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- An american journalist Ruth who travels to Poland with her father Edek to visit his childhood places. But Edek, a Holocaust survivor, resists reliving his trauma and sabotages the trip creating unintentionally funny situations.
- A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
- A Jewish family in Berlin family must flee the Nazis. First, they go to Zürich. From there they go to Paris, and finally to London.
- Kitty, the imaginary girl who Anne Frank wrote to in her 1940s diary during WWII, seeks out the deceased diarist while also inspiring a wave of modern social justice for refugees.
- A captivating film examines Adolf Eichmann's trial, capturing the empathy and humanism amidst the atrocities committed during WWII.
- The last of the great partisans, who located Hitler's "wonder weapon", returns to the war that took away his feelings and identity, but failed to rob him of his values as a human being.
- 12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Within a few hours, everything changes.
- "All I can say is that I saw it, and it is the truth." In a virtuoso solo performance, Academy Award nominee David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck, Lincoln, Nomadland) portrays Jan Karski in this genre-defying true story of a reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness. After surviving the devastation of the Blitzkrieg, Karski swears allegiance to the Polish Underground and risks his life to carry the first eyewitness reports of war-torn Poland to the Western world, and ultimately, the Oval Office. Escaping a Gestapo prison, bearing witness to the despair of the Warsaw ghetto and confronted by the inhumanity of a death camp, Karski endures unspeakable mental anguish and physical torture to stand tall in the halls of power and speak the truth. Strathairn captures the complexity and legacy of this self-described "insignificant, little man" whose timely story of moral courage and individual responsibility can still shake the conscience of the world.
- The tragic love story of Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
- 70 years after a body is found floating in a Sydney river, middle aged Jewish doctor Jack learns his father, a Holocaust survivor, is responsible for the unsolved murder of an alleged Nazi and sets out on a quest to find the truth.
- The official U.S. government film about the 1st Nuremberg trial (The Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals) which lasted from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946.
- Martin Goldsmith never knew what happened to his parents before they escaped from Germany in 1941. Over a weekend, he confronts his father and we are brought back to the complex and confusing 1930s when the parents were young musicians.
- The first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz consisted of 999 Slovak girls and young women. This documentary features several survivors from that transport.
- Ella is not your average 98-year-old. Her magnetic personality makes her past even more surprising. Follow this spirited South African Holocaust survivor as she reveals her astonishing life journey and unwavering appreciation of life.
- Feature documentary that illuminates the journey of an unsung artist, Jack Garfein - Holocaust camp survivor, Actors Studio co-founder and teacher, celebrated Broadway director and controversial filmmaker - revealing how art can engage our collective memory to better illuminate our present.
- A documentary about the life and work of Hannah Arendt, the prolific and unclassifiable thinker, political theorist, moral philosopher and polemicist, and with her encounter with the trial of Eichmann a high-ranking Nazi.
- Difficult and flamboyant, Roman Vishniac captured iconic images of Jewish life, from the cafes of pre-war Berlin to the shtetls of Eastern Europe. But it would be up to his daughter to preserve his legacy.
- A cave exploration in Ukraine leads to the unearthing of a story of World War II survivors who once found shelter in the same cave.
- The untold story of the life and perils of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, in six chapters. The past and the present of a city, meet and converge at its cracks.
- Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing, photographs, posters, and more, the Oyneg Shabes Archive is the most important cache of in-the-moment, eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust. It documents not only how the Jews of the ghetto died, but how they lived. The film is based on the book of the same name by historian Samuel Kassow.
- Ka-Tzetnik, the mysterious writer, was embraced by millions of readers around the world when he named Auschwitz, "The Other Planet". But when an experimental LSD treatment brings new understandings with it, the writer's new message was overlooked.
- A documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS-leader Heinrich Himmler.
- On the night of January 31, 1945, in the town of Palmnicken in East Prussia (now the settlement of Yantarny, Kaliningrad Region, Russia), Nazis shot on the seashore about 3,000 prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp, mostly women and teenage girls. Before that, approximately 2,000 prisoners were killed on the march from Konigsberg to Palmnicken. The advancing Soviet troops reached the execution site just one day after the execution. The main character of the film is Martin Bergau, a former resident of Palmnicken. In February 1945, he was 16 years old. He was a member of the Hitler Youth. Along with other boys of the 8/43 troop, he was involved in the execution - he "regulated the shooting line". Throughout his life the story of the Palmnicken Massacre haunted him. In 1994, his book "The Boy from the Yantarny Coast" was released. Therein he describes the shooting on the seaside. Gunter Nitsch, an American writer of German descent, who now resides in Chicago, describes how the soldiers of the Red Army, who entered Palmnicken on April 15, 1945, stumbled upon the mass grave of the executed prisoners. During the war, he ended up in Palmnicken with his family. Nitsch's grandfather was one of the people who in winter, on instruction of the Soviet liberators, dug out the remains of the Jews with his bare hands. Before his death, he remarked: "I didn't think Germans were capable of such a thing." Criminal prosecution that was initiated in 1958 by the Prosecutor's Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as Soviet investigation materials, also tell of the Palmnicken Massacre. In 1965, former SS Obershareführer Fritz Weber was detained in the city of Kiel. He commanded a column of prisoners that were shot on the way to Palmnicken and along the Palmnicken beach. Instead of waiting for his trial, Weber committed suicide in his jail cell. There was no trial for him. Bergau, a participant and witness of this tragedy, tells us of the house where he lived and the school where he studied. It was the same school where, in 1938, he was solemnly accepted into the Jungvolk, the younger group of the Hitler Youth. Memories of childish pranks and school games are mixed with the terrible details of the events of the 1945 winter: he tells of a woman who was killed by guards right on the doorstep of his house, of the "hunt for escaped Jews" that was announced by the local burgomaster, and about younger self who lined up the captured Jews to be shot in the yard of the Palmnicken amber factory. Is Martin destined to find peace of mind at least at the end of the life that had begun so tragically? Nowadays "March of Life" is organized by the Kaliningrad Jewish community at the end of January in memory of the tragic events. Gunter Nitsch and Simcha Koplowicz, a descendant of the surviving prisoner Sheva Koplowicz, meet at the March. Together they walk this long way towards the seashore.
- The untold story of a Jewish baby who was born in the death camp before the liberation and survived. An extraordinary journey of the second and third generation, breaking the cycle of trauma to free themselves from Auschwitz - forever.
- Family secrets, lies, high drama and generations of contemporary history unspool in this international story that begins with World War II and concludes with an emotional 21st-century family reunion. Izak was born inside the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in 1945 and sent for adoption in Israel. Secret details of his birth mother, an unknown brother in Canada and his father's true identity slowly emerge in this extremely personal investigative film. Timely questions of identity, resilience, compassion and the plight of displaced persons are brought to life as Izak and Shep, the almost 70-year-old brothers, finally meet in Canada, then head to a nursing home in Quebec to introduce Shep to his elderly mother, Aida, for the first time.