Videos on Global Conditions

Assassinat d'une modiste 2009

"Between her date of birth, on the 2nd of July 1901, and her deportation to Auschwitz, on the 18th of July 1943, in a wagon train leaving from Drancy, Odette Bernstein's life left few traces, except those found in the administrative archives. This young and independent woman, from a well-off family of Neuilly-sur-Seine, was the filmmaker's great aunt. Before World War II, she created her own hatmaking business, and changed name at the same time, becoming Fanny Berger. She set up [a shop on] rue Balzac, near the Champs Elysées. German occupation didn't stop immediately her booming business, but anti-Jewish laws from Vichy government would quickly get hold of it. The noose tightened around her: contacts with her clients were forbidden as well as the opening of a bank account, obligation to get her name registered and to hold the yellow star ... until Fanny Berger tried to escape to reach the free zone, got caught and was interned in Drancy camp. In the meantime, French administration managed to make 'Aryan' most Jewish firms, and Fanny Berger's hatmaking business was sold, supervised by a temporary administrator. In 1942, Fanny Berger found herself with no home, no business and no rights."--Dissidenz International. 1 videodisc (83 min.)

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Belzec 2010

Guillaume Moscovitz,  Jean Bigot, Menemsha Films, and VLR Productions (Firm)

The horrifically efficient Nazi death camp, Belzec, was in operation for less than one year, but witnessed the murder of at least 600,000 Jews. Once the Soviet counterattacks began, the S.S. eliminated all traces of the camp, and the name Belzec faded from the collective conscience. Conceived of by executive producer Claude Lanzman as the last chapter to his epic Shoah, helmer Guillaume Moscovitz has created a chilling account that's as much about remembrance as it is about the past. 1 videodisc (100 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2437

 

Conspiracy 2002, 2001

Frank R Pierson, Nicholas Gillott, Loring Mandel, Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth, Jonathan Coy, Brendan Coyle, Ben Daniels, Barnaby Kay, Kevin McNally, Ian McNeice, Brian Pettifer , Ewan Stewart, Peter Sullivan, Owen Teale, David Threlfall, and Nicholas Woodeson

On January 20, 1942, 15 German officials attended a conference at Wannsee - on the outskirts of Berlin. The meeting comprised of mid-ranking SS commanders and a variety of government ministers. The meeting was organized by SS Major Adolf Eichmann under the direction of Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich. It was a polite conference, but under this thin veneer of manners lay an evil intent. By the end of the meeting, the fate of six million lives would be decided and the shape of the world would be altered forever. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-103

 

Daleka Cestaa Distant journey 2005, 1950

Alfred Radok, Erik Kolaar, Mojmir Drvota, Blanka Waleska, Otomar Krejeca, Viktor Ocasek, Zdeenka Baldovaa, Naarodnai filmovay archaiv, Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Ill.), and Facets Video (Firm)

One of the first theatrical films about the Holocaust, banned for decades in the Czech Republic and then rediscovered, follows the struggles of Dr. Hannah Kaufman and her family from the time of the Nazi Occupation of Prague through her experiences in the transit camp of Theresienstadt (modern Terezin). 1 videodisc (98 min.)

MEDIA 10-1505

 

A film unfinished 2011

Yael Hersonski, Itay Ken Tor, Noemi Schory , Rona Kenan, Annette Insdorf, Michael Berenbaum, Adrian Wood, Billy Wilder, Itai Neeman, Yishai Adar, Belfilms (Firm), Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Südwestfunk (Baden-Baden, Germany), Yes Doco (Television channel : Israel), Arte (Firm), and Oscilloscope Laboratories (Firm)

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film in an East German archive was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May of 1942, the film became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. The later discovery of a long-missing reel, including multiple takes and cameramen staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage. Presented is the raw footage in its entirety, falsely showing the 'good life' of Jewish urbanites. Included is an interview, and more. Death Mills: "Directed by...Billy Wilder for the U.S. War Department in 1945, [this film] was originally intended for screening in occupied Germany and Austria and featured a German language soundtrack...[T]he first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder." -- Onscreen menu. 1 videodisc (90 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2439

 

Fragments of Isabella 1994

Isabella Leitner, Gabrielle Reidy, Ronan O'Leary, Michael Scott, and Filmakers Library, inc

The true story of a young Hungarian Jew's struggle to survive at Auschwitz and her escape during the death march to Bergen Belsen. 1 videodisc (73 min.)

