Audiovisual Material
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y - Filmstrips - 16mm films
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A JEW AMONG THE GERMANS
DVD 60 min. HA HHR-DVD10
As a young boy, Marian Marzynski survived the Holocaust. But his father and most of his relatives did not. Marzynski sets out on a quest to find out how Germans are going to design a memorial to the murder of six million Jews. It will be unveiled on the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. Over 3 years, he encounters artists, architects and planners who struggle with the big questions of guilt, responsibility and memory.
ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
VHS 29 min. MHA HHR-V17
A young American woman, daughter of a survivor of the Nazi death camps, tells about her search for knowledge of the Holocaust years and she explains why the study of the Holocaust is still important.
AN ACT OF FAITH
VHS 28 min. b&w HA HHR-V28
This is the dramatic firsthand account of the role played by the Danish people in saving their Jewish countrymen from Nazi extermination. Originally presented on CBS-TV.
ALL MY LOVED ONES
VHS 91 min. Czech with English subtitles MHA HHR-V132
The Siberstein's, a fictional Czech family, enjoy the good life and paid little attention to the Nazi threat until it was too late. Would they be able to make the difficult decision to send their son to safety on a kindertransport? Inspired by the real life Nicholas Winton, an English stockbroker who saved hundred of Czech Jewish children from the Nazis.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
VHS 136 min. HA HHR-V39
Winner of the 1930 Best Picture Academy Award, this adaptation of the famous novel shows a group of young German recruits in WWI through their passage from idealism to disillusionment.
AMEN
DVD 130 min HA HHA-DVD14
SS Lieutenant Kurt Gerstein witnesses the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Jews. He documents what he has seen and, with the help of a young Jesuit priest, attempts to alert the Vatican. Dramatizes the history of how religious leaders in Germany and the Vatican ignored the plight of Europe's Jews during WW II. Based on a true story.
AMERICA AND THE HOLOCAUST - DECEIT AND INDIFFERENCE
VHS 90 min. MHA HHR-V87
A disturbing look at what was known about the Nazi plans to exterminate the Jews of Europe and how the American government suppressed information.
ANCHOR OF THE SOUL
VHS 60 min. MHA HHR-V86
An in-depth look at Black history, race relations in northern New England, and the struggle to sustain a church in Portland, Maine.
THE ANGEL OF BERGEN-BELSEN
VHS 50 min. HA HHR-V112
This A & E Investigative Report tells of Luba, a 19-year-old Polish Jew, who is sent to Auschwitz where her life is spared by the quick actions of a relative. She survives Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen where she cares for 54 Dutch children left by the Nazis to die. Through archival footage, photographs, and interviews we learn of her courage and ingenuity.
ANNE FRANK IN MAINE
VHS 28 min. MHA HHR-V13
The Junior High School class of Kennebunk, Maine decides to perform The Diary of Anne Frank to learn more about the Holocaust, and the entire community gets involved.
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: 90 YEARS LATER
DVD 55 min. HA HHR-DVD12
This production by the University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in partnership with Minnesota Public Television marked the 90th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. It deals with the issues and memory of the genocide. Local scholars were featured, as well as, three children of survivors of the Armenian Genocide.
ASSIGNMENT RESCUE: THE STORY OF VARIAN FRY AND THE EMERGENCY RESCUE COMMITTEE
DVD & VHS 26 min MHA HHR-DVD/ HHR-V
An exciting account of courage and dedication. Varian Fry, a 32 year old journalist, was sent to Marseilles in 1940 by the Emergency Rescue Committee to evacuate refugees detained by the Vichy government. He saved the lives of more than 2000 intellectual and political refugees, including many of Europe's most distinguished artists, writers, and scholars. B/W and Color
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS
VHS 103 min. HA HHR-V18
This moving autobiographical account of a boy's first first friendship, and his discovery of the real world, is set in a Catholic boarding school during the German occupation of France.
AUSCHWITZ
VHS & DVD 60 MIN HA HHR-V125/ HHR-DVD
Produced by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Uses archival film footage to show the increase in persecution of Jews under Nazi occupation, actions against Jews, the formation of the ghettos, and the implementation of the Final Solution. Narrated in English, the video gives the history of the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex and describes the treatment of its inmates. The DVD version is playable only with a computer DVD program
AUSCHWITZ: IF YOU CRIED, YOU DIED
VHS 28 min. MHA HHR-V89
Chronicles the journey of two Holocaust survivors as they revisit Auschwitz. This video is about prejudice, the past, and the present. Teacher's guide included.
AUSCHWITZ: INSIDE THE NAZI STATE
DVD 5 hrs. HA HHR-DVD
This 6-part series tells the story of the Auschwitz Death Camp, site of the largest mass murder in history. Writer Laurence Rees and his team interviewed over 100 eyewitnesses, including former Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their story is brought to life through the use of archived footage, recreations of key moments, computer reconstructions based on recently discovered plans of the camp, and their testimony. Learning resources for the series can be found at http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz.
AUSCHWITZ: THE NAZIS AND THE FINAL SOLUTION
DVD 5 hrs. HA HHR-DVD
Available in English and Polish with subtitles in Polish, German and Hebrew this DVD is the European version of Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (see above for description). The content is the same. This DVD is playable only with a computer DVD program.
AVENUE OF THE JUST
VHS 55 min. HA HHR-V12
In Jerusalem, at the Yad Vashem Memorial, there is a garden surrounded by a tree-lined walk which commemorates heroism and life. Each tree on the Avenue of the Just bears the name of a Christian who saved Jewish lives during the Hitler years, ten of whom recount their experiences in this extraordinary video.
