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About the Holocaust
26 min / Color / & BW / JHS+ / VHSAct of Faith
A young American woman, daughter of a survivor of the death camps, tells about her personal search for knowledge of the Holocaust years and she explains why the study of the Holocaust is important now. This videotape includes firsthand accounts from a number of survivors and documentary footage.
Subject(s): 2nd Generation
Vendor: Anti-Defamation League28 min / BW / JHS+ / VHS Film (F 12-100)Adolf Hitler
This dramatic story of the heroic Danish resistance movement against Hitler was originally presented on CBS-TV. Filmed in Denmark, it is a firsthand account of the role played by the Danish people in saving their Jewish countrymen from Nazi extermination.
Subject(s): Resistance; Denmark
Vendor: Anti-Defamation League12 min / Color / General Audience / VHSAll Jews Out
This film biography features both animation and documentary footage to present the story of Hitler's career as well as the progress of Germany from the time of its defeat in World War I until the end of the Nazi period at the close of World War II. It presents the forces at work in Germany which created and motivated the Nazi regime.
Subject(s): Hitler; Nazism; Germany
Vendor: Films for the Humanities & Sciences82 minutes / Color / & BW / General Audience / VHSAmbulance
This documentary by Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher outlines the story of the Jewish Auerbacher family from the German town of Goppingen. It includes home movies of the family from the 1930s and follows Inge through her deportation to the Nazi formed ghetto of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia, where she was imprisoned for 3-1/2 years. Included are contemporary interviews of people in Goppingen including former Nazi Party members.
Subject(s): Survivors; Nazi Germany; Theresienstadt
Vendor: The National Center for Jewish Film9 min / BW / HS+ / VHSAmerica and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference
This short film, with minimal dialogue, gives a powerful and perceptive view of the nature of the extermination process, although there are no scenes of horror in it. It shows a group of children, with their teacher, being held in a barbed wire enclosure just prior to being forced into an extermination van. The attitudes of the children, their teacher, and their guards and murderers will stimulate classroom discussion.
Subject(s): Nazi Atrocities; Children
87 min / Color / & BW / General Audience / VHSThe American Expression: Radio Priest
This video explores the painful and difficult story of America's response to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. Using interviews, archival photos and documents, and home movies and film from the time, the program traces the tragic story of America's inaction on two levels: through the experiences of Kurt Klein, a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of the U.S. government's official policy.
Subject(s): America; Survivor
Vendor: PBS Video58 min / Color / & BW / JHS+ / VHSAngst
During the Depression, Father Charles Coughlin was almost as popular as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Millions of Americans listened every Sunday to the Radio Priest as he led a popular protest against the nation's economic and social system. Coughlin eventually began allying himself with the fascists that were gaining control of Europe. He used the airwaves for anti-democratic messages.
Subject(s): Anti-Semitism in the United States
Vendor: PBS Video56 minutes / Color / Adult / VHSAnne Frank in Maine
This is an analysis of the lives and careers of three Jewish comedians whose parents were Holocaust survivors. It surveys the effects of their legacy on their brands of humor and performance styles. The film includes excerpts of their stage performances as well as personal interviews and analyses of their humor both by experts on Jewish humor and by psychiatrists.
Subject(s): survivors; second generation; psychology
Vendor: The National Center for Jewish Film30 min / Color / JHS+ / VHSAnne Frank Remembered
A Junior High School class in Maine learns about the Holocaust. Students question adults who lived through those years. Gradually the whole community becomes involved, and when the class decides to perform The Diary of Anne Frank, the local church provides the stage. The ministry, townspeople, students and parents comment on the Holocaust study program and its effect on the children involved. Helpful for those developing programs for teaching about the Holocaust in their communities.
Subject(s): Holocaust Education; Anne Frank
Vendor: Anti-Defamation League117 minutes / Color / General Audience / VHSAnschluss + 50 Years
This is a documentary film using archival photos and documents to present the life of Anne Frank and her family from her years in Frankfurt through her final years in Amsterdam.
Subject(s): Anne Frank; Nazi Persecution
Vendor: Social Science School Service14 min / Color / JHS+ / VHSThe Architecture of Doom
This is a major program for those who wonder what became of all the Nazis after WW II. When Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, his entry into Vienna was greeted by half a million cheering Austrians. The debate over Waldheim's Nazi past has raised questions about Austrians today. Were they victims or collaborators during the war? If they were Nazis then, are they still? This segment is from 60 Minutes with Mike Wallace. Interviews with Austrians of all ages and political stripes, a young Austrian Jew and Kurt Waldheim.
Subject(s): Austria; Waldheim; Anti-Semitism; Collaboration; Anschluss
Vendor: Films for the Humanities Inc.119 minutes / BW & Color / HS + / VHSThe Armenian Case
A penetrating analysis of Nazi ideology which extends beyond the scope of ordinary politics. It claims that the underlying motivation was an extreme aesthetic aspiration to return beauty to the world to counteract the miscegenation and degeneration that defiled it through sheer violence.