MEDIA 10-1275

 

The labyrinth the testimony of Marian Kolodziej = Labirynt :  swiadectwo Mariana Kolodzieja 2011

Jason A Schmidt, Ron Schmidt, Marian Kolodziej, Roman S Czarny, December 2nd Productions (Firm), and Loyola Productions Munich

Memory, art, love, and hell collide as an Auschwitz survivor finally confronts the horrors of his past after 50 years of silence.  Marian Kolodziej was on one of the first transports to enter Auschwitz. He was given number 432. He survived and never spoke of his experience for 50 years. After a serious stroke in 1993, he began rehabilitation by doing pen and ink drawings depicting the experiences he and others endured in the concentration camp. These drawings, in their skeletal detail, are a gripping depiction of the pain, death, and horrors of the camp. While most of the drawings represent the memories of a young man's hellish experiences in Auschwitz, some tell stories of small acts of kindness and dignity.  Marian's story of survival, of persistence, of life before, during, and after Auschwitz are a testament to the human spirit. Marian's drawings and art installations, which he called The Labyrinth, fill the large basement of a church near Auschwitz and draw visitors into the horrific reality of the Holocaust.  In 'The labyrinth', Marian takes the audience on a journey through his drawings and art installations. Through the blending of his testimony and the graphic drawings, we explore the memories and nightmares of a man, who like so many others buried experiences deep within. Why would a confrontation with death late in life, trigger the need to record his long-suppressed memories? And why in this graphic, metaphorical way? This documentary raises these questions in a visually stunning way. 1 videodisc (37 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3472

 

The last days c2003

Traces the experiences of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors who fell victim to Hitler's brutal war against the Jews during the final days of World War II, and later returned from the United States to their hometowns and ghettos and the concentration camps in which they were imprisoned. 1 videodisc (87 min.)

MEDIA 10-4309

 

The last survivor 2012?

A documentary that explores the idea of genocide in the 21st century.  Following the lives of survivors of four different genocides (The Holocaust, Rwanda, Darfur, and Congo), the film presents the stories of survivors and their struggle to make sense of tragedy by working to educate, motivate and inspire a civic response to mass atrocity crimes. 1 videodisc (84 min.)

MEDIA 10-4690

 

Night and fog c2003

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Filmed in 1955 at Auschwitz, combines color footage with black and white newsreels and stills to tell the story of not just the Holocaust, but the horror of man's brutal inhumanity. 1 videodisc (31 min.)

MEDIA 10-2185

 

Nuremberg les Nazis face ą leurs crimes c2006

Christian Delage, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus, Christopher Plummer, Benjamin B Ferencz, Ernest W Michel, Budd Schulberg, Richard W Sonnenfeldt, Compagnie des Phares et Balises, ARTE France, United States, Office of Strategic Services, TSentral naia studiia dokumental nykh fil mov (Moscow, Russia), United States, Army, Signal Corps, and Imavision (Firm)

"Nuremberg, November 20, 1945--The trials of Nazi war criminals begins in a city still in ruins, barely six months after the Germans' surrender. The United States, France, Great Britain and the USSR unite to deliver exemplary justice in response to crimes against peace and, for the first time in history, to "crimes against humanity". On the accused bench sit 21 of the highest Nazi dignitaries, including Hermann Göring, Rudolph Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel. They all plead not guilty, although the "atrocities" committed are tremendous. As evidence, films of the liberation of the concentration camps would be screened, an unprecedented move, during the proceedings. Evidence is presented, confrontations arise, testimonies of executioners and victims are heard. After 10 months of hearings, the verdict is rendered: 12 defendants sentenced to death penalties, including one in absentia, seven sentenced to prison and three acquitted. Thus ends the trial that paved the way for the creation of international tribunals."--Container. 2 videodiscs (90 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2933

 

The pawnbroker c2003, 1964

Ely Landau, Herbert R Steinmann, Roger Lewis, Philip Langner, Sidney Lumet, Rod Steiger, Brock Peters, Jaime Saanchez, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Edward Lewis Wallant, Republic Pictures Corporation, Republic Entertainment Inc, and Artisan Home Entertainment (Firm)

A long time ago, Sol Nazerman was a professor.  He had a wife, children.  Then the Germans came.  Sol survived the concentration camp, his family did not.  Now, as the pawnbroker in a shop owned by a racketeer, he grows increasingly bitter and callous, withdrawing still further from the world around him.  His eager assistant Jesus looks to him as both a teacher and a father figure, but Sol eschews involvement or compassion.  This detachment leads to a tragedy, which awakens Sol's humanity, wherein he can finally acknowledge his burden of grief and guilt. 1 videodisc (111 min.)

MEDIA 10-1652

 

Primo Levi's journey c2008

Davide Ferrario, Marco Belpoliti, Chris Cooper, Rossofuoco (Firm), RAI Cinema (Firm), Italy, Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali, European Union, Media Programme, Cinema Guild, and New Yorker Video (Firm)

Follows the writer Primo Levi on his thousand-mile journey to his home in Turin, Italy after being liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-1978

 

Schindler's list 1994

Steven Spielberg, Steven Zaillian, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, John Williams, and Thomas Keneally

The true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer & war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. 2 videocassettes (197 min.)