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BEHIND THE MASK
VHS 8 min. E HHR-V75
A fast-paced animated video using a rap music soundtrack. Although not explicitly stated, the concepts of difference, prejudice, and self-expression are evoked in the video's action.
THE BIRDMAN
VHS 13 min. MHA HHR-V70
Short video about a survivor of the death camps, his life in Israel today. Shows his avocation as a witness, especially to young people, to the Holocaust. One graphic photo of the death camps.
BONHOEFFER: AGENT OF GRACE
DVD 90 min. MHA HHR-VHS138
In November 1940 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran minister who opposed the German regime, was recruited as an agent of the German military resistance. He used his contacts to spread information about the resistance movement. With the discovery of the Canaris diary his role is discovered, and he is hanged in April 1945. Background information about Bonhoeffer can be found at http://www.ushmm.org/bonhoeffer/b2.htm.
BROKEN SILENCE
DVD 4 hrs. 43 min. English subtitles MHA HHR-DVD1
A series of five films about human courage, heroism, and triumph over intense adversaries during World War II. Films include Some Who Lived, Spanish, 54 min.; Eyes of the Holocaust, Hungarian, 56 min.; Children from the Abyss, Russian, 53 min.; I Remember, Polish, 56 min.; and Hell on Earth, Czech, 55 min. From Steven Spielberg and the Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
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CABARET
VHS 124 min. A HHR-V52
This Academy Award winner brings 1931 Berlin to life. At the Kit Kat Klub, performers sound the call to decadent fun, while in the streets the Nazi party grows into a brutal force.
THE CALIFORNIA REICH
VHS 55 min. HA HHR-V36
Deals with a bizarre, complicated, and frightening phenomenon--the rebirth of the Nazi movement in America.
THE CAMERA OF MY FAMILY: FOUR GENERATIONS IN GERMANY 1845-1945
VHS 18 min. MHA HHR-V10
A story of one upper-middle class German-Jewish family, set against a search for personal identity.
CHASING SHADOWS
VHS 52 min. MHA HHR-V81
After 45 years, Rabbi Hugo Gryn returns to his childhood home in Berehovo, once part of Czechoslovakia. Through modern and archival footage, Gryn recalls his boyhood in a vibrant Jewish community, explaining how the Holocaust ended Jewish life in Berehovo, his hometown.
CONSPIRACY
DVD 96 min. MHA HHR-DVD2
On January 20, 1942, with the tide of war turning in favor of the Allies, a small group of SS officers, government ministers, and Nazi officials met near Berlin to decide the fate of Europe's Jews. Based on the only surviving record of that meeting, Conspiracy is a powerful combination of historical reconstruction and speculation that attempts to offer new insights into a pivotal moment in history.
THE COURAGE TO CARE
VHS 28 min. MHA HHR-V14
A video about non-Jews who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, is exceptional, both as an educational resource and for personal enlightenment.
CRIMES OF HATE
VHS 30 min. MHA HHR-V83
Shows hate crimes based on anti-Semitism, racism, and gay bashing. Interviews with neo-Nazis and other racists, victims, and law enforcers illustrate the extent of the hate crimes problem in the U.S.
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DANIEL'S STORY
VHS 14 min. MHA HHR-V77
Based on the children's exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, this video traces the story of Daniel from his happy home life, transport to a ghetto, and deportation to an extermination camp.
DARING TO RESIST
VHS 56 min. MHA HHR-V113
Three Jewish women reflect on their lives as teenagers in Nazi-occupied Europe and their roles in resistance movements. Contains family photos and home movies, in addition to, archival film and photos.
DAVID
VHS 106 min. HA HHR-V34
David is a young German Jewish teenager who is caught up in the Nazi regime's persecution, eventually losing his home and family to the Holocaust.
DEAR KITTY: A FILM ABOUT THE LIFE AND DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
VHS 25 min MHA HHR-VHS139
In the film 'Dear Kitty' the life of Anne Frank is told with quotations from her diary together with images of the place where she was hiding, photos from the family album and historical film material. The start and end of the film lies in the present: Anne Franks former school now painted with quotations from the diary.
DEFYING GENOCIDE: CHOICES THAT SAVED LIVES
DVD 19 min HA
Simone Weil Lipman, a young Jewish woman, helped to save thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust is the starting point for an exploration of our responsibility when faced with genocide today. The film focuses on Damas Gisimba, director of a small orphanage in Rwanda besieged by militias during the 1994 genocide. Gisimba, with the help of American aid worker Carl Wilkens provided sanctuary to 400 children and adults. A production of the United States Holocaust Museum. Contains graphic images.
THE DEMJANJUK TRIAL: A MOMENT IN HISTORY
VHS w/study guide 15 min. MHA HHR-V30
A documentary produced by the Cleveland Jewish News on the 1981 trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of hiding his Nazi past when he came to the U.S. after World War II.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
VHS 150 min. MHA HHR-V25
Based on the diary of a young Jewish girl before she was killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
VHS 170 min. MHA HHR-V94
A B/W cinematic classic based on the real diary of Anne Frank, a 13-year-old girl who chronicled the lives of two Jewish families hiding from the Nazis. A printed guide with reproducible Readings and Activities is included.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER: MEMORIES AND PERSPECTIVES
VHS 90 min. HA HHR-V93
A young pastor in Germany when Hitler came to power, Bonhoeffer was one of the first among his fellow countrymen to recognize the threat posed by Nazism. He played an active role in the German resistance movement.
