Added: 23rd October 2008 Posted By:shoahstories Views: 94 Comments:0
Survivor Testimony About Treblinka Death Camp in September 1942. One of the few chosen for slave labor in the camp, he personally witnessed the murder of thousands of Jews in the gas chambers of Treblinka. Forced to dispose of the bodies, he witnessed every part of the extermination process in...
Added: 21st May 2008 Posted By:wejew Views: 160 Comments:0
Legendary Jewish actress Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske in New York City, the only child of Natalie (Bacal or Weinstein), a secretary, and William Perske, who worked in sales. Her parents were Jewish immigrants, their families having come from France, Poland, Romania and Germany. Her...
Added: 13th April 2008 Posted By:wejew Views: 307 Comments:0
AMEN Trailer (2002) - Oscar-winner Costa-Gavras' story of a renegade Nazi chemist who took on the Catholic Church. A little background: In 1942 Kurt Gerstein was an SS-Untersturmfuhrer in charge of Heinrich Himmler's Technical Disinfection Department of the Waffen-SS. In June of 1942, Gerstein...
Added: 10th February 2008 Posted By:wejew Views: 142 Comments:0
During the WWII battle of Stalingrad, two snipers, a Russian (Law), and a German (Harris), are locked in a battle of wills and marksmenship, while the Russian is boosted to the status of hero by a political official (Fiennes). In the winter of 1942, the German and Russian Armies meet in the great...
Added: 18th January 2008 Posted By:wejew Views: 220 Comments:0
Warsaw Ghetto 1940-1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in Warsaw, former capital of Poland in the General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. primary materials, footage and photographs shot by the Nazis themselves, and the...