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Sophie's choice 1999

William Styron, Meryl Streep, Peter MacNicol, Kevin Kline, Alan J Pakula, Keith Barish, ITC Entertainment Group, LIVE Entertainment (Firm), and Artisan Home Entertainment (Firm)

A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbor. 1 videodisc (150 min.)

MEDIA 10-549

 

The Soviet story a documentary film 2008

Edvins Snore, Jon Strickland, and Perry Street Advisors (Firm)

"This is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe's most murderous regime has never been told. Until now"--Container. 2 videodiscs (105 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2329

 

Stalags 2013?

1 videodisc (63 min.)

MEDIA 10-4247

 

Strafsache 4 Ks 2/63 Auschwitz vor dem Frankfurter Schwurgericht 2007, c1993

Rolf Bickel, Dietrich Wagner, Edgar M Boehlke, Hessischer Rundfunk, and First-Run Features (Firm)

On December 20, 1963, the Frankfurt Court of Assizes began a historic trial.  On August 20, 1965, after years of investigation, the 20 months of proceedings concluded with a verdict in one of the most significant trials in German legal history.  In the dock were 22 members of the Waffen-SS, who were staff members at Auschwitz.  360 witnesses, including 211 survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 54 former members of the SS garrison of the camp, 34 other former SS or police officers and 61 other persons testified.  Members of the court even visited Auschwitz-Birkenau--an extraordinary event--as Poland and Germany had no official relationship at the time.  This trial brought the German people to grips with the collective amnesia German society had affected in the postwar period.  The facts of individual involvement in crimes at Auschwitz-Birkenau were revealed, and individual responsibility for the mass murder of millions assigned.  The documentary explores the investigation, the courtroom drama, and the verdict. 1 videodisc (176 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2931

 

Sugihara conspiracy of kindness c2005

This documentary tells the story of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, consul to Lithuania during World War II. Sugihara defied Tokyo authorities and wrote transit visas that allowed hundreds of Jewish families to flee Europe through Russia to Japan and other countries. Includes home movies, photographs, film footage, and interviews with Holocaust survivors who owe their lives to Chiune Sugihara. 1 videodisc (86 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3818

 

Teenage witness the Fanya Gottesfeld Heller story 2010

"Holocaust survivor Fanya Gottesfeld Heller tells her story to inner-city high school students, who visibly connect with her tale of hunger, suffering, and broken home life.  historic footage and interviews with Michael Berenbaum and other Holocaust scholars provide context as Fanya tells what it was like to be 16 and responsible for keeping her family alive." --Container. 1 videodisc (66 min.)

MEDIA 10-3896

1933 Master race 1998

David Espar, Peter Pagnamenta, Zvi Dor-Ner , Alfre Woodard, and Jonathan Lewis

With a unique blend of nationalism, militarism, and racial theory, Adolf Hitler taught the German people to believe that they were the "master race". Stirred by the Fuhrer's rousing rhetoric during mass rallies, millions were swept along with the promise of national socialism. In this film Germans talk candidly about the initial allure of Nazism and German Jews recall their persecution and internment in concentration camps as Hitler's master race pursued its destiny--and descended to the greatest depths of barbarism. 1 videocassette (56 min)

MEDIA 2-5625, 2-3847, 2-4167a

 

Alle Juden raus! = All Jews out! 1990

Emanuel Rund

History of the Jewish community in Copenhagen. 1 videocassette (82 min.)

MEDIA 2-3202

 

America and the Holocaust deceit and indifference 1994

Martin Ostrow, Hal Linden, and David G McCullough

Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust and asks the question "Why didn't America do more?"  Looks at America's inaction through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government. 1 videocassette (87 min.)

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American radical the trials of Norman Finkelstein 2009

David Ridgen, Nicholas Rossier, Baraka Productions, Ridgen Film, Mohawk Films, and Typecast Films (Firm)

A definitive documentary about American academic Norman Finkelstein, a devoted son of holocaust survivors, ardent critic of U.S. and Israeli Mid-East policy, and author of five provocative books, including The Holocaust Industry. Finkelstein has been steadfastly at the center of many intractable controversies, including the recent denial of his tenure at DePaul University. He's called a lunatic and a self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational street-fighting revolutionary by others. 1 videodisc (89 min.)