DOWNFALL
DVD 155 min HA-DVD
This German historical drama depicts Hitler's bunker during the final days of the Third Reich as seen through the eyes of Hitler's secretary Trundl Junge. In German with English subtitles.
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EAST AND WEST
VHS 85 min. MHA Yiddish (English subtitles) HHR-V111
Morris Brown and his daughter, Mollie, return from New York to Poland. Mollie unexpectedly meets her match, an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsakes tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart. Hilarious clashes of culture between East and West.
ECHOES THAT REMAIN
VHS 60 min. HA HHR-V20
A poignant study of Jewish shtetl life before the Holocaust. It combines hundreds of rare archival photos and unseen film footage, with live action sequences shot on location at the sites of former Jewish communities in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
THE EIGHTY-FIRST BLOW
VHS 115 min. HA Hebrew/Yiddish (English subtitles) HHR-V53
A documentary of footage and still shots by the Nazis, and testimony from witnesses at the Eichmann trial. A powerful memorial to the spirit and courage of those who survived.
ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY
VHS 121 min. HA HHR-V23
An unforgettable tale of people and passions lost and found, sparkling with all the absurdity and tragi-comedy of life itself.
ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR
VHS 119 min. MHA HHR-V119
Based on the book of the same name by Richard Rashke. This is the story of the Sobibor death camp and the successful escape attempt of its prisoners.
ESCAPE OR DIE: TRUE STORIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST
VHS 44 min. MHA HHR-V
Ina R. Friedman, author of the book by the same title, tells the stories of three teenagers who survived the Holocaust with archival photographs used to provide a visual background to the stories. Each first-person story can be used independent of the others.
EUROPA EUROPA
VHS 115 min. HA HHR-V76
In this video of the acclaimed German film, the true story of Solomon Perel, a German-Jewish teenager who survived the Holocaust by hiding his true identity for seven years, is told. In German and Russian with English subtitles; some nudity.
THE EXILES
VHS 116 min. A HHR-V64
The story of Jewish and other anti-Nazi intellectuals who escaped from fascism; includes the actions of people in the U.S. who both helped and hindered their escapes. Explains the tremendous influence of the exiles on post-war American society.
EYES FROM THE ASHES
VHS 12 min. HA HHR-V98
Created from the many family photographs housed at the Auschwitz death camp. This poignant video leads to the inevitable question: Which photographs would you choose to take into the unknown?
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FACES OF THE ENEMY
VHS 58 min. MHA HHR-V67
Thought-provoking PBS documentary on the use of visual propaganda to show other nations and people as the "enemy." Explains how demonizing people can lead to murder and war.
FATELESS
DVD 140 min. HA HHR-DVD15
Set in 1944 this is semi-autobiographical tale of a 14 year-old Jewish boy from Budapest caught in a round up and deported to a concentration camp. His existence becomes a surreal adventure in adversity and adaptation. Based on the Irme Kertész novel by the same name. Additional features: Making of Fateless and interview with author. Hungarian with English sub-titles.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
VHS 169 min. MHA HHR-V133
This rousing musical, based on the stories of Shalom Aleichem, takes place in pre-revolutionary Russia and centers on the life of Tevye, a milkman who is trying to keep his family's traditions in place while marrying off his three older daughters. Yet, times are changing and the daughters want to make their own matches, breaking free of many of the constricting customs required of them by Judaism. In the background of these events, Russia is on the brink of revolution and Jews are feeling increasingly unwelcome in their villages.
FUHRER! RISE OF A MADMAN
VHS 108 min. b&w HA HHR-V26
Witness the life of Adolph Hitler through original footage, from his Mein Kampf prison days to his suicide in a Berlin bunker. A chilling documentary.
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A GENERATION APART
VHS 50 min. HA HHR-V8
This video brings to the screen a new and dramatic dimension of Hitler's attempted destruction of the Jewish people. Now that the children of survivors are grown, it has become painfully clear that their parents' wartime horrors have formed a very real emotional cornerstone in their families' relationships.
A GOOD MAN IN HELL
VHS 13 min. HA HHR-V126, DVD 13 min. HA HHR-DVD126
In 1994, Canadian General Roméo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations Mission in Rwanda, warned of possible mass murder of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu extremists. Unheeded by the UN officials in New York, his warning became a reality. This short video combines portions Dallaire's conversation with Ted Koppel at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 12, 2002 about the Rwandan Genocide with background information.
THE GARDEN OF FINZI-CONTINIS
VHS 90 min. HA HHR-V19
A haunting love story set amidst the beauty and turbulent political passions of prewar Italy.
GENOCIDE
VHS 121 min. HA HHR-V65
Narrated by Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor, this video of the film which was the winner of a Best Documentary Academy Award, explains the Nazi attempt to destroy European Jews. Contains graphic footage of mass murder and the death camps.
GHOSTS OF RWANDA
DVD 120 min. HA HHR-DVD11
Frontline marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide with a documentary chronicling one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. In addition to interviews with key government officials and diplomats, the two-hour documentary offers eyewitness accounts of the genocide from those who experienced it firsthand. FRONTLINE illustrates the failures that enabled the slaughter of 800,000 people to occur unchallenged by the global community.
