The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. It also explores the history of German racism and examines the treatment of Black prisoners-of-war. The film uses interviews with survivors and their families as well as archival material to document the Black German Holocaust experience.
In the small town of Rechnitz a terrible crime against humanity was performed during the holocaust. Until now, no-one dares to talk about it.
Anne Frank's world famous diary came to an abrupt end shortly before she and her family were discovered hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex at the top of Otto Frank's office building, on August 4, 1944. While her diary tells the story of Anne's life, the story of her death reveals the atrocities encountered by millions of Jews during the Holocaust. In a solemn remembrance of the horrors that Anne Frank and these millions of others suffered during the dark days of World War II, National Geographic Channel (NGC) takes viewers inside the concentration camps in a two-hour special. In keeping with NGC's tradition of unparalleled storytelling, Anne Frank's Holocaust incorporates new findings and rarely seen photographs to reintroduce the story of the massacre of Jews in one of the most comprehensive documentaries on the subject to date.
Sonia Reich- who survived the Holocaust as a child by running and hiding, suddenly believes that she is being hunted again, 60 years later.
A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees during WWII at their own risk, and trying to help the son of an Albanian baker that housed a Jewish family for a year return some Hebrew books that the family had to leave behind.
In Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS. He then took refuge in the Great Mosque of Paris. The imam decides to protect him by passing him off as a Muslim, as well as the other Jewish children that he manages to free with the help of the resistance networks. The French militia and the Gestapo have suspicions... This fiction film is based on the true story of the rector of the Paris mosque, Si Kaddour Benghabrit, who saved several Jews from deportation during the Second World War.
A Jewish town is burning. The figures of the dying inhabitants are inscribed in organic sculptures. A male choir sings the 'S’brent, unzer sztetl brent' (Fire, our town is on fire) song by Mordechaj Gebirtig.
Narrated by Stephen Baldwin, Finding Manny shares a powerful theme of optimism and makes "never again" have meaning for the next generation. auschwitzsurvivorholocaustorphanagegenocide8 more. Taglines. 70 years after escaping from a Nazi death train-an empowering story of optimism through the darkest of moments.
A film about a district in Buda, which to this day cannot face the inconceivably cruel crimes committed by its former inhabitants.
Holocaust survivors describe their experiences being interred at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
Writing against oblivion: The film captures the names of the 66000 Austrian victims of the Shoa written by hand on the Prater Hauptallee in Vienna.
The true story of one boy's journey as a victim of Nazi oppression. While exposed to some of the most horrific events of the Holocaust, Misa was able to endure the atrocities of genocide through his love of art and music.
Nyosha is a ten year old girl. She dreams of buying a pair of shoes during the reality of a pitiless war. She believes that because of her shoes, she will stay alive.A range of animation techniques brings together the dream and the reality and tells Nyosha's story.
The moving story of the last generation of Holocaust survivors who travel to Poland with thousands of teenagers from around the world to retrace the Death March from Auschwitz to Birkenau.
Den charmerende levemand Oskar Schindler ankommer til Polen i hælene på den sejrrige tyske hær. Han gør sig hurtigt venner med indflydelsesrige tyske officerer og benytter sine kontakter til at opbygge en succesrig forretning – baseret på tvangsudskrevne jødiske arbejdere. Midt i den brændende krig slår han pludselig øjnene op for alle grusomhederne og – den mindst sandsynlige person af alle – anvender hele sin formue, alle sine kontakter og sætter sit eget liv i fare for at frikøbe sine jødiske arbejdere og dermed redde 1100 menneskeliv fra gaskammeret...
The story is set in Palestine in 1947, during the British mandate period. The Zionists are fighting for the establishment of a Jewish state, and four comrades in arms pressure the young Elisha to overcome his moral qualms and fully commit to the armed struggle.
The only two survivors of the Treblinka concentration camp recount the horrors they experienced and tell how their lives were after escaping during a revolt in 1943.
Knocking opens the door on Jehovah's Witnesses. They are moral conservatives who stay out of politics and the Culture War, but they won a record number of court cases expanding freedom for everyone. They refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds, but they embrace the science behind bloodless surgery. In Nazi Germany, they could fight for Hitler or go to the concentration camps. They chose the camps. Following two families who stand firm for their controversial and misunderstood Christian faith, KNOCKING reveals how one unlikely religion helped to shape history beyond the doorstep.
Guido kører ind i en lille italiensk by i en by med defekte bremser og fortsætter i hæsblæsende tempo. Han svøber den smukke Dora i sin drømmeverden, og sammen får de sønnen Giosué. Men krigen truer. Og den lille familie sendes i koncentrationslejr. Men på fantasien og humorens vinger kan man svæve næsten helt hen til håbet.
Polen, anden verdenskrig. Den jødiske Wladyslaw Szpilman er en talentfuld jødiske pianist, der undgår deportation. I lighed med tusindvis andre jøder bliver han tvunget til at leve under usle forhold i en ghetto midt i Warszawa. Han formår, at stikke af og gemmer sig i storbyens ruiner. En tysk officer yder hjælp til den hårdt plagede Szpilman.