DANA 463

 

André's lives 1998

André Steiner and  Brad Lichtenstein

"Dubbed 'the Jewish Schindler,' Bauhaus trained architect Andre Steiner saved thousands of Slovak Jews.  The last surviving member of the secret and illegal Jewish 'Working Group' in Slovakia, Andre helped save over 7000 from deportation (almost six times as many as Schindler).  His complex rescue effort involved bribing Nazi and Slovak officials in order to build labor camps to keep Jews employed and safe from deportation"--Container. 1 videocassette (54 min.)

MEDIA 2-5115

 

Anne Frank remembered 1996

Jon Blair, Kenneth Branagh, and Glenn Close

This film includes interviews with Anne Frank's surviving family, friends and her heroic protector, Miep Gies and features vintage newsreels, photographs and even a rare home movie to look beyond the celebrated pages of Anne's diary. 1 videocassette (ca. 117 min.)

DANA 921

 

Anne Frank the missing chapter 1998

David Hammelburg, Bruce Mundt, J. B Macrander, Maarten Kuit, Bernard Hammelburg, and Melissa Müller

A film about the life and diary of Anne Frank. Includes archival photographs and film footage, and interviews with friends of Anne Frank and her family. 1 videocassette (45 min.)

DANA 1507

 

Art and remembrance the legacy of Felix Nussbaum 1993

Barbara Pfeffer, Paul Sparer, Emily Bilske , Peter Junk, and Wendelin Zimmer

Tells the story of Felix Nussbaum, the German-Jewish artist who, during four years of hiding in Brussels, created a major body of paintings about European Jews during the Holocaust. One month before the liberation of Brussels, he was turned in to the Gestapo, sent on the last transport to Auschwitz and murdered.  The film also examines how a group of young Germans today feel about their nation's past after devoting themselves to bringing Nussbaum's work to the world's attention. 1 videocassette (29 min.)

DANA 1208

 

Back to Gombin 2001

Minna Packer

Children of survivors of genocide are interviewed as they  journey to Poland to recreate a lost lineage and find their own lives in the midst of history. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA 2-6123

 

Border Street 1985

Ludwik Starski, Jean Force, M Cwinklinska, J Leszcynski, W Godik, Alexander Ford, Film Polski, and International Historic Films Inc

The lives of several families from different social classes in a neighborhood of pre-war Warsaw are changed by tragic events of a period. 1 videocassette (110 min.)

MEDIA 2-6454

 

Breaking the silence the generation after the Holocaust 1984

Edward Allen Mason, Eva Fogelman, Henry Grunebaum, and Edie Wieder

Documents a group discussion in which young adults share their common experience of having parents who survived the Nazi Holocaust. Also shows emotional family discussions leading to improved relationships between generations. 1 videocassette (59 min.)

MEDIA 2-1998

 

Brenda Senders a partisan's story 1991

Brenda Senders, Bernard Penny, and Chris Lloyd

Following an introduction about the stages and causes of the Holocaust, Brenda Senders describes the course of the Holocaust in her little town in the Ukraine to a B nai B rith youth group. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-1817

 

The children of Chabannes c1999

Lisa Gossels, Dean Wetherel, Perennial Pictures, Inc, and D.G. Wetherell and Associates Ltd

A tale of courage, resilence and love set during WWII, "The Children of Chabannes" tells the story of how the people of Chabannes, a tiny village in unoccupied France, chose action over indifference and saved the lives of 400 Jewish refugee children ... but this oasis of hope is shattered in August of 1942, when the war reaches the doorsteps of the chateau where the children lived. 1 videocassette (92 min.)

MEDIA 2-6706

 

Conspiracy 2002, 2001

Frank R Pierson, Nicholas Gillott, Loring Mandel, Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth, Jonathan Coy, Brendan Coyle, Ben Daniels, Barnaby Kay, Kevin McNally, Ian McNeice, Brian Pettifer , Ewan Stewart, Peter Sullivan, Owen Teale, David Threlfall, and Nicholas Woodeson

On January 20, 1942, 15 German officials attended a conference at Wannsee - on the outskirts of Berlin. The meeting comprised of mid-ranking SS commanders and a variety of government ministers. The meeting was organized by SS Major Adolf Eichmann under the direction of Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich. It was a polite conference, but under this thin veneer of manners lay an evil intent. By the end of the meeting, the fate of six million lives would be decided and the shape of the world would be altered forever. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-103

 

The courage to care 1986

Robert Gardner, Patrick Prentice, and Elie Wiesel

Describes those individuals who knowingly risked their lives during the Holocaust to aid Jews. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-4151

 

Daleka Cestaa Distant journey 2005, 1950

Alfred Radok, Erik Kolaar, Mojmir Drvota, Blanka Waleska, Otomar Krejeca, Viktor Ocasek, Zdeenka Baldovaa, Naarodnai filmovay archaiv, Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Ill.), and Facets Video (Firm)

One of the first theatrical films about the Holocaust, banned for decades in the Czech Republic and then rediscovered, follows the struggles of Dr. Hannah Kaufman and her family from the time of the Nazi Occupation of Prague through her experiences in the transit camp of Theresienstadt (modern Terezin). 1 videodisc (98 min.)

