens, the barber finds himself an unlikely hero to his compatriots, who have been resisting deportation to a concentration camp. When the barber is finally sent away, he escapes and is mistaken for Hynkel. In the shoes of the mad leader, Chaplin ends his film with an impassioned plea for tolerance.

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Hangman - #59

Animated film of Maurice Ogden’s poem. People of a town are condemned to die one by one. The last survivor, who has failed to raise his voice in protest, finds himself alone. Strong moral to be drawn here about silent complicity and responsibility.

Hanna’s War - #60

True story of Hannah Szenes, 23-year-old poet from Israel who volunteered during WW II for a secret mission requiring her to parachute into Europe to save Jewish lives in her native Hungary. (148 minutes)

The Harmonists - #536

Based on a true story in 1930 Berlin, three Jewish members are prohibited from performing with a popular singing group, and the group has to choose between music and politics. (115 minutes)

The Hating Movie - #170

This story is about friendship, which turns cold after a misunderstanding. (Teacher’s guide)

Heil Hitler: Confessions of a Hitler Youth - #616

A shocking story based on the book by Alfons Heck, recalling how he became a high-ranking member of the Hitler Youth during World War II. Along with eight million other German children, Heck pledged his life to Adolf Hitler as an impressionable 10-year-old. (30 minutes)

Heritage: Civilization and the Jews - #61

Abba Eban narrates this history of world Jewry. Copy one contains the following three parts: 7, American Jewish Experience; 8, Out of Ashes; 9, Into The Future. Copy two contains only: Part 9 in this series, Into the Future.

Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust - #727

Menahem Daum, an Orthodox Jew, is concerned that his two sons, yeshiva students in Israel, are becoming isolated in their attitudes towards gentiles. To prove that there are good gentiles in the world, he takes them to Poland to meet people who risked their lives to save the boys’ grandfather from the Nazis. (85 Minutes)

Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust - DVD #727

Menahem Daum, an Orthodox Jew, is concerned that his two sons, yeshiva students in Israel, are becoming isolated in their attitudes towards gentiles. To prove that there are good gentiles in the world, he takes them to Poland to meet people who risked their lives to save the boys’ grandfather from the Nazis. (85 Minutes)

Holocaust - #184

An epic series which traces the course of the Holocaust through the eyes of both Jewish and Nazi families. A star-studded cast leads this award-winning three-part motion picture. (7 1/2 hours)

Holocaust: Liberation of Auschwitz - #324

Shows the liberation of Auschwitz. (18 minutes)

The Holocaust: A Teenager’s Experience - #261

When David Bergman was 12 years old, he and his family were shipped to Auschwitz on a cattle train. Miraculously, David survived and when Germany surrendered 14 months later, he was set free. Instead of an impersonal narration of events, the viewer is presented with David’s own testimony of his ordeal as one of the few teenagers to survive the Holocaust. (30 minutes)

The Holocaust: When God Looked Down and Wept - #63

Vivid documentary in three parts narrated by Professor Alex Scharf, a survivor of Auschwitz who lost his whole family in the Holocaust. Tape I contains Parts I and II; Tape 2 contains Part III.

Homo Sapiens 1900 - #558

Examines eugenics, racial hygiene, and the ideas of “the new man” in Germany and the Soviet Union in the 20 th century. (85 minutes)

Hotel Rwanda – DVD #743

Oscar-nominated dramatization of the true story of one man’s stance against savagery during the 1004 Rwanda genicide. Hotel manager Paul Rusesabaginia saved over 1200 Tutsi refugees. (2 hours, 2 minutes)

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie - # 292

Marcel Ophuls’ award-winning documentary work spans more than 70 years, three continents, and 120 hours of interviews as it explores one of World War II’s greatest mysteries. Klaus Barbie, a ruthless SS interrogator known as the “Butcher of Lyon,” was implicated in 4,000 deaths and the deportation of 7,000 Jews from occupied France - and then he disappeared. This film traces the 40-year hunt for Barbie, a hunt initiated by the very governments that later hid him and protected his family. (267 minutes)

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Ich bin Jude! Ich bin Jude! (I’m a Jew! I’m a Jew!) resistance by Jewish youth movement in occupied France – DVD 775

The story of Jewish youth, ages 16-26, who saved thousands of lives through resistance against the Nazis in occupied France. (French with English subtitles) (53 minutes)

Imaginary witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust - #737

AMC television documentary examining the depiction of the Holocaust in Hollywood films, from the earliest films about the rising Nazi threat (such as Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator”) through Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List”. Asks the question: Should the Holocaust be depicted in film at all? (92 minutes)

In The Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine - #497

This documentary studies the step-by-step process that led the medical profession in the Third Reich down an unethical road to genocide. It graphically documents the racial theories and eugenics principles that set the stage for the doctors’ participation in sterilization and euthanasia, the selections at the death camps, as well as inhuman and unethical human experimentation. It provides the historical basis for many current dilemmas in bio-ethical work. (54 minutes)

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport - #577

Academy award winning documentary about the transportation of 10,000 Jewish and other children from German to Great Britain in the months before World War II. Includes rare archival footage and gripping remembrances of child survivors, rescuers, and parents. (117 minutes)

“It Was Nothing…It Was Everything” - #479

Through interviews and archival footage, this video offers reflections on some of the events associated with the rescue of Greek Jews during the Holocaust.

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Jacob the Liar - #516

Jacob is trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps and is detained one evening at Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. In order to be believed, he feigns access to a hidden, strictly forbidden radio. Quickly he becomes a one-man bulwark against despair, a reluctant hero, but a tragic figure still – a man ultimately powerless to see or change the fate of his people. This is the original 1974 German version with English subtitles. (96 minutes)

Jakob The Liar - #548

Based on the book by Jurek Becker. In Nazi-occupied Poland, Jakob (Robin Williams) overhears a forbidden radio news bulletin about a nearby Russian victory and passes on the news. Soon he feigns access to a hidden radio and invents fictitious news reports of Allied advances to keep hope and humor alive in the ghetto. The Germans begin a search for the hidden radio and the resistance hero who operates it. (For the original German film, see: Video #516.) (120 minutes)

Jehovah’s Witnesses stand firm against Nazi assault - #758

10 historians and more than 20 Jehovah’s Witness Holocaust survivors tell the story of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ fight against Nazi persecution. (Age: HS, A) (78 minutes)

