As an early member, and past President of theEl Paso Holocaust Museum, I jumped on the opportunity to join a Poland-Israel trip jointly organized by our Museum and the local synagogues in June of this year. In preparation for my trip I read many books on the history of the Holocaust, ...
Holocaust Survivors Say Hitler Was Their Matchmaker in New DocumentaryMONTREAL (CP) - Adolf Hitler has been called many things - mass murderer, despot, megalomaniac...Wyatt, Nelson
2. Holocaust: An Untold Story (2022) The son of Holocaust survivors embarks on a journey into the unknown, accompanied by helpers from around the world and a Baptist minister. As he delves into his inherited trauma, he begins to untangle himself from its grasp and rebuilds his future with...
The idea of the film was born when I was taking part in founding the Museum of Holocaust in Moscow. Marianna Yarovskaya Director/Producer Marianna Yarovskaya’sUndesirableswon a Student Academy Award in 2001. Since then, she has worked for dozens of programs for Discovery Channel, National ...
Furthermore, the documentary focuses on Akira Kitade, a man who has published a research named “Visas of Life and the Epic Journey — How the Sugihara Survivors Reached Japan,” has traced Osako’s trips, and is currently searching for the people the two Japanese saved, and their ...
Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 and a half hour documentary about the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors,
1998’s Academy Award Best Feature Documentary, THE LAST DAYS, filmed in five countries, traces the compelling experiences of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors who fell victim to Hitler’s brutal war against the Jews during the final days of WWII. Including newly discovered historical footage and ...
, the film included three minutes of what would turn out to be the only known footage of the predominantly Jewish town of Nasielsk, Poland — David Kurtz’s birthplace — one year before the Nazi occupation would destroy the community, leaving fewer than 100 survivors of the Holocaust....
by Eugene Atget (1857-1927), or the photos of Parisian night-life by Brassai (1899-1984), or the River Rouge car plant shots of Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), or the chronicle made by Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) of the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust....
soon marrying and establishing a wholesale candy business. When he had a son and then a daughter, he loved them deeply but also feared for them. As a child, Yossi and his playmates, as offspring in the country’s largest community of Orthodox Jewish Holocaust survivors, were already planning...