MEDIA 10-1505

 

The Danish solution c2003

Karen Cantor, Camilia Kjćrulff, Garrison Keillor, Singing Wolf Documentaries, Inc, and Filmakers Library, inc

When the Final Solutions was attempted in Denmark the plan was averted and over 95 percent of the country's Jewish population survived the war. Examines how and why the Jews escaped the Nazi's blueprint for their extermination. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-6894

 

David 1987

Peter Lilienthal, Joachim von Vietinghoff, Ezra BenGershôm, Valter Taub, Irena Vrkljan, Eva Mattes, and Mario Fischel

David is a young Jewish teenager who is caught up in the Nazi regime's persecution. He survives as victim and witness in this poetic but brutal drama filmed in Germany. 1 videocassette (106 min.)

MEDIA 2-2096

 

The final solution. vol. 2, Repression and resettlement, 1939-1941 1993

Michael Darlow, Eric Porter, Thames Television, ltd, and HBO Video (Firm)

This video traces the Nazis' escalating hostility toward the Jews--from the forced wearing of yellow stars and confinement in grossly overcrowded ghettos, to the implementation of his plan to systematically destroy the Jewish peoples of Europe under the cover of war. 1 videocassette (ca. 52 min.)

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The final solution. Vol. 3, The last journey, 1941-1942 1993

Michael Darlow, Eric Porter, Thames Television, ltd, and HBO Video (Firm)

This video shows how existing concentration camps were refitted with gas chambers and crematoriums and converted into extermination centers.  Jews throughout occupied Europe were rounded up by the thousands, loaded into cattle cars, and transported to their deaths. 1 videocassette (ca. 52 min.)

   DANA 1966

 

For the living 1993

Edward Asner, Jeff Bieber, and Michael Olmert

Chronicles the creation, building and design of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. 1 videocassette (57 min.)

MEDIA    DANA 2-4172       1020

 

Fragments of Isabella 1994

Isabella Leitner, Gabrielle Reidy, Ronan O'Leary, Michael Scott, and Filmakers Library, inc

The true story of a young Hungarian Jew's struggle to survive at Auschwitz and her escape during the death march to Bergen Belsen. 1 videodisc (73 min.)

MEDIA 10-1275

 

Genocide 1981

Martin Gilbert, Marvin Hier, Arnold Schwartzman, Elizabeth Taylor, and Orson Welles

"Genocide" combines historical narrative with actual stories of ordinary people caught up in the Nazis' reign of terror.  Its purpose is to challenge and inspire so that never again will man stand by silently and allow such an atrocity to occur. 1 videocassette (83 min.)

MEDIA 2-1790

 

Good evening Mr. Wallenberg 1994, 1990

Kjell Grede, Stellan Skarsgĺrd, Katharina Thalbach, Karoly Eperjes, and Katinka Farago

Raoul Wallenberg moved from Sweden to Budapest in late 1944 to help protect Jews from Adolph Eichmann's Sonderkommando. 1 videocassette (115 min.)

MEDIA 2-2446

 

ha-Kayits shel Aviyah The summer of Aviya 1996

Gila Almagor, Haim Bouzaglo, Eitan Evan, Eli Cohen, Kaipo Cohen, Avital Dicker, Marina Rossetti, Dina Avrech, and Sandra Sade

Presents Gila Almagor's autobiographical film, based on her book, about a Holocaust survivor who immigrates with her daughter to the newly founded Israeli state. Aviya is a spunky 10 old year girl who, like her mother, is a survivor in the face of persecution. 1 videocassette (ca. 96 min.)

MEDIA 2-5464

 

Hiding and seeking faith and tolerance after the Holocaust c2004

Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky, Independent Television Service, and First Run/Icarus Films

In this compelling documentary a father takes his grown-up Orthodox Jewish sons to Poland to teach them about the perils of putting up walls to keep those they deem dangerous outside. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-6897

 

The Holocaust in memory of millions 1994

Walter Cronkite and Randy Goldman

From the halls of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Walter Cronkite chronicles the entire story of the Holocaust. 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) ;

DANA 1808

 

Kapo c1996

Gillo Pontecorvo, Moris Ergas, Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanučle Riva, Vides Cinematográfica, Zebra Cineriz, Francinex (Firm), and Nostalgia Family Video (Firm)

The story of a Jewish girl from Paris sent to a concentration camp during World War II. In the camp the girl is befriended by a kindly doctor, who helps her hide her true identity and work as a camp guard, or "kapo." Unfortunately, her new found power goes to her head, and her abuse of that power is very nearly on the same level as the Nazis. 1 videocassette (87 min.)