Jew-Boy Levi - #601

Germany 1935, a village in the Black Forest, tranquil and peaceful. The villagers are mostly farmers, then there’s Lisbeth who works at the local pub. Cattle trader Levi arrives in the village, as he does every year, to buy calves and convince Lisbeth of his love. This summer, a Nazi engineer is sent from Berlin with a squad crew to repair a tunnel in town. All of a sudden the big bad world bursts into the village. The mechanisms of the shift of mood are examined in this microcosmos – as we see how Nazi thought slowly penetrates in the village. Through minor events, the film with almost lighthearted, casual cruelty, depicts the descend of hatred and tyranny that slowly overcomes this peaceful community and before we fully grasp what has happened, Levi, a friend of everyone in the village, is found dead. (German with English subtitles) (90 minutes)

Joseph Schultz - #83

German soldier refuses to take part in firing squad. Also on 7 Films. (Video #0) (13 minutes)

The Journey of Butterfly - #408

Filmed in Czechoslovakia during the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of Ghetto Theresienstadt by the Nazis, this documentary weaves interviews with survivors and The American Boychoir’s commemorative performance of “I Never Saw Another Butterfly.” This choral work by Charles Davidson is based on the writings of the children imprisoned there from 1942 to 1945. (60 minutes)

Judgment at Nuremberg - #258 & JHVC

This stirring courtroom drama dares to ask one of the most important and emotionally-charged questions of the century: who was responsible for the Holocaust? The film recreated the famous Nazi judicial trial with an extraordinary international cast - Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy, Marlene Dietrich, and many other legendary actors and actresses. The four Nazi judges on trial stand accused of willingly perpetrating the greatest atrocity ever committed against humanity. The Academy Award winning screenplay is enthralling, entertaining, and educating. (187 minutes)

Just a Diary - #85

The life story of Anne Frank is told from the perspective of a 17-year-old Dutch girl. Includes historical film material, images of where the Franks lived during the war and photos from their family album. Portrays the entire life of Anne Frank and background, including the rise of Hitler, persecution of Jews and what happened in the concentration camps. (25 minutes)

JWV - A Place to Remember - #333

A presentation of the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, this film shows photographs of the liberation of the concentration camps.

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Kaddish - #498

“Kaddish” is a astounding profile, about the ways a child copes with an over powering parental legacy. Yossi is a Moses who has seen too much and is trying to write his own Commandments for a crazed new age. (92 minutes)

Kitty: Return to Auschwitz - JHVC

Kitty: A Return to Auschwitz follows Kitty, now a radiographer in England, as she goes back with her grown son to the camp where she survived for two years. She revisits the barracks, the work areas, and the latrines, recalling what existence was like there. While this is clearly painful for her, she endures it to tell her story - which is the story of millions of others as well. She describes the support she and her mother gave each other and the things they did to survive. “You are here,” she tells her son, “just to see that it is true, that it was true, and you can tell you children.”

Korczak - #323

This film of emotional urgency and great lyrical power tells the true story of Janusz Korczak, a renowned physician and author who ran a home for Jewish orphans in 1930’s Warsaw. In Polish with English subtitles (118 minutes)

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The Last Butterfly - DVD # 730

In this dramatization of 1944 in Czech village of Terezin, the Nazis order the great French mime Antoine Moreau to put on the greatest show of his life, portraying to a Red Cross delegation that the Jews live in freedom. Antoine is determined that the world would know the truth regardless of personal risk. (106 minutes)

The Last Chapter - #345

A graphic and eloquent recollection of the 1,000-year history of Poland’s Jews, culminating in the final decimation of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, is contained in a skillfully assembled and impressively presented documentary. Narrated by Theodore Bikel. (85 minutes)

The Last Days - #511

Winner of the 1998 Academy Award for best documentary, this film traces the experiences of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors who now live in the United States, including one U.S. Congressman. The five return to their hometowns, ghettos, and concentration camps, and viewers see the final days of World War II through their eyes. (87 minutes)

The Last Klezmer - #377

Seventy-one year old Leopold Kozlowski is the last of the Polish musicians who grew up in the Klezmer music tradition of pre-World War II. Klezmer is energetic Jewish folk music originally played by itinerant bands in Eastern Europe, revived in the United States as Jewish Jazz or Yiddish Dixieland. Yale Strom, an American protégé, has created this exciting and moving documentary celebrating this fascinating man and his wonderfully up-tempo music. (82 minutes)

Left Luggage - #576

In Belgium in the 1970s, a rebellious young woman – child of Holocaust survivors – who has rejected her Judaism comes to work as a nanny for a Hasidic family. Stars Isabella Rossellini, Maximilan Schell, and Topol. (100 minutes)

Le Golem: The Legend of Prague - #626

The golem was a popular medieval figure that originated in Talmudic lore, supposedly having been brought into existence by the Maharal of Prague, Rabbi Judah Loew to protect the Jewish ghetto. This film is set a generation later, when the Jews of Prague are again threatened. In spite of efforts by the Emperor to find and destroy him, the Golem is once again called upon by the Jewish community, this time to save their spiritual leader from execution. (96 minutes)

Lena, My 100 Children - #297

Taped from the Lifetime Channel on April 5, 1994. (2 hours)

Leon Bass - #88

Highly inspirational video of Dr. Bass, black liberator of Buchenwald, and his view on prejudice.

A Life Apart - #475

In this extraordinarily intimate film, seven years in the making, we are taken into the depths of the Hasidim’s joyous, sometimes harsh, and often beautiful world. From mystical tales to mesmerizing music, Rebbes to Holocaust survivors, A Life Apart reveals a strange, insular world few outsiders have seen, and fewer yet could imagine. (95 min.)

Life is Beautiful - #514

A tale about a charming waiter who’s gifted with a vibrant imagination and an appealing sense of humor, who has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. However, his life is threatened by World War II, and Guido must rely on those very same strengths to save his beloved family from an unthinkable fate! (Italian with English Subtitles) (116 minutes)

Lodz Ghetto - #94 & JHVC

Documentary about the Lodz ghetto based on diaries and monologues written by those who hid from the Germans and survived the war. Begins with the creation of the ghetto in 1939, continues as the Jews are deported to the camps, and concludes as the war ends in 1945. Also contains interviews with survivors.