THE GOEBBELS EXPERIMENT
DVD 107 min. HA HHR-DVD16
This documentary offers a rare glimpse into the mind of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Reich Minister of Public Enlightment and Propaganda, who successfully manipulated mass political opinion. Goebbels speaks for himself (in the voice of Kenneth Branagh) via the extensive diaries he kept from 1924-1945. With English sub-titles.
THE GREAT DICTATOR
VHS 126 min HA HHR-V124
In this 1940 satire on the Axis powers Charlie Chaplin plays two roles. One is a Jewish ghetto barber facing the constant threat of storm troopers and religious persecution. The other is the maniacal dictator, Adenoid Hynkel, a brilliant lampoon of Adolph Hitler.
THE GREY ZONE
DVD 108 min HA HHR-DVD17
Based on real-life events, the film chronicles a unit of Auschwitz's Sonderkommando, a special squad of Jewish prisoners, who staged the only armed revolt that ever took place at Auschwitz. CAUTION; GRAPHIC VIOLENCE
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THE HANGMAN
VHS 10 min. MHA HHR-V85
An animated video based on the poem by Maurice Ogden. Use with discussion on bystanders and the effects of apathy.
THE HIDING PLACE
DVD 146 min. MHA
Based on the true story the film traces the lives of Corrie ten Boom, her father, and sister Betsie, from the quiet years before World War II, to their work with the "underground" in helping save the lives of Jewish families. When they are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps themselves, their Christian faith keeps them from bitterness and despair.
HITLER'S ASSAULT ON EUROPE
VHS 17 min. MHA HHR-V51
Begins with Germany's attack on Poland in September of 1939 and ends with the war's turning point in the winter of 1941-1942, when thousands of Hitler's troops froze to death on their march to Moscow. Uses maps to document the strategic and territorial changes that took place in Europe as the invasion progressed.
HITLER'S FIXER: THE TRUE STORY OF HITLER'S DEPUTY, MARTIN BORMANN
VHS 52 min. HA HHR-VHS134
Martin Bormann, Hitler's confident chosen to be the next leader of the Nazi Party, was one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich. This documentary looks at Bormann's rise through the Nazi Party and explores his relationship with Hitler, as well as, his is mysterious end.
HITLER'S RISE TO POWER: THE PUTSCH
VHS 15 min. MHA HHR-V50
Chronicles the events which led up to the Beer Hall Putsch, explaining how the political and economic turmoil that followed the Revolution of 1918 contributed to the Nazi party--and Adolph Hitler's--rise to power.
HOLOCAUST: IN DARK PLACES
VHS 90 min. HA HHR-V24
Writer and social critic Susan Sontag, with a group of present-day students explores the meaning of Hitler's genocide.
THE HOLOCAUST IN MEMORY OF MILLIONS
VHS 60 min. HA HHR-V106
Chronicles the entire story of the Holocaust - from the rise of the Nazi party and their plan to exterminate the Jewish people, to tales of incredible bravery among Holocaust survivors and those who liberated the concentration camps.
HOLOCAUST: LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ
VHS 18 min. HA HHR-V55
Presents film footage, stored for forty years, by a young Soviet cameraman traveling with the troops who liberated Auschwitz.
HOLOCAUST ON TRIAL
VHS 55 min. HA HHR-V114
NOVA reconstructs the courtroom proceedings of the David Irving/Deborah Lipstadt libel trial. The evidence presented by Irving and by his opponents to trace the tragic record of the Holocaust is examined and fundamental questions are raised about the responsibility of historians in recording and interpreting the Holocaust. Contains graphic archival film footage.
HOLOCAUST: THERESIENSTADT
DVD 72 min MHA
Between 1941 and 1945, the little fortress town of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia was the transit point for the death camps in the east for thousands of Jews. Using archival film footage, photographs and survivor testimony, this documentary provides insights into this "model ghetto" showcased to the world. Color and B&W
THE HOLOCAUST: THROUGH OUR OWN EYES
VHS 38 min. HA HHR-V96
Moving testimonies of Holocaust survivors filled with unforgettable first person recollections. Some graphic photographs.
HOPE AND GLORY
VHS 118 min. MHA HHR-V56
Video of John Boorman's acclaimed film of World War II as seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old English boy.
HOTEL RWANDA
DVD 2 hrs. 2 min. HA HHR-DVD
During the 1994 genocidal tribal slaughter of Tutsis by Hutus, Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, saved 1,200 Rwandan "guests" from certain death. The horror of the genocide is evident, as well as, the world's lack of response to the slaughter. Special features include commentary by the director and Paul Rusesabagina, "A Message for Peace: Making Hotel Rwanda‚" and Return to Rwanda. A teacher's guide can be found at http://amnestyusa.org/countries/sudan/hotelrwanda.html.
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INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS: STORIES OF THE KINDERTRANSPORTS
VHS 117 min. MHA HHR-V127
In the months before World War II, an extraordinary rescue operation aided the youngest victims of Nazi terror. Ten thousand Jewish and other children were transported from German-held lands to foster homes and hostels in Great Britain. This documentary is filled with rare archival footage and the remembrances of the child survivors, rescuers, and parents of the heroic Kindertransport. B&W & Color.
IT'S ELEMENTARY
VHS 78 min. A HHR-V109
Geared to educators and parents, this video shows what actually happens when teachers lead class discussion that addresses anti-gay prejudice. Winner of Best Educational Film at the Northern Lights Festival.
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JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES STAND FIRM AGAINST NAZI ASSAULT
VHS 78 min. HA HHR-V107
As the Nazi killing machine engulfed Europe with terror, thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses suffered brutal persecution. In this video, historians and Witness survivors join in relating a story of courage and triumph.