MEDIA 2-7305

 

Korczak 1993

Andrzej Wajda, Regina Ziegler, Daniel Morgenstern, Daniel Toscan Du Plantier, Agnieszka Holland,  Wojciech Pszoniak, and Ewa Dalkowska

Tells the true story of Janusz Korczak, a renowned physician and author who ran a home for Jewish orphans in 1930's Warsaw. 1 videocassette (118 min.)

MEDIA 2-6122

 

Kovno ghetto a buried history 1997

Martin Gilbert, Herbert Krosney, and Panass Kessem

Prior to World War II, 35,000 Jews lived in Kovno, Lithuania but few escaped the Holocaust.  Despite great suffering and personal risk they recorded their fate in thousands of photographes and documents.  This documentary pieces together the harrowing stories of survival and loss through survivor interviews, photographes, and artifacts. 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.)

DANA 1167

 

The last days 1999

Steven Spielberg, James Moll, Ken Lipper, and June Beallor

Traces the experiences of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors who fell victim to Hitler's brutal war against the Jews during the final days of World War II, and returned to their hometowns and ghettos and the concentration camps in which they were imprisoned. 1 videocassette (ca. 87 min.)

DANA 1807

 

Leon Senders's war  199-?

Leon Senders, Edith U Fierst, and J. Phillip Dixon

The film shows Leon Senders addressing an adult group at the Washington Hebrew Congregation.  Born Lazar Sendarovich in Vilna Lithuania, then a part of Poland, he fled to the forests following the Nazi invasion.  His family stayed behind and died in Polnar.  He was trained in guerrilla warfare in Moscow and spent the war as a partisan radio operator, often miles behind enemy lines, including several months in Konigsberg. 1 videocassette (23 min.)

MEDIA 2-1816

 

Liberators fighting on two fronts in World War II 1992

Denzel Washington, Louis Gossett, William Miles, Nina Rosenblum, and Daniel V Allentuck

The experiences of African-American soldiers during World War II reflected the racial climate of 1940s America, a society marked by strict segregation and frequent acts of violence. Black combat battalions existed but were only used toward the end of the war, when manpower grew short in Europe. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 280 2-2106

 

Marion Wolff a young girl in Hitler's Berlin 1989

Marion Freyer Wolff,  Melanie Guste, and Angela Marney

Following an introduction describing the stages and causes of the Holocaust, Marion Wolff addresses a class at Langley High School.  She describes the increasing restrictions against the Jews of Berlin from 1933 to 1938, when she was a school child, the indifference of the world during the Evian Conference, the horror of Kristallnacht, and the growing number of arrests, disappearances and murders after Kristallnacht. 1 videocassette (35 min.)

MEDIA 2-1815

 

Memory of the camps 1995, 1999?

Sergei Nolbandov, Stewart McAllister, Peter Tanner, Colin Wills, and Trevor Howard

Filmed in 1945 by British and American Allied troops, this archival moving image material documents the conditions of several Nazi concentration camps at the time of liberation by the Allies. Includes scenes of captured SS, gas chambers, crematoria, corpses and starving prisoners in several camps (Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Ebensee, Mauthausen, Ludwigslust, Ohrdruf, Leipzig, Gardelegen, Auschwitz). 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-4174

 

Nesse Godin remembers 199-?

Nesse Godin

Nesse Godin describes how World War II came to her home town of Shaulai, Lithuania, and her experiences in forced labor and concentration camps. 1 videocassette (ca. 32 min)

MEDIA 2-1818

 

Nuit et brouillard Night and fog 1990?

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edouard Muszka, Alain Resnais, Henri Michel, and Olga Wormser-Migot

Nuit et brouillard based on the book Tragédie de la déportation by Olga Wormser and Henri Michel; documentary showing inside Hitler's concentration camps. Le retour: an understated account of the liberation of French prisoners from Nazi concentration camps. Shows the removal of the prisoners to temporary hospitals and pictures joyful reunions with families and friends in Paris. 1 videocassette (65 min.)

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One of us 1999

Susan Korda, One of Us Productions, and Filmakers Library, inc

"The filmmaker comes from a troubled Viennese Jewish family which was dislocated by the Nazis.  While in Berlin to make a documentary on what was called 'the new German identity', she becomes obsessed with Germany's cruelty"--Container. 1 videocassette (48 min.)