Looking Into The Face Of Evil - #557

Hitler and the Nazi leaders formed a plan to exterminate the Jewish people, but the acts of persecution and brutality were carried out by ordinary people. How could they suspend their moral obligation? How could the world let them? We must continue to ask these questions, so that the lessons of the Holocaust live on. (29 minutes)

The Lonely Struggle of Marek Edelman - #376

Marek Edelman, a cardiologist in Lodz, is the sole surviving member of the leadership of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance. Dr. Edelman gives us an insider’s account of the few hundred Jewish youngsters who encouraged the decimated prison population to rise up against the Germans and fight to the last. Filmed in Warsaw. Part of the Willy Lindwer Collection. (60 minutes)

The Long Way Home - #447

For the majority of Holocaust survivors, World War II did not end with their liberation from Nazi concentration and death camps. As the personal accounts contained in this academy award winning video demonstrate, the battle to rebuild lives and human dignity continued long after the Allies’ victory. The tumultuous years between 1945-1948, from liberation to the creation of the State of Israel, epitomized the challenges Holocaust survivors faced in recreating their identities from the remnants of their destroyed world.

The Longest Hatred: The History of Anti-Semitism - #325

Through interviews with Semites and anti-Semites as well as prominent scholars in Europe, America, and the Middle East, this program traces anti-Semitism from its earliest manifestations in antiquity to the recent ominous outbreaks in Germany, Russia, and elsewhere. This documentary analysis of anti-Semitism explores the insidious attitude that often casts Jews as “permanent outsiders and threats to society” - an attitude that reached its full horror in Nazi Germany, though it neither began nor ended with the Holocaust. (2 hours, 30 min. color)

Looking into the Face of Evil - #557

Hitler and the Nazi leaders formed a plan to exterminate the Jewish people, but the acts of persecution and brutality were carried out by ordinary people. How could they suspend their moral obligation? How could the world let them? Time passes and memories fade. Still we must continue to ask these questions – so that the difficult lessons of the Holocaust live on. (29 minutes)

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The Man Who Captured Eichmann - #458

Robert Duvall and Arliss Howard star in the story of the 20 th century’s most daring manhunt. Based on the memoir “Eichmann in My Hands” by Israeli operative Peter Malkin and filmed on location in Argentina. (96 minutes)

March of the Living - 1988 - #97

Award-winning documentary showing the march of 1500 teenagers on a trip to Eastern Europe and Israel. The main focus of the trip was the March of the Living - the two-mile walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau, which was once a walk of death. Includes footage of the trip mixed with archival footage and interviews.

March of the Living Recruitment Tape - #98

Excerpts from the March of the Living documentary.

Mein Kampf - #259

Adolf Hitler’s hate-filled diatribe spelled out the terrifying details of what he intended for those he considered “subhuman.” No one listened, and this was one of the most tragic lessons of the 20th century. This cinematic classic, specially remastered and re-released, lays bare the mind-numbing steps taken by Hitler in his attempts to take over the world. It is a rare chance to examine a case in which evil was allowed to triumph. Graphic footage, clinically documented by the SS, helps enforce the horror and reminds us of the enormity of mass human annihilation that one man was able to visit upon the world. It is one of history’s most terrible lessons, but one that must be learned well so that such a crime will never be allowed to happen again. (117 minutes)

Mendel - #38

During the years of 1954 and 1955, nine-year-old Mendel and his family who are displaced and homeless in their native Germany, immigrate to Norway. As Mendel adapts to his new surroundings, he forms his own sense of Jewish identity, confronts anti-Semitism and persistently seeks the truths of the Holocaust that neither his parents nor his older brother is willing to share with him. This compelling story is based on the experiences of director Alexander Rosler. English subtitles.

Miracle At Midnight - #448

Based on historical events, this brilliant, emotionally-charged film takes place during the World War II Nazi occupation of Denmark. It describes the heroism of the Danes who risked their own lives to save their Jewish countrymen from the Holocaust. (89 minutes)

Miracle at Moreaux – DVD #773

Set in 1943, this is the story of three Jewish children fleeing the Nazis who find refuge in a Catholic school. Based on the true story “Twenty and Ten” by Claire Huchet Bishop (our library call # YA F Bis). (58 minutes)

Miss Rose White - #99

Based on the play A Shayne Maidel, a moving story of a Jewish survivor who goes to live with her Americanized sister in New York City. This causes the sister and the rest of the family to confront their pasts in order to discover their own identities.

Mr. Death - #545

In Errol Morris’s documentary, subtitled “The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.,” a mousy, mild-mannered Boston-born builder of execution devices gets illusions of omniscience when his cockeyed notions are adopted by Holocaust deniers. Sent by them to Auschwitz in 1988, Mr. Leuchter furtively chips masonry from rooms once used as gas chambers at Auschwitz. Finding no residue of cyanide, he concludes that there were no gas executions at the camp. That makes him a fixture of the neo-Nazi lecture circuit in Europe, but here he makes creepy company in “the best comedy-horror documentary about the Holocaust ever made”.

Mr. Klein - #459

Set in France in 1942 at the beginning of the Nazi occupation, “Mr. Klein” is a Hitchcockian suspense which tells of a Catholic man’s search for a Jew who shares his name - and who has stolen his identity.

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story #104

Documentary about Holocaust historian and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.

Music Box - JHVC

Questions of memory and emotion loom large in Music Box, an intense courtroom thriller about a Chicago attorney (Jessica Lange) who defends her Hungarian immigrant father (Armin Mueller-Shahl) against charges of war crimes. As Ann Talbot, Lange must establish innocence even as she wrestles with growing doubts about her father’s dubious past. In a sudden twist the trial shifts to Hungary, where Ann’s waning objectivity succumbs to anger.

My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering The Kindertransports - #523

Joanne Woodward narrates this film, which recalls the escape of Jewish children from Germany during World War II. (Also included on this video is “America And The Holocaust: Deceit And Indifference”)

My Mother’s Courage - #455

Acclaimed Director Michael Verhoeven has taken Hungarian author George Tabori’s autobiographical play and created a strange, satirical and darkly humorous film about fate and human cruelty during the Holocaust. Pauline Collins stars as Elsa Tabori, a quiet Budapest housewife, who is arrested by Hungarian police one summer day in 1944.