JOSEF MENGELE: MEDICAL MADMAN OF AUSCHWITZ
VHS 50 min. HA HHR-V115
A & E Biography examines the horrific legacy of the "Angel of Death," Josef Mengele, the notorious doctor who performed hideous experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz. Through archival footage, interviews, and excerpts from his personal diary, the story of Mengele's evil, his escape to post-war South America, and curious death are told.
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THE LAST BUTTERFLY
VHS 105 min. MHA HHR-V116
Antoine, a famous French actor, is taken prisoner by the Gestapo and sentenced to perform in Terezin. Created by the Germans, this ghetto is filled with artists and children and used to show the world how well the Nazis treat the imprisoned Jews. But when Antoine discovers the horrifying truth, and as he rehearses a performance with a group of children, he refuses to play a role in the Nazi charade.
THE LAST CHAPTER
VHS 85 min. HA HHR-V79
Extensive use of film from pre-war Poland at the ghettos brings home the murder of 90 percent of Poland's Jews during the Holocaust. This prize-winning documentary traces 1,000 years of history from the flowering of Jewish culture in Poland to its almost total destruction in the Holocaust.
THE LAST DAYS
VHS 87 min. HA HHR-V128
Produced in conjunction with Steven Spielberg and the Shoah Foundation, this Academy Award winning documentary uses the testimony of five Hungarian survivors and actual footage to tell the journeys of each after Hitler's invasion of Hungary in 1944. Includes interviews with a former Nazi doctor at Auschwitz and American liberators of Dachau.
THE LITTLE SOLDIERS
VHS 14 min. MHA HHR-V71
Documentary about a group of Jewish partisans, who after escaping from a ghetto, fought the Nazis. Told through photographs and interviews with survivors. Several photos of the death camps.
LODZ GHETTO
DVD 103 min HA
The Polish city of Lodz held the second largest Jewish community in Europe. Of the 200,000 confined to the Lodz Ghetto, 800 survived. Scripted using secret diaries left behind and still and moving images, many taken by ghetto photograhers, the documentary provides a picture of daily life and the deportation of the ghetto inhabitants to death. Contains: 15 minute Sources and Survivors supplement.
THE LONG WAY HOME
VHS 120 min. Color/Black& White MHA HHR-VHS140
As Allied troops liberated Nazi concentration camps in the final weeks of World War II, the trials of the Jews in Europe were hardly over. This documentary tells the story of the formation of the displaced persons (DPs) camps and the attempt to return to normalcy while continuing the search for family. Archival footage and the letters, diaries and oral histories of participants document the European Jews struggle to reach Palestine and the obstacles, political and physical, they encountered.Winner 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
THE LONGEST HATRED
VHS 2 hr. 30 min. HA HHR-V78
This PBS documentary traces antisemitism through art, cartoons, and film, with commentary from scholars, journalists, clerics, and politicians, to demonstrate the religious and historical origins and course of antisemitism.
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MADJANEK: THE CONCENTRATION CAMP IN LUBLIN
VHS 22 min MHA HHR-V122
This film presents the history of the second biggest camp built by the Nazis on the soil of occupied Europe. During the years 1941-1944, about 300,000 people passed through Majdanek. The film utilizes many unique, previously unpublished photographs and archival material.
MAINE SURVIVORS REMEMBER THE HOLOCAUST
VHS 43 min. MHA HHR-V84 (Closed captioned available upon request)
Interviews with eight Maine survivors and an American liberator are interwoven with dramatic archival films, photographs, maps, and music to guide the viewer through this personal history of the Holocaust.
MEMORY OF A MOMENT
VHS 10 min. MHA HHR-V40
Robert Waisman, who was imprisoned at Buchenwald, and Leon Bass, a black American who participated in its liberation, meet 40 years after to discuss their experiences.
MEMORY OF THE CAMPS
VHS 60 min. HA HHR-V16
Forty-one years ago, Allied forces invaded Germany and liberated prisoners in Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which haunt the world's conscience to this day. For the first time an on-site film record of what British and American film crews saw at several camps at the end of World War II.
MESSENGERS OF HOPE
VHS 9 min. MHA HHR-V74
"Hidden Children," Jewish children who survived the Holocaust because they were hidden by Christian rescuers, are interviewed in this brief documentary. The survivors describe their experiences during the Holocaust and its impact on their adult lives.
MIRACLE AT MOREAUX
VHS 58 min. M HHR-V97
Children in a Catholic school need a miracle to save three Jewish children from Nazi oppression. A wonderful production.
THE MUSIC BOX
VHS 126 min. HA HHR-V57
In this courtroom drama, a Chicago lawyer agrees to defend her Hungarian immigrant father against accusations of Nazi war crimes. New evidence moves the trial to Hungary, with surprising results.
MUSSOLINI: RISE AND FALL OF A DICTATOR
VHS 105 min. b&w HA HHR-V27
Mussolini, Hitler's fascist ally, is profiled in this comprehensive biography. He was Hitler's key ally in Europe, and Italy's worst tyrant in modern times.
MY KNEES WERE JUMPING: REMEMBERING THE KINDERTRANSPORTS
VHS 76 min. MHA HHR-V129
Between December 1938 and August 1939 the lives of almost ten thousand children, mainly Jewish, from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia were saved on the Kindertransports. Most of the children never saw their parents again. This is the dramatic story of the filmmaker's mother and her escape from Vienna. B&W & Color.