Subject(s): Nazi Ideology
Vendor: First Run/Icarus Films43 min / Color / HS+ / VHSThe Armenian Genocide
Survivors of Turkish atrocities and European and American eyewitness accounts recall the chilling historical events that were to shape the destiny of the Armenian people. The film includes notable sequences on World War I, President Wilson, the battle of Sardarabad, the establishment of the Republic of Armenia, and the rebuilding of Armenian life in the worldwide Diaspora.
Subject(s): Genocide; Armenians
Vendor: Atlantis Productions26 minutes / Color / & BW Grades 9-12 / VHSAn Armenian Journey
This documentary raises questions about ethnic and racial discrimination by using the 1915-1923 annihilation by the Ottoman Empire as a case example.
Subject(s): Armenian Genocide
Vendor: Social Studies School Service58 min / Color / JHS+ / VHSArt & Remembrance: The Legacy of Felix Nussbaum
For 75 years, a bitter debate has raged over the death of more than one million Armenians in eastern Turkey during World War I. Were they casualties of war or the victims of a calculated effort by Turkish officials to exterminate the Armenian people? Theodore Bogosian, an American journalist of Armenian descent, documents his personal quest for the truth in An Armenian Journey.
Subject(s): Genocide; Armenians
Vendor: Films Incorporated29 min / Color / General Audience / VHSAs If It Were Yesterday
This is 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.
Subject(s): Art
Vendor: First Run/Icarus Films85 min / BW / JHS+ / VHSAshkenaz
This film documents the heroism of the Belgian people who, during the Nazi occupation, hid or helped more than 4,000 Jewish children to escape deportation and extermination, often doing so at the risk of their own lives.
Subject(s): Belgium; Righteous Gentiles; Hiding Children
Vendor: Almi Home Video Corp.15 min / BW General Audience / VHSThe Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
A documentary history of the Jews of the German area spanning the course of 1000 years. (Poor quality film)
Subject(s): Germany
Vendor: Alden Films56 min / Color / & BW / HS+ / VHSAssignment Rescue
Reinhard Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man after Hitler. This documentary drama tells of the plot to assassinate him, which was masterminded in England and carried through to finality in Prague in 1942.
Subject(s): Resistance
Vendor: US Holocaust Memorial Museum26 minutes / BW & Color General Audience / VHSThe Assisi Underground
A documentary about the heroic efforts of Varian Fry, the American editor of LIVING AGE magazine, in rescuing 200 famous intellectual refugees from the hands of the Nazis at the start of World War II in 1940.
Subject(s): Varian Fry; Rescue
Vendor: Social Studies School Service115 min / Color / JHS+ / VHSAt the Crossroads: Jews in Eastern Europe Today
Based on the best-selling documentary novel, this film sheds light on the work done by the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi to rescue several hundred Italian Jews from Nazi execution following the German occupation of Italy in 1943.
Subject(s): Righteous Gentiles; Italy; Docu-drama
Vendor: Social Studies School Service59 min / Color / General Audience / VHSThe Attic
Yale Strom, Klezmer musician, traveled with fellow filmmaker Oren Rudavsky to eastern Europe to explore the lives of Jews there. This video shows the vacuum left by the Holocaust reflected in the faces of older Jews, in empty streets, and in the music that once filled cities. What is surprising is not the devastation they find among elderly survivors and closed synagogues, but the revival of Jewish identity, particularly in Hungary but also in Poland, which had its last official anti-Jewish movement a mere 23 years ago.
Subject(s): Contemporary Jewish Life Eastern Europe; Poland; Hungary; Czechoslovakia
Vendor: Arthur Cantor Films95 min / Color / JHS+ / VHSAu Revoir Les Enfants
This historically accurate drama is based on the book, Anne Frank Remembered, by Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked everything to help her Jewish friends.
Subject(s): Righteous Gentiles; Anne Frank; Docudrama
Vendor: Zenger Media103 min / Color / JHS+ / VHSAuschwitz and The Allies
Based on filmmaker, Louis Malle's experiences at boarding school during the Nazi occupation of France, this film documents the story of a Catholic schoolboy and his Jewish friend who is being sheltered at the school by a courageous French priest. After an act of betrayal, the Gestapo deports the Jewish youngster and the priest to Auschwitz.
Subject(s): Righteous Gentiles; France; Docudrama
Vendor: Social Studies School Service113 min / Color / & BW / JHS+ / VHSAuschwitz: If You Cried, You Died
In June, 1944 two escapees from the most organized center of mass murder in history brought the story of its existence to the Allies. Both men tell their story publicly for the first time in this film. Unfortunately, the general reaction to the news of the death camps was disbelief.
Subject(s): Auschwitz; Nazi Atrocities
Vendor: Films Incorporated28 minutes / JHS + / VHSThe Avenue of the Just
A documentary video chronicling the journey of two Holocaust survivors as they revisit the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Subject(s): Survivors; Auschwitz
Vendor: Impact America Foundation58 min / Color / JHS+ / VHS Film
The title refers to the tree-lined walk at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial honoring righteous Gentiles who saved Jewish lives. There are interviews with men and women who sacrificed for others, and with some of the people they saved.
Subject(s): Righteous Gentiles
Vendor: Anti-Defamation League