MEDIA 2-6415

 

One out of ten 1998

Agnes Vertes and Todd Feuer

People who survived Nazi concentration camps as children discuss their experiences. 1 videocassette (42 min.)

DANA 1297

 

Ostatni etap 1998

Wanda Jakubowska, Gerda Schneider, Wanda Bartówna, Huguette Faget, Tatjana Górecka, Antonia Górecka, Maria Winogradowa, and Barbara Drapi nska

Daily life (and death) of the women prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, based on actual events experienced by Wanda Jakubowska, the film's director. 1 videocassette (110 min.)

MEDIA 2-5215

 

Our time in the garden 199-?

Ron Blau, Susan Woll, and Gerda Blau

"Follows the true life story of a young Jewish woman growing up in Berlin whose secure homelife is disrupted by Hitler's rise to powe and her family's subsequent decision to leave Germany.  This story is told through the use of home movies, special effects photography, and sound tracks."--All-Movie Guide (http:/allmovie.com/cgi-win/avg.exe). 1 videocassette (15 min.)

MEDIA 2-3200

 

Partisans of Vilna 1986

Josh Waletzky

Feature-length documentary film that explores Jewish resistance during World War II.  Recounts the untold tale of the moral dilemmas facing the Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance in the Vilna ghetto, and fought as partisans in the woods against the Nazis. 1 videocassette (130 min.)

MEDIA 2-846

 

The pawnbroker c2003, 1964

Ely Landau, Herbert R Steinmann, Roger Lewis, Philip Langner, Sidney Lumet, Rod Steiger, Brock Peters, Jaime Saanchez, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Edward Lewis Wallant, Republic Pictures Corporation, Republic Entertainment Inc, and Artisan Home Entertainment (Firm)

A long time ago, Sol Nazerman was a professor.  He had a wife, children.  Then the Germans came.  Sol survived the concentration camp, his family did not.  Now, as the pawnbroker in a shop owned by a racketeer, he grows increasingly bitter and callous, withdrawing still further from the world around him.  His eager assistant Jesus looks to him as both a teacher and a father figure, but Sol eschews involvement or compassion.  This detachment leads to a tragedy, which awakens Sol's humanity, wherein he can finally acknowledge his burden of grief and guilt. 1 videodisc (111 min.)

MEDIA 10-1652

 

Perils of indifference lessons learned from a violent century 1999

Elie Wiesel, Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mark Ganguzza, and Andrea Davis

Elie Wiesel speaks on violence in the 20th century and  the peril of societal indifference, relating the ethnic violence in the past, today and in the future. 1 videocassette (113 min.)

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The pianist c2003

Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde, Ronald Harwood, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard, Julia Rayner, Jessica Kate Meyer, Pawel Edelman, Wojciech Kilar, Wladyslaw Szpilman, R.P. Productions, Heritage Films (Firm), Studio Babelsberg, Runteam Ltd, Studio Canal+, and Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis. 1 videodisc (149 min.)

DANA 315

 

Playing for time 1984

Daniel Mann and Arthur Miller

Inside the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two, members of a bizarre prison orchestra struggle against all odds to spare themselves from death.  In the process of performing music for their Nazi captors, they reaffirm the indomitable human spirit and the willingness to survive. 1 videocassette (VHS) (148 min.)

MEDIA 2-227

 

Ports of destiny 1998

Mitzi Goldman

"The documentary, Ports of Destiny,tells of one Jewish family's dispersal throughout the world to escape the Holocaust. It captures the emotional reunion of 76 year old Bernard Goldman with long lost family members who had fled Germany to Buenos Aires while he had escaped to Sydney. The film lends a new dimension to the Diaspora, as well as the significance of family"--Container. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-5574

 

The quarrel 1996, 1990

Eli Cohen, David Brandes, Kim Todd, Chaim Grade, Joseph Telushkin, Saul Rubinek , and R. H Thompson

Two Holocaust survivers meet in Montreal in 1948. One has become deeply religious, the other has turned his back on God. Now they have one afternoon to reconcile their differences, and renew their faith and friendship. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-3083

 

Schindler's list 1994

Steven Spielberg, Steven Zaillian, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, John Williams, and Thomas Keneally

The true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer & war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. 2 videocassettes (197 min.)

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Searching for Wallenberg 2002

Robert Kimmel and Bernard Hammelburg

Documentary about the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who in 1944 saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, working from his diplomatic position in Budapest. The film also investigates the mystery surrounding his fate after his arrest and imprisonment by the Soviet Union in 1945. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-6145

 

Secret lives hidden children and their rescuers during WWII c2003

Aviva Slesin, Toby Appleton Perl, Aviva Films, and Cinema Guild

"Tells the stories of a small number of Jewish children who were saved from the Nazis by non-Jews who hid these children in their homes"--Container. 1 videocassette (72 min.)

MEDIA 2-6500

 

Shoah a film 1986

Claude Lanzmann

Shoah is the Hebrew word for Annihilation.  Lanzmann's monumental epic of the Nazi inflicted Holocaust, 1933-1945.  Comprises oral recounting of the event by people involved in it and those effected by it. 5 videocassettes (VHS) (570 min.)

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Sophie's choice 1999

William Styron, Meryl Streep, Peter MacNicol, Kevin Kline, Alan J Pakula, Keith Barish, ITC Entertainment Group, LIVE Entertainment (Firm), and Artisan Home Entertainment (Firm)

A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbor. 1 videodisc (150 min.)

MEDIA 10-549

 

Survivors of the Holocaust 1996, 1995

Steven Spielberg, Allan Holzman, June Beallor, James Moll, and Ben Kingsley

Chronicles the events of the Holocaust as witnessed by those who survived.  The program weaves together archival footage and an original music score with survivors' personal testimonies and photographs, chronicling life in pre-war Europe, the devastating impact of Nazism, the liberation of the concentration camps and life fifty years later.  Contains an additional segment, hosted by Ben Kingsley, which takes the viewer behind the scenes at Survivors of the Shoah Visual History  Foundation.  Included is footage of Steven Spielberg himself, discussing and describing this, his most ambitious project ever. 1 videocassette (70 min.)

DANA 1138

 

Tala! det "ar sĺ Mĺrkt = Speak up! : it's so dark 1993

Simon Norrthon, Etienne Glaser, Suzanne Osten, Christer Nilson, Götafilm AB, Svenska filminstitutet, Sveriges television, and First-Run Features Home Video (Firm)

A fictional film about Jacob, a Jewish psychiatrist, and Soren, a neo-Nazi skinhead.  Issues of neo-Nazism, Holocaust denial, and violence provide the backdrop for a series of encounters between the two men. 1 videocassette (ca. 86 min.)

MEDIA 2-7664

 

Terezin diary 1989

Dan Weissman, Zuzana Justman, James Edward Young, and Eli Wallach

The Nazis used Terezín as a "model" concentration camp for propaganda purposes. In reality, Terezín was a way station to the extermination camps, and the prisoners faced overcrowding and disease. 1 videocassette (ca. 88 min.)

DANA 1186

 

The trial of Adolf Eichmann 1997

Daniel B Polin, Kenneth Mandel, and David Brinkley

Presents a complete account of the trial of Adolph Eichmann. Shows a detailed exposition of the events leading to the Holocaust as well as the tragedy of a man who thought obedience to an order exonerated him from responsibility for unbelievable crimes. 2 videocassettes (116 min.)

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Triumph of memory 1988

Robert Gardner and Arnost Lustig

Four survivors of Nazi concentration camps describe their experiences and the horrors of camp life. Interviews are interspersed with extensive archival footage. 1 videocassette (29 min.)

MEDIA 2-4227

 

Triumph of the will Triumph des willens 1983

Leni Riefenstahl

Perhaps the greatest propaganda documentary ever filmed. The official record of the Sixth Nazi Party Congress at Nurnberg. Undoubtedly successful when shown in Nazi Germany. Today, it is absorbing as a psychological study of Germany and its leaders. Fascinating views of the Nazi hierarchy in action. 1 videocassette (110 min.)

MEDIA 2-1587

 

Voices of the children 1996

Zuzana Justman, Jirí Jezek, and Robert Kantor

Interviews with three survivors of the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Helga Hoskova, Michael Kraus and Helga Kinsky, who kept diaries of their experiences. These diaries were either hidden or taken from them after the three were deported to Auschwitz. After the liberation, the diaries were recovered or rewritten from memory. 1 videocassette (80 min.)

MEDIA 2-3195

 

The Wannasee conference 1987

Paul Mommertz and Heinz Schirk

Depicts the conference at Wannsee in Berlin January 2, 1942, attendedby Nazi leader to determine the fate of the Jewish people. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-565

 

Warsaw ghetto 1996

Alexander Bernfes and Hugh Burnett

History of the Warsaw ghetto, originally produced as a BBC documentary. Shows Jews entering the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940 and reveals the horrors of disease and hunger, deportation to the death camps, and the dying in the streets. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

DANA 1491

 

The world at war. 20, Genocide, 1941-1945 c1982

Michael Darlow, Charles Bloomberg, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

A documentary beginning in 1933 when Heinrich Himmler was already Reichsfuhrer of the SS and starting his plan of recreating an Aryan Germany which led to the formation of the death camps and the ordering of massive extermination of Jews and other "enemies of the state.". 1 videocassette (52 min.)

  DANA 1958