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The Nasty Girl - #277

In this provocative comedy, Sonja is ‘The Nasty Girl,’ a young girl whose digging for the truth gets her buried in the cover-up. A school project inspires Sonja to investigate her town’s past - a subject which seems to upset her neighbors. Sonja soon discovers that her small town has some big secrets - secrets the town wants left that way. (94 minutes)

The Nazi Officer’s Wife – DVD #717

Susan Sarandon narrates the story of Edith Hahn, a Jewish woman who married a Nazi party member and assumed a new identity to survive the Holocaust. (100 Minutes)

Night and Fog - #276

This award-winning short film uses actual black-and-white footage and is shot inside Hitler’s concentration camps. It contrasts sharply with beautiful contemporary color scenes of the death camps 10 years after the carnage ended. A surreal journey of horror, written by a novelist who survived imprisonment during the Third Reich. A brilliant and disturbing document. In French with English subtitles. (Study guide) (32 minutes)

Nightmare: The Immigration of Joachim and Rachel - #174

This is the story of two Jewish children and their escape from the Nazi occupied Warsaw ghetto to a bright future in America. (Teacher’s guide)

Nives “The French Children of the Holocaust” - #502

A presentation by a Holocaust Survivor, Ernest Nives about his life and lives of French Children during the Holocaust which includes an exhibition of this time. (60 minutes)

Not in Our Town - #599

This video is the inspiring story of the people of Billings, Montana, who took a stand against a series of hate crimes in their community. Together, they lived up to the American values of courage, tolerance, and cooperation when forces of disintegration threatened. (27 minutes)

Not in Our Town II - #729

This documentary travels to communities inspired to act against intolerance by the story of Billings, Montana (recounted in “Not in Our Town” video #599). From Illinois to New York to South Carolina and more, citizens rebuild churches, act to prevent racially motivated arson, and create positive solutions to hate violence and the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan activity. (57 minutes)

Now After All These Years – JHVC

How do current residents of Rhina recall that time? In Now...After All These Years, a German filmmaker tries to reconstitute Rhina’s history by talking to Jewish survivors living in New York and to the Germans who remain. Everywhere in Rhina he is met with denial, avowed ignorance, and an angry refusal to confront the past. The residents’ evasive responses reveal much about the climate leading up to the Holocaust as well as the unwillingness of ordinary men and women to acknowledge or atone for their part in it.

Nowhere in Africa - #702

The tale of a Jewish attorney and his family who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya (based on a true story). DVD special features include filmmaker’s commentary, interviews with cast and crew, deleted scenes, photo montage, and more. (German with English subtitles) (142 minutes / 2 DVDs)

Nuremberg Trials - #107

Documentary of the post World War II War Crimes Trials.

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One Day in September - #575

Academy Award winning documentary about the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Includes the perspective of the only surviving terrorist. (94 minutes)

One Survivor Remembers - #392

Travel along a journey with Gerda Weissman Klein, a Holocaust survivor, as she describes one of the most devastating events in the history of mankind through a series of interviews, photographs, and footage shot in actual locations. It’s hard not to be deeply affected by the dignity and simple elegance of the film as she tells her story with profound sadness and extraordinary grace. (39 minutes)

The Only Way - #256

In one incredible night, 8000 people disappeared from the face of the Earth. When the Nazis invaded Denmark in 1940, the Danish government promised peaceful cooperation as long as the Jews of Denmark remained free. The Nazis agreed, but in October of 1943 the pact was broken. The Danes saw that the Nazis could not be trusted and that the lives of all Danish Jews were in jeopardy. This is the amazing true story of how the people of Denmark valiantly saved the Danish Jews from extermination, despite the obvious danger to their own lives. Jane Seymour and Martin Potter star in this depiction of one of the greatest escapes the world has ever known. (86 minutes)

The Oppermanns - JHVC

The Oppermanns , a drama made for German TV, recounts how one wealthy German-Jewish family responded during these pivotal years. As the film opens, the family meets to discuss merging their furniture business with that of an old rival, who may be a Nazi. But the Oppermann brothers - the store’s manager, a doctor and a man of letters - continue to emotionally resist acknowledging the extent of Nazi gains. Finally, they can resist no longer.

The Other Side of Faith - #109

Documentary filmed on location in Poland which tells the story of a 16-year-old Polish Catholic girl who for 2 1/2 years saved 13 Jewish men, women and children during the Holocaust. Told by one of the survivors, this is a compelling reminder of exceptional courage. (27 minutes)

Our memories of the New Haven Holocaust Memorial - DVD #792

Presentations by Andy Horowitz, Director of the New Haven Oral History Project at Yale, and Michael C. Brown, Yale senior and oral historian, at the April 26, 2006, ceremony to re-dedicate the newly restored New Haven Holocaust Memorial, the first such memorial on public lands in the U.S. With photos by David Ottenstein.

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A Painful Reminder - JHVC

The film sketches Hitler’s rise to power, then provides gruesome details of concentration and extermination camps such as Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald and Auschwitz. Besides on-the-scene comments by British troops, A Painful Reminder follows the stories of several Jewish survivors, and carefully shows German municipal officials and citizens at the death camps. The film addresses the post-war political considerations that led to its being shelved for so many years.

Paper Clips – DVD #763

How an after-school class geared towards teaching tolerance in primarily white Protestant Whitwell, TN, undertook and carried out the construction of a Holocaust memorial based on six million paperclips. DVD special features include interviews with Holocaust survivors. (See also the companion book, “Six Million Paper Clips,” call number YA 940.477 Sch) (2 DVDs, 84 minutes)

Paper Clips: Educational Version - DVD #763a

How an after-school class geared towards teaching tolerance in primarily white Protestant Whitwell, TN, undertook and carried out the construction of a Holocaust memorial based on six million paperclips. Educational version special features include 4 curriculum lessons for junior and senior high school, study guide, quiz, student handouts, and educator’s guide. (Age: YA, HS, A) (See also the companion book, “Six Million Paper Clips,” call number YA 940.477 Sch) (84 minutes)

Partisans of Vilna - #250 & JHVC

The Jewish resistance during WWII is celebrated in this stirring, heartbreaking tribute to the unsung heroes of the war. Jewish youth who organized the underground resistance and fought against the Nazis in the woods are recognized with archival footage and interviews in Hebrew, English, and Yiddish. (130 minutes)

Passport to life: The Rescue of Budapest Jews – DVD #760

The story of diplomats of five neutral countries stationed in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944 who worked together to save an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 Jews from the Nazis. (Age: HS, A) (56 minutes)

The Pawnbroker - #278 & JHVC

Rod Steiger gives a mesmerizing performance as the embittered survivor of a Nazi death camp who can’t escape the ghosts of his past and the powerful lesson that awaits him in the future. Now a Harlem pawnbroker, Sol Nazerman condemns the dregs of society that pass through his shop and ridicules his idealistic assistant, Ortiz. (116 minutes)