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THE NAZIS: WARNING FROM HISTORY, HELPED INTO POWER #1
VHS 50 min. MHA HHR-V141
A detailed and sober account of German history from the aftermath of the First World War to Hitler's elevation to the post of Chancellor in 1933. This episode explains how a major European country fell under control of gangsters, aided by elements in the judiciary and business world.
THE NAZIS: WARNING FROM HISTORY, CHAOS AND CONSENT #2
VHS 50 min. MHA HHR-V142
Begins in 1933 with the Nazi power and concludes on the eve of the Second World War. There is chilling evidence that the Nazis enjoyed a large measure of popular support finding scapegoats with a collective obsession. This program shows how the Jews were persecuted and children with disabilities were killed just for being different.
THE NAZIS: WARNING FROM HISTORY, WRONG WAR #3
VHS 50 min. MHA HHR-V143
It's a story of creeping militarization and expansion, with a detailed breakdown of the events that led to Nazi Germany provoking The Wrong War. Hitler's attempt to court the British in the 1930's failed, but a non-aggression pact with Russia opened the way for a German invasion in Poland.
THE NAZIS: WARNING FROM HISTORY, THE WILD EAST #4
VHS 50 min. MHA HHR-V144
Reveals the atrocities that became part of everyday life as western Poland was absorbed into the German Reich. Compelling eyewitness testimony comes not only from the victims but from the perpetrator as well.
THE NAZIS: WARNING FROM HISTORY, ROAD TO TREBLINKA #5
VHS 50 min. MHA HHR-V145
In 1940, there was still no plan to exterminate the Jews - mainly to resettle them, but with the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the complete clearing up of the Jewish question was in sight. Interviewed in this episode, Lithuanian war criminal Petras Zelionka doesn't flinch when talking about killing under German orders - instead, he stares blankly when asked about his conscience.
THE NAZIS: WARNING FROM HISTORY, FIGHTING TO THE END #6
VHS 50 min. MHA HHR-VHS146
This final episode asks why Germany fought on long after any chance of winning the war was gone.
NAZI DESIGNERS OF DEATH
VHS 60 min. HA HHR-V91
A Nova presentation uses overlooked Nazi documents and architectual drawings to refute deniers who say the Holocaust never happened.
THE NAZI SEIZURE OF POWER
VHS 33 min. HA HHR-V49
Traces the rise of Nazi Power from the 107 Nazi seats won in the German national parliamentary election in 1930 to the death of Hindenburg, and the appointment of Hitler to Fuhrer and Chancellor in 1934.
NEVER AGAIN: FROM THE HOLOCAUST TO THE SUDAN
22 min. DVD MHA HHR-DVD7
Narrated by Linda Ellerbee this Nick News Special Edition program looks at why it is important to tell the story of the Holocaust, and why its lessons are applicable to the crisis in the Darfur region of the Sudan. Contains archival film footage and testimony from survivors and their grandchildren. A study guide is available at www.teacher.nick.com.
NEVER AGAIN? GENOCIDE AND INDIFFERENCE
DVD 1 hr. 11 min. HA HHR-DVD
In April 1994 Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager in Rwanda. Through his efforts he saved over 1200 people from the machetes and death. In this April 24, 2006 lecture given at the University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, Rusesabagina talks of his experiences during and after the genocide. He discusses the world's proclamation of ‚"never again‚" and challenges the audience to become active participants.
NICHOLAS WINTON: THE POWER OF GOOD
DVD 64 min MHA HHR-DVD13
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and August 2, 1939, Nicholas Winton organized eight transports (one airplane and seven trains) to take children from Prague to new homes in Great Britain, and kept quiet about it until his wife discovered a scrapbook documenting his unique mission in 1988.
NIGHT AND FOG
VHS 32 min. HA HHR-V92
Video of the award-winning short film using actual black and white footage shot inside Hitler's concentration camps. A brilliant and disturbing document. In French with English subtitles. Directed by Alain Resnais.
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ONE DAY CROSSING
VHS 25 min MHA (English sub-titles) HHR-V123
Budapest, Hungary, October 15, 1944 at the time the Hungarian Nazi movement of the Arrow Cross grows stronger. Through the eyes of a woman and a boy who suddenly enters her life, "One Day Crossing" chronicles the struggle to maintain identity and extend compassion in times of oppression and horror.
ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS
VHS 39 min. MHA HHR-VHS
This Academy Award-winning documentary film tells the empowering story of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissman Klein. Using archival film footage and photographs, Gerda tells of her six years of Nazi cruelty. Note: The film and accompanying teachers' guide and resource book are available free of charge to schools. Order form can be downloaded at http://www.teachingtolerance.org/resources.
THE OTHER SIDE OF FAITH
VHS 27 min. MHA HHR-V68
As told by two of the participants, the moving story of a Polish woman, whose Christian faith helped give her the strength to hide and save thirteen Jews in occupied Poland. Filmed in Poland at the actual sites of the story.
OUT OF HITLER'S REACH: THE SCATTERGOOD HOSTEL FOR EUROPEAN REFUGEES, 1939-1943
VHS 13 min. MHA HHR-V110
Tells the little known story of the Scattergood Hostel in Iowa. From 1939-1943, Quaker farmers and college students provided a temporary safe refuge for European refugees, Jews, and political dissidents as they struggled to build a new life in America.
THE OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
VHS 29 min. HA HHR-V47
Explores the background to Sarajevo and explains why German mobilization precipitated European hostilities.
