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Survivor Mourner's Kaddish - Joe Engel, a Holocaust survivor, tells his story and shares memories that he has never shared before. A shocking and riveting short documentary on a courageous life.
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A powerful Holocaust music video directed by 2-time Emmy award winner Stan Moore. This is a moving mixture of black and white images of the victims along with a modern guitar video. Never Again means at least Never To Forget!
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"Inheritance" - On the eve of his Grandfather's funeral, a young man receives his inheritance. It is not a dowry of riches, but a simple manila envelope containing photographs and a letter. As the young man sifts through the worn and tattered photos he can not believe his eyes. The images are horrific. Dead bodies neatly stacked in rows. Ovens filled with half-burned human corpses. In shock, he slowly sifts past the horrible imagery to the letter, a powerful and impassioned recounting of April 11, 1945, the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. His Grandfather describes the horrors of the camp and the shame he felt for locking these feelings and images away. He tells him that this can never be forgotten, and this is his Inheritance.
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Rare and historic archive film of the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau (Poland) in color - this film contains rarely seen scenes in full color of the living and physical condition of the survivors of these death camps. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED.
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust. Genre: Drama,
Director: Mark Herman, Cast: Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis.
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"A Secret" follows the saga of a Jewish family in post-World War II Paris. Francois, a solitary, imaginative child, invents for himself a brother as well as the story of his parents' past. But on his fifteenth birthday, he discovers a dark family secret that ties his family's history to the Holocaust and shatters his illusions forever. Adapted from Philippe Grimbert's celebrated truth-inspired novel, "Memory". Winner of the Grand Prix of the Americas Prize at the Montreal World Film Festival 2007. Genre: Foreign, Drama - Director: Claude Miller - Cast: Cecile De France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric.
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Legend tells that after the Holocaust, Rav Yosef Kahaneman zt'l, looking for Jewish children who had survived the war. Some of the children had ended up in churches. He was granted permission to enter the children's quarters - when he entered he began calling out "Shema Yisroel" and instinctively many of the children raised their hands to cover their eyes and started calling out "Mama! Mama!"
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OUT OF FAITH, a feature-length documentary (82:00), follows three generations of a family torn apart by conflicts over interfaith marriage. The family's matriarch, Leah Welbel, and her husband Eliezer, both survived nearly three years in Auschwitz; however, in their minds, their grandchildren marrying non-Jews represents a posthumous victory for Hitler. OUT OF FAITH examines these issues by capturing the intimate details of one family's attempt to persevere in the face of a heart wrenching intrafamilial conflict; a conflict that impacts countless families in multicultural societies. Anyone who has ever struggled to remain loyal to a cultural identity in the face of great societal pressure to assimilate will undoubtedly relate.
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Holocaust denial conference
The modern-terror state of Iran hosted a Holocaust denial conference. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough finds out what's going on from The New Republic's Michael Crowley and Deborah Lipstadt, Prof. of Jewish Studies at Emory University.
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Author Kati Marton joins NECN's Chet Curtis to discuss her new book, "The Great Escape." It's the story of nine Jewish men who fled Hitler and changed the world.
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Thousands of Jewish teens and adults from around the world get together every year on the March of the Living and visit the sites of the Nazi death camps where the death marches and exterminations resulting in the loss of six million Jewish souls. Many thousands have taken this life-changing expedition - which often culminates in a visit to the Land of Israel. The truth is - every Jew alive today is a "survivor" of the Holocaust. Never Again!
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This Holocaust memorial statute is in the Miami Beach, Florida Holocaust Museum. The statue is riveting and this photograph of it really brings out the hand grasping for salvation.
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Liberation Shoah Stories - Liberation is typically characterized by the arrival of Allied forces. Interviewees tell of liberation from concentration camps, or during death marches, or may describe liberation upon emergence from hiding. Esther Bem (survivor) talks about her lack of awareness of wartime political events while hiding in Italy. She describes her liberation by members of the Jewish Brigade. Esther speaks of her struggle with identity which ensued after liberation from living in both hiding and under a false name. James Hayes (soldier-liberator) recalls 10 days of fighting Germans until they surrendered. While searching for a place for the American soldiers to stay for the night, he encountered a barrack with prisoners. He describes the horrors of those images as well as his efforts to get medical attention to the survivors.
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This is short video of two Holocaust survivors of the Nazi death camps - what is more remarkable than the actual pain expressed - is the trauma written on every expression on their faces - there were many more victims of the Holocaust that actually survived to live long lives of great pain.
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The horrid Shoah (Holocaust) had many Jewish victims who survived physically - but were traumatized in unimaginable ways. Here are two brief testimonies from "survivors" about having to hide for their lives from the Nazis. The pain and grief of the experience is written on every facial expression and word. (source: USC Shoah Foundation)
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Nazi hunters arrived in Chile's quiet southern town of Puerto Montt on Wednesday, where they hope to track down the man who could be the last Nazi war criminal alive. Aribert Heim, known as Dr. Death, decorated his office during the war with human body parts, even using the skull of a man he decapitated as a paperweight. (source: infolive.tv)
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