The Pianist - #692

Roman Polanski’s award winning presentation of the true-life story of Polish pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman’s survival in war-torn Warsaw, aided by a German officer who heard him playing Chopin amidst the rubble. DVD bonus features include insights into the making of the film and its authenticity, Roman Polanski’s own story of survival during World War II, interviews with Oscar winners Roman Polanski and Adrien Brody, and clips of Szpilman playing the piano. (2 hrs. 30 minutes)

The Pianist – DVD #692

Roman Polanski’s award winning presentation of the true-life story of Polish pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman’s survival in war-torn Warsaw, aided by a German officer who heard him playing Chopin amidst the rubble. DVD bonus features include insights into the making of the film and its authenticity, Roman Polanski’s own story of survival during World War II, interviews with Oscar winners Roman Polanski and Adrien Brody, and clips of Szpilman playing the piano. (2 hrs. 30 minutes)

Primo Levi - The Memory of the Offence - #298

The acclaimed Italian author and survivor taped from PBS on April 5,1994. (1 hour)

Photographer – DVD #724

In 1987, 400 color slides were found—photographs taken n the Lodz Ghetto by Walter Genewein, the Nazi’s chief accountant for the salve labor camps for Jews. This film juxtaposes Genewein’s chilling photos with narration by Dr. Arnold Mostowicz, a Lodz Ghetto survivor. (76 minutes)

The Power of Good – DVD #746

Award winning documentary abut the courage and determination of a young British stockbroker, Nicholas Winton, who saved the lives of 669 children from the Nazis by organizing transports from Prague to Great Britain in 1939. DVD includes 70 minutes of extra interview footage and additional short films on the rescue operation, the life of Sir Winton, and the lives of some of the children he saved. (Teachers’ guide available.) (64 minutes)

Primo – DVD #748

Based on “If This Is a Man” by Primo Levi; adapted and performed by Antony Sher. Theatrical portrait of Primo Levi, his life and his Holocaust experiences. (Age: HS, A) (110 minutes

Purple Triangles - #615

An episode of the television program Purple Triangles, which was shown on British television as part of the series “The Human Factor.” The story of the Kusserow family, Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted under Hitler’s Nazi regime.

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The Quarrel - #203

A chance meeting between old friends rekindles a debate from their days at a Polish yeshiva. One has founded a yeshiva and pursued a traditional Jewish life, while the other has chosen secular Judaism. Each tries to show the other why his choice is the more valid one in a post-Holocaust world. A thought-provoking examination of a highly charged issue. (83 minutes)

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Rene and I – DVD #797

The true story of Rene Slotkin and Irene Hizme, who as young twins endured years of Josef Mengele’s experiments at Auschwitz and then survived and prospered in America. (75 minutes)

Return to Life - #563

Five survivors tell their stories from the moment they came out of the death camps, the forests and their hiding places, until the day they immigrated to Israel and resumed a normal life. (60 minutes)

Return to the Jewish Ghetto of Venice - #118

Venice past and present is portrayed. (28 minutes)

The Revolt of Job - #279

Story of a Jewish farmer and his wife who adopt an orphan. The film follows the family as World War II comes to the Hungarian countryside and affects their lives. Hungarian with English subtitles. (98 minutes)

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Schindler’s List - #311 & JHVC

Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece chronicles the true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer, and war profiteer who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of his heroism. (B/W with color segments) (Teacher’s guide) (3 hours 17 minutes)

Schindler’s List – DVD #311

Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece chronicles the true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer, and war profiteer who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of his heroism. (B/W with color segments) (Teacher’s guide) (3 hours 17 minutes)

Schindler: His Story As Told By the Actual People He Saved - #295 & JHVC

“Schindler” is a riveting documentary that offers testimony from those who knew the real man: his wife, the mistress of Amon Goeth, SS supervisor of the Plaszow camp, and many of “Schindler’s Jews.” However elusive his motives or flawed his character, Schindler was an angel to them in the midst of hell.

Second Generation - #685

Ten strangers, all children of Holocaust survivors, met in a psychological group marathon session in Jerusalem and discovered that what they thought were their private problems were actually shared by second generation survivors worldwide. (80 minutes)

7 Films - #0

A collection of seven films on varied subjects: “About Your Mother,“ “Anderson Boy,” “Rachel,” “The Day Grandpa Died,” “The Giving Tree,” “Joseph Schultz,” and “To Touch a City.”

Shanghai Ghetto - DVD #744

Martin Landau narrates the true story of thousands of European Jews who fled Nazi persecution during WWII and ended up in Japanese-controlled Shanghai. Includes interviews, photos, and archival footage. (97 minutes)

Shtetl - #106

FRONTLINE embarks on a 3-hour quest to uncover the true story of Jewish life in Bransk, before and after the war. Starting as a pilgrimage by a Holocaust survivor from Bransk, Nathan Kaplan, to uncover his roots, the quest is joined by a young Polish gentile historian from Bransk, Marian Marzynski, who is also driven to discover the mystery of the lost Jewish community. (180 minutes)

Ship of Fools - #248

Tensions flare between four strangers aboard a luxury liner bound for Germany in 1933. Vivien Leigh is a divorcee desperate for love, Simone Signoret is a deported Spanish noblewoman, Lee Marvin is an aging, alcoholic ballplayer, and Jose Ferrer is a budding Nazi. Their separate but interrelated stories mirror a world on the verge of war. Nominated for 8 Academy Awards and featuring Leigh in only her third American appearance. (149 minutes)

Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust - #136 & JHVC

Claude Lanzmann’s critically acclaimed Holocaust documentary. Using no archival images, it presents the destruction of European Jewry through the words of those who were there: victims, witnesses and perpetrators. (660 minutes - in 5 parts)

The Shop on Main Street - #66

This film is about an elderly Jewish shop owner whose business was confiscated by the Germans and given to a non-Jew to run. The relationship between the two grows, albeit with tragic consequences.

Skokie - #241

Hatred can erupt anywhere at anytime, and when it broke out in the small town of Skokie, Illinois, it made history. With a large community of Nazi death camp survivors who had rebuilt their shattered lives, Skokie provided an easy target for anti-Semitism. When a Neo-Nazi group chose to march in Skokie, the outraged citizens fought vehemently to stop it. The confrontation divided the town politically and religiously and etched itself into the nation’s memory forever. The story of Skokie is brought to the screen with outstanding performances by Danny Kaye, Brian Dennehy, and Eli Wallach. (121 minutes)

So Many Miracles – JHVC

In So Many Miracles, survivors Israel and Frania Rubinek return to Poland to meet with Sofia, the woman who hid them. Aware of German atrocities, the couple had lived in a bunker in the town of Pinczow, fled, then returned to hide with Sofia, who sheltered them despite her husband’s reluctance. They all stayed in the same house for over two years, narrowly avoiding detection at times. Their reunion, 40 years later, speaks of the power of bonds forged at a time when they were forbidden.

Sophie Scholl: the final days – DVD #793

In 1942 and 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl, students at the University of Munich, along with other students and a teacher calling themselves the White Rose, distributed leaflets in southern Germany and Austria calling for resistance against the Nazis. This film focuses on Sophie Scholl’s final six days in Feb., 1943, from the preparation of the last leaflet to her capture, interrogation, sentencing, and execution. DVD special features include historical interviews and behind-the-scenes footage. (German with English subtitles.) (117 minutes)

Sophie’s Choice - #142

Based on William Stryron’s best-selling novel, this is the story of a southern writer who becomes deeply involved with the lives of an eccentric Jewish man and his Catholic lover Sophie, who is a survivor of Auschwitz. (155 minutes) (Also on Video #52, with Goodbye, Columbus)

The Sorrow and the Pity: Chronicle of a French City under the Occupation - #542

This landmark 1969 documentary by Marcel Ophuls combines interviews and newsreel footage to explore the Nazi occupation of one small French city, Clermont-Ferrand. A shattering portrait of how ordinary people conducted themselves in extraordinary circumstances. Part 1: “The collapse”; part 2: “The choice”. (French with English subtitles) (260 minutes, 2 cassettes)

Stolen Childhood - #410

Three Holocaust survivors relate the changes they experienced in their lives as children during the Nazi occupation.

The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz - #535

In order to facilitate the destruction of Poland’s three million Jews, the Nazis forced them to establish Jewish Councils responsible for administration of the Polish ghettos. Chaim Rumkowski, appointed Chairman of the Lodz Jewish Council, was responsible for establishing a vast bureaucracy which administered all social services within the ghetto. Utilizing rarely seen archival materials, including hundreds of photographs taken by Jewish Council photographers, the video depicts the activities of the Jewish Council, the conditions of daily life for ghetto inhabitants, Rumkowski’s relationship to the Nazis, the gradual disintegration of the ghetto, and the deportations to the death camps. (55 minutes)

Sugihara: Conspiracy of Silence - DVD #740

The story of Chiune Sugihara, Japan’s consul-general in Lithuania, who wrote visas that saved over 2000 Jews from the Nazis. Includes Sugihara family home videos, and papers as well as interviews with survivors and their descendants. (82 minutes)

The Suicide of a Camp Survivor: The Case of Primo Levi - #312

The story of an assimilated Italian Jew, a chemist of no particular renown whose efforts to survive in Fascist Italy were finally thwarted when he was deported to Auschwitz. He survived there through no effort of his own while tens of thousands around him were slaughtered - people possibly nobler, more valuable than he. He emerged from the experience a superb writer and a scarred man, who in his works sought to remember, bear witness to, and above all understand the human qualities that emerge on the sharp edge of despair. (72 minutes)

The Summer of Aviya - #43

The story of one summer in the life of a ten-year-old girl, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, during the first years of Israel’s independence. It is a personal story, based on the life of Gila Almagor, writer/producer and star of the film. Aviya’s mother had been a partisan fighter during the war, with a number tattooed on her arm; she walked the thin line between sanity and madness. Aviya had lived in orphanages most of her life. This was the summer she would return home. (96 minutes)

Survivors of the Holocaust - #381

This Steven Spielberg production weaves together archival footage and an original musical score with survivors’ personal testimonies and photographs. It chronicles life in pre-war Europe, the devastating impact of Nazism, the liberation of the concentration camps and life fifty years later. As survivors relive their stories on camera, many for the first time, those who watch cannot come away without being deeply affected. (70 minutes)

Survivors of the Shoah: Ernest Nives #422

This is an interview of a French childhood survivor of the Holocaust. The interview was conducted by Barbara Traub for the Visual History Foundation on January 20, 1995. (2 hours 30 minutes)

Swing Kids - JHVC

Robert Sean Leonard (star of Dead Poets Society) is Peter, the leader of a rebellious group of Swing Kids. Every week, Peter and his friends openly defy the Gestapo by dancing the jitterbug at parties in Hamburg. But as the pressure to join the Hitler Youth takes its toll on the Swing Kids, one by one, each is faced with a brutal choice - loyalty to their cause or loyalty to Germany’s.

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Tea With Mussolini - #526

Based on the childhood memories of director Franco Zeffirelli, this film is set in Florence on the brink of World War II. Starring Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith as British and American women who stay on in Italy and shelter an outcast boy. (117 minutes)

The Tenth Man - #226

Anthony Hopkins is Chavel, a wealthy lawyer whose French village is captured by the Nazis during WWII. When he is sentenced to death, Chavel trades his estate to a man desperate to provide for his family. Chavel is released years later, returns to his home, and soon a complicated web of deceit, passion, and murder threatens to destroy him. An award-winning cast stars in this adaptation of a novella by Graham Green. (99 minutes)

Theresienstadt: A Gateway to Auschwitz - #683

Through interviews with child survivors, this film portrays life in Theresienstadt, the Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia set up to house deportees on their way to annihilation in the East. (57 minutes)

Terezin Diary - JHVC

Through interviews with survivors who were children in the camp, Terezin Diary documents the terrible conditions of life in Theresienstadt, as the Germans called it, as well as the artistic, educational, and spiritual activities that sustained inmates who were spared deportation.

There Once Was A Town: A Remarkable Journey Of Hope And Survival - #553

Based in part on Yaffa Eliach’s book “There Once Was a World” (library call #: 947 Eli), this documentary chronicles the remarkable return journey of four survivors of the 1941 Nazi massacre at Eishyshok, Poland (now Lithuania). (90 minutes)

They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust - #172

Interviews with people who risked their lives and their families to save Jews. (54 minutes)

Time to Remember - #335

This video is an Anti-Defamation League presentation of photographs of the Holocaust with voice over explanations. (19 minutes)

Tkuma – The First 50 Years - #538

This video contains the first 2 parts of a 22-part Israeli television series. The first part, Flight for Survival, documents the painful tragedies suffered by both Jews and Arabs during the 1948 War of Independence. It follows the massive waves of immigration during the early years and their eventual socio-economic and political impact on the country. It also confronts the painful reality of survivors of the Holocaust who arrived as refugees and the process of creating a national and cultural identity for a fledgling state. The second part, Battle for Peace, tells of opposing camps and ideologies the clash between the Israeli right and its vision of the Greater Land of Israel, and the Israeli left prepared to exchange land for peace. The film shows the political upheavals of the Likud’s rise to power, Rabin’s triumph for the Labor party in, and Binyamin Netanyahu’s campaign based on “peace with security.” It looks at Israel’s economic problems, the astonishing wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia, and the horror and shock at the assassination of the Prime Minister in 1955. (104 minutes)

Train of Life - #574

In 1941, the Nazis are coming to a small town in France, but Shlomo, the village idiot, has a plan. Before the Germans can dispatch them to the camps, the Jews will “deport” themselves. They build their own train and, masquerading as Nazis and their prisoners, attempt a daring escape. Comic and poignant tribute to human spirit. (French with English subtitles) (103 minutes)

To Be Or Not To Be – JHVC

Jack Benny and Carole Lombard star as a husband and wife acting team who perform with a Warsaw company on the brink of World War II. In this black comedy, the actors assume clever disguises to outwit the Germans and foil a Nazi plot. (99 minutes)

Transport from Paradise - JHVC

Transport From Paradise captures the surreal atmosphere of Theresienstadt during a 24-hour period marked by preparations for an inspection tour by the Red Cross, the making of a propaganda film depicting a well-fed and happy populace, and the deportation that followed. An original, masterful work, Transport From Paradise depicts the charade of the “city” that the Nazis proclaimed was “given by the Fuehrer to the Jews.”

Trial at Nuremberg - JHVC

Trial at Nuremberg was broadcast in 1958 on the CBS documentary series, “The Twentieth Century,” hosted by Walter Cronkite. The program is a review of key moments from the trial and includes captured German Amy film footage depicting the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and the horrors of the concentration camps.

A Tribute to Anne Frank #425

A tribute commemorating the 60th anniversary of Anne Frank’s birth presented with musical renditions and dramatic readings of her diary by renowned actors and actresses. Introduction of the program is done by Gregory Peck. (60 minutes)

Triumph of the Spirit - #249 & JHVC

You lose, you die. Those are the rules by which Salamo Arouch, a Balkan middle-weight boxing champion, is forced to play. When he and his family are sent to Auschwitz, Salamo is given a chance to survive by fighting inmates to entertain SS officers. In these fights, the winner lives only to fight again, and the loser is killed. Salamo fights to live but wonders how he can save his loved ones, his friends, and his soul in the process. A riveting story featuring an exceptional performance by Willem Dafoe as Salamo. (120 minutes)

Triumph of the Will - #244

A frightening look at how the Nazi party was able to control an entire nation. Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda movie, filmed during the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, provides terrifying insight into the awesome hypnotic power one man had over the German people. (110 minutes)

Truimph of the Will - #DVD 244

Leni Riefenstahl’s classic propaganda movie, filmed during the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany. DVD special features include commentary by historian Anthony Santoro and the Leni Riefenstahl short film, “Day of Freedom” (17 minutes). (German with English subtitles) (120 minutes)

The Truce - #491

John Turturro portrays Italian writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi in the period immediately after his liberation from Auschwitz. Based on “The Reawakening,” an autobiographical account by Levi, the film follows the writer as he makes the long journey home to Italy through a series of displaced persons camps. (117 minutes)

Tsvi Nussbaum: Boy from Warsaw - #280

Many of us are familiar with the photograph of a little boy, his arms raised in surrender, as a German soldier trains his machine gun on him. The photograph has come to symbolize the suffering of the entire Jewish people during the Holocaust. Who was this little boy? Did he survive the War? Where was the photo taken and under what circumstances? This video, about the life of Tsvi Nussbaum, answers all these questions. (50 minutes)

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Under the Domim Tree - #409

A powerful coming-of-age story based on the autobiographical memoir by Gila Almagor tells the poignant and sometimes harrowing story about a group of teenagers living in a youth village for orphans who survived the Nazi concentration camps and other troubled Israeli youths in the 1950s. During the day, the students seem like any other normal teens, but when night falls, painful memories of the horrors of the Holocaust resurge. When life becomes unbearable, the teens find refuge under the beautiful Domim Tree - the only place where they feel at peace. (102 minutes) (Hebrew with English subtitles)

Unlikely Heroes - #693

This documentary highlights the stories of seven extraordinary Jewish resisters during the Holocaust. (2 hours)

Uprising - #592

Special TV movie about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising on Jan. 18, 1943. Stars Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight, and Donald Sutherland. (Teacher’s guide available) (177 minutes)

Uprising – DVD #592

Special TV movie about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising on Jan. 18, 1943. Stars Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight, and Donald Sutherland. (Teacher’s guide available) (177 minutes)

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Varian Fry: The Artist’s Schindler - #628

In 1941, a young Harvard-educated journalist left New York with a list of around two hundred names. The names belonged to European artists and intellectuals unable to escape Nazi occupied territories. Varian Fry’s mission was to aid those at risk of persecution by covertly providing a means of escape. (50 minutes)

Verdict on Auschwitz: the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial 1963-1965 – DVD #774

The history of Auschwitz, as captured through personal testimonies by 360 survivors at the 1963-65 Frankfurt trial against 22 SS members accused of mass murder. Disc 1: Long version (1993) (180 minutes, German with English subtitles); Disc 2: Short version (2006) (60 minutes, German with English subtitles and narration).

A View From The Underside: The Legacy Of Dietrich Bonhoeffer - #518

This play, based on a true story, is set in the prison cell where Dietrich Bonhoeffer awaits execution for his involvement with the German resistance movement during World War II. Bonhoeffer tells of the profound influence of Fellow Union Thelological student Frank Fisher, an African-American, who introduced Bonhoeffer to the blight of racism in America, leading to moral outrage against Nazi treatment of Jews. (50 minutes)

The Visas That Saved Lives - #404

At 5:15, one summer morning in 1940, Chiune Sugihara, Japan’s consul-general in Lithuania, awoke to the sound of over 200 persons filling the crowded street outside the consulate. The consul immediately hid his wife and children, fearing the worst. It did not take him long; however, to realize that those outside were Jews hoping to get visas that would take them out of the country to freedom. While the American consuls throughout the neutral world were instructed not to grant such visas, the Japanese consul took it upon himself to do just that, working day and night issuing an estimated 1600 visas. (115 minutes)

Visions: Jewish American Hall of Fame - #436

A unique and exciting way to learn about prominent Jews who have made important contributions to society.

Visualizing Memory…A Last Detail - #438

Peter Kleinman, a native of Czechoslovakia, was deported to Auschwitz in 1941. Using his experience, this video is composed of five vignettes that examine questions such as: Do we really know what the term prejudice means? Should Auschwitz become a museum to remind us of the past? Produced in conjunction with the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre.

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Walk on Water

In this Israeli thriller, a Mossad agent is sent to eliminate an aging former Nazi, but in the process he befriends the Nazi’s grandchildren and faces his own doubts and troubled history. (English Language, with some parts in Hebrew and German with English subtitles.) (103 Minutes)

The Wannsee Conference - #260 & JHVC

While they enjoyed cigarettes, brandy, and a buffet lunch in a peaceful Berlin suburb, a group of men decided the systematic extermination of eleven million Jewish people! It was at the Wannsee conference that the “final solution” was proposed. Director Heinz Schirk uses actual notes from the meeting along with letters by Goering and Eichmann to recreate the events of the fateful meeting. Though it only lasted 85 minutes, the Wannsee Conference set the stage for the most hideous crime in history. (85 minutes)

Warsaw Ghetto - #471

Vladka Meed, survivor of the Jewish Underground in Warsaw, recalls the Holocaust, telling of the flourishing Jewish civilization in Poland before World War II and then tracing the history of the Warsaw Ghetto, the German mass murder, and the Jewish resistance. (Teacher’s guide available.)

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - #281 & JHVC

This video utilizes archival film footage and authentic still photographs, along with actual testimonies of survivors of the ghetto to help us understand that brief and courageous chapter in Jewish history. Beginning with the Nazi invasion of Poland, we are led step-by-step through the deportations, life in the ghetto, the formation of a resistance organization and finally the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (22 minutes)

Watermarks – DVD #750

The story of Hakoah, the legendary Viennese Jewish women’s swimming club, founded in 1909 and disbanded under the veil of anti-Semitism and persecution in 1938. Told through historical footage and contemporary interviews with 7 survivors reunited at their old Viennese swimming pool. (In English, German, and Hebrew, with optional English subtitles.) (77 minutes)

The Wave - #153

Dramatization of classroom experiment teaching about the Holocaust, social evil and complicity. (45 minutes)

We Were There - #303

A powerful story about the special relationship between Jewish-American G.I.s and the survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. At a time when neo-Nazi revisionists are claiming that the Holocaust never happened, this broadcast program is a testament to the truth.

Weapons of the Spirit - #154 & JHVC

Story of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in France, and how its citizens responded to the Nazi terror against the Jews. While other French people were delivering 75,000 Jews to the Gestapo, 5,000 residents took in and saved 5,000 Jews who came to them for shelter and refuge. The narrator was born to parents sheltered by farmers in the area and the video includes interviews with the rescuers, the Jews they saved, newsreel footage, photos and historical accounts. (38 minutes - viewer’s guide)

The Western Tradition: The First World War And The Rise Of Fascism And The Second World War - #271

Scholar and author Eugene Webber hosts this dynamic exploration of western civilization and history. In this installment of the critically acclaimed series, Webber addresses the periods of conflict that gave rise to both the First and Second World Wars. Includes images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and analysis of the themes and personalities of the eras that add up to a fascinating and thoughtful look at war.

Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die - JHVC

Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? Takes a hard look at the U.S. failure to open its doors to Jewish refugees and the Jewish role in that failure. The film includes interviews with those active in and out of government in the 1940s - Peter Bergson, Nahum Goldmann, and John Pehle of the War Refugee Board, among others - whose views range from scathing indictments to rationales for what most agree was “too little, too late.”

Witness to the Holocaust - #326

Witness to the Holocaust is a series of seven short video documentaries put together by the ADL’s Braun Center for Holocaust Studies. These videos focus on the Nazis’ systematic assault on European Jews between 1939 and 1945 -- the incarceration of Jews in ghettos of Eastern Europe, their deportation from the ghettos and countrysides to the concentration camps, and the round-ups and selections for death. They also show exceptionally moving acts of armed and spiritual resistance, as well as liberation of the concentration camps by the Allies.

Witness: Voices from the Holocaust - JHVC

Witness: Voices from the Holocaust presents some of the earliest testimonies of survivors recorded for the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. In addition to survivors, the film weaves the stories of a Jesuit Priest, a Hitler youth, American POWs and liberators, tracing life before during and after the Nazi era. Through their unfiltered first-person narratives, the witnesses chronicle the painful and horrifying events they lived through, for which they say words such as heroism, courage, and morality lost all meaning. Their experiences personalize this terrible moment in history and are a powerful means of conveying the human ramifications of the Holocaust. (86 minutes)

Witnesses to the Holocaust: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann - #246 & JHVC

SS Lieutenant-Colonel Adolf Eichmann is infamous for his crimes against the Jewish people and against humanity. This record of testimony and evidence marks the 27th anniversary of the beginning of his historical trial. Using footage of the trial and eye-witness accounts, this documentary reveals the terrifying scope of Eichmann’s role in the “Final Solution.” It is, in the words of Abba Eban, “a moving experience recommended to all who wish to understand the tragedy and meaning of the Jewish martyrdom in Europe.” (90 minutes)

The World of Anne Frank - #156

Produced by International Anne Frank Center. (30 minutes)

 

The World at War – JHVC DVD #HL 183

The definitive visual history of World War II, featuring newsreel, propaganda, and home movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, with numerous DVD bonus special features. (26 hours; 11 DVDs)

The Writing on the Wall & Related News Story #318

CBS School Break Special based on teen-age anti-semitic graffiti painted on synagogues and homes of Jews in Clifton, New Jersey. This program explores a unique method of dealing with the perpetrators.

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Yehuda Bauer Lectures 1-3 - #263

Dr. Yehuda Bauer, the author of definitive works concerning the Holocaust and historical advisor on both Shoah and Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, brings his exceptional insights to this lecture series. Renowned worldwide for his explosive, controversial views, Dr. Bauer explores anti-semitism in all its guises. From its historical roots through its catastrophic rise in Europe, and its role in the world today, Dr. Bauer discusses historical rationalizations, justifications, and political motivations for this hatred.

You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei) - #327

Focusing on the memories of four American soldiers who participated in the liberation and a woman who served several years of internment, You Are Free combines their stories with archival footage of Holocaust realities to record the horror and human compassion of the time. (20 minutes)

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