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VHS 70 min. HA HHR-V130 English (German or French sub-titles)
Using archival film footage and still photos combined with interviews of the few who survived the Nazi persecution, the film documents the repression of gays and lesbians under Hitler. Caution: scenes of violence and sexual intensity. Preview strongly recommended.
PARTISANS OF VILNA
VHS 130 min. HA HHR-V37
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.
PASSAGE
VHS 57 min. MHA HHR-V100
Offers a compelling glimpse of a Norwegian resistance fighter who survived three concentration camps as he struggles to complete a Trans-Atlantic Crossing.
THE PAWNBROKER
VHS 116 min. b&w HA HHR-V45
This video is a memorable portrait of a camp survivor who encounters additional horrors in Harlem. He is haunted by flashbacks of his past and unable to revive any belief in humanity until he undergoes a sudden awareness.
PERSECUTED AND FORGOTTEN: THE GYPSIES OF AUSCHWITZ
VHS 54 min. HA HHR-V80
A group of German gypsies, many of them Holocaust survivors, return to Auschwitz, offering testimony on their experience and attempted annihilation of their people. Many also reveal the discrimination they still face today.
THE PIANIST
DVD 2 hrs. 30 min. HA HHR-DVD4
The story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and concert pianist and composer, who witnessed the Nazi invasion of Warsaw, miraculously eluded the Nazi death camps, and survived throughout World War II by hiding outside the Warsaw ghetto. Also contains Polanski's own story of survival during WW II and behind the scenes interviews.
POLISH JEWS
VHS 100 MIN HA HHR-V131
This video is comprised of a collection of short video clips. Except where noted no English narrative is provided. Clip 1, Jews leaving Palestine, May 1934 (9 1/2 in.); Clip 2, Kazimierz, Jewish District of Cracow, 1936 (5 min.); Clip 3, Care for Health with French subtitles (21 min.); Clip 4, The Ghetto in Dombrowa and Bendzin (10 min.); Clip 5, Removal from the Cracow Ghetto (4 min.); Clip 6, Deportations (7 1/2 min.); Clip 8, Requiem for 500,000 narrated in English (29 min.): Clip 9, Second Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (3 1/2 min.).
PREJUDICE: ANSWERING CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS
VHS 75 min. EMH HHR-V82
A 1992 ABC News special, featuring an audience of divine young people, scientists, and reporters who investigate the roots and effects of prejudice. A good discussion of, and challenge to, stereotypes based on ethnicity, sex, religion, and disability.
PRESERVING THE PAST TO ENSURE THE FUTURE
VHS 15 min. MHA HHR-V72
The viewer joins young, old, black, white, Jews, and Gentiles as they visit Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum and memorial. The video quickly gives an historical account of Hitler's rise to power, the persecution of the Jews, and resistance. Emphasis is on the Children's Memorial, where 1.5 million children murdered in the Holocaust are remembered.
PRISONER OF PARADISE
DVD 90 min. HA HHR-DVD8
The documentary tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a successful German-Jewish actor and director, who after being sent to a concentration camp, was forced by his captors to direct the pro-Nazi propaganda film, "The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews." In addition to exploring his life, it details the remarkable detective story in which Gerron's film, lost for decades after World War II, was tracked down and painstakingly put back together.
PURPLE TRIANGLES
VHS 25 min. color MHA HHR-V73
A story of courage and faith as told by the Kusserow family who, because they were Jehovah Witnesses, were hunted and persecuted by the Nazis. Jehovah Witnesses steadfastly refused to compromise their principles despite strong pressure to adopt Hitler's ideology.
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RESISTANCE: UNTOLD STORIES OF JEWISH PARTISANS
VHS 55 min. MHA HHR-V
It is estimated that as many as 30,000 Jews fled to the forest of Eastern Europe, armed themselves and actively fought the Nazis. Using testimony by Jewish partisans with archival photographs and film footage, this PBS documentary tells their stories.
THE RESTLESS CONSCIENCE
VHS 113 min. HA HHR-V103
Explores the anti-Nazi resistance inside Germany from 1933 to 1945.
REUNION
VHS 120 min. HA HHR-V58
The story of friendship between the sons of a Jewish doctor and German ambassador separated by war and their reunion fifty years later.
THE RIGHTEOUS ENEMY
VHS 84 min. HA HHR-V102
Shows how Italian officials prevented the deportation of some 40,000 Jews in Italian-occupied zones of France, Greece, and Yugoslavia.
ROSENSTRASSE
DVD 136 min MHA HHR-DVD18
Rosenstrasse represents the little-attended-to story of the German women who rescued their Jewish husbands from deportation and death in early 1943 after their arrest in the final roundup in Berlin. In defiance of the Nazis, hundreds of women stood and waited for their husbands' release winning an astonishing victory over the forces of destruction.
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SAFE HAVEN: A STORY OF HOPE
VHS 38 min. MHA HHR-V118
Archival photographs and film footage tell the story of the nearly 1000 European refugees, mainly Jews, who found haven in Oswego, New York, in 1944. Through oral history interviews the story of their journey, their adjustment to the refugee camp and to American life, and their struggle to remain in America is told.
SCHINDLER'S LIST
VHS 187 min. HA HHR-V108
Winner of 7 academy awards, the video presents the true story of Oscar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer, and war profiteer who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference, and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did.
THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
VHS 37 min. HA HHR-V48
Explains the significance of European expansion in Africa, which culminated in almost complete European control in 1914.
SECRET LIVES: HIDDEN CHILDREN AND THEIR RESCUERS DURING WORLD WAR II
DVD 72 min. MHA-DVD3
Before the Second World War, more than 1.5 million Jewish children were living in Europe. By the end of the Holocaust, less than one in ten had survived. Secret Lives tells the emotional stories of a small number of those who were saved by non-Jews in extraordinary acts of bravery and kindness. These men and women of uncommon decency did everything from bringing Jewish children into their families to securing hiding places in closets, attics, or hastily dug bunkers. This captivating documentary reveals what happened between the children and their rescuers and shows how this experience forever changed their lives.
SENTENCED TO SURVIVAL
44 min. each part HA VHS, Part 1& 2 HHR-V42
Surveys the religious, ethical, and social factors which have shaped the Jewish people and contributed to their survival through 4000 years and two major dispersions.
THE SHADOW OF HATE
VHS 40 min. Closed-captioned. MHA HHR-V95
Spans three centuries to examine the challenges that our nation has faced in attempting to live up to its ideals of liberty, equality, and justice for all. Included is Us and Them, a 128-page publication designed to supplement your history text.
SHANGHAI GHETTO
DVD 95 min HA
In the late 1930s many European Jews fled to Japanese-occupied Shanghai where they found themselves penniless and living in a world unlike any they'd known. Through the help of Jewish organizations they established a viable community life despite the hunger and squalor. Uses interviews with survivors and historians, rare letters, stock footage, still photos and recent footage of the site of the original Shanghai Ghetto.
SHIP OF FOOLS
VHS 149 min. HA HHR-V32
Based on Katherine Anne Porter's acclaimed novel, SHIP OF FOOLS is an unforgettable voyage of discovery and self-delusion.
SHOAH
VHS 9 hrs. HA HHR-V9 VOL 1-5
This is Claude Lanzmann's monumental epic on the Holocaust. SHOAH contains none of the horrifying images we expect from a film about the Holocaust. Instead, we are presented with an assemblage of witnesses - death camp survivors and Nazi functionaries - whose combined testimony amounts to one of the most shattering human documents ever recorded.
THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET
VHS 126 min. HA HHR-V38
The funny and touching relationship between an elderly Jewish shopkeeper and her Nazi-appointed "Aryan controller."
SHTETL
VHS 3 hrs. (2 tapes) HA HHR-V105
Produced for Frontline, this haunting account of the quest to uncover the true story of Jewish life in Bransk, before and after the war, reveals a vivid portrait of a lost community and continuing conflict over who should take responsibility.
SOMETIMES IN APRIL
DVD 140 min. HA HHR-DVD19
In April 1994, over the course of 100 days, almost 800,000 people lost their lives during a purge by Hutu nationalists against their Tutsi countrymen in the African nation of Rwanda. Based on true events, this gripping and inspiring drama tells the story of two brothers divided along political lines by the conflict, and details the extraordinary courage and perseverance exhibited by the people of Rwanda. Special Features: audio commentary with writer/director, "Making 'Sometimes in April' " featurette, "100 Days of Genocide" Timeline, and A Rwandan Photo Essay.
SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS
DVD 117 min. MHA HHR-DVD
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose. Sophie's last six days from arrest to interrogation; trial and sentence in 1943 Munich are recreated. Extras: Behind-the-scenes production footage, deleted and alternate scenes, and historical interviews with Sophie Scholl and The White Rose. German with English sub-titles
SOPHIE'S CHOICE
VHS 150 min. HA HHR-V121
Set in 1947 post-World War II Brooklyn, the story revolves around Sophie's struggle as a Polish-Catholic immigrant in the United States who has survived a Nazi concentration camp. The drama of her relationship with her husband is told through the observations of a friend who discovers the hidden truths that they each harbor.
SOVIET DISSIDENTS IN EXILE
28 min. HA VHS HHR-V31
Five men who challenged the Soviet regime and were exiled for it reflect on the past, present, and future - for themselves and the world.
THE STORY OF CHAIM RUMKOWSKI AND THE JEWS OF LODZ
VHS 55 min. HA HHR-V63
Excellent documentary of life in the Lodz ghetto and its Jewish administration, led by Chaim Rumkowski. Explains the ghetto's attempt to adapt and survive under Nazi domination, and the outcome by the end of World War II.
SUGIHARA: CONSPIRACY OF KINDNESS
VHS 82 min. MHA HHR-V147
In the face of the Nazi onslaught, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara made a decision that would change his life and thousands of others. As Japanese Consul to Lithuania, Sugihara defied Tokyo authorities by writing transit visas that were the sole remaining hope of Jews facing extermination. More than 2,000 Sugihara-stamped passports allowed hundreds of families to flee Europe through Russia to Japan and safe havens abroad.
SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST
VHS 25 min. HA HHR-V11
From the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, this documentary features the moving testimony of Holocaust survivors and the children of survivors.
SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST
VHS 70 min. HA HHR-V104
Chronicles the events of the Holocaust as witnessed by those who survived. Includes footage of Steven Spielberg discussing and describing his Visual History Foundation.
SWING KIDS
VHS 114 min. HA HHR-V117, HHR-DVD
During the late 1930's a movement arose among teenagers of Hamburg, Germany who refused to join the Hitler-Jugend. They were obsessed with American movies, British fashion and swing music. They called themselves Swing Kids. This is the story of two who must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the Third Reich.
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10TH ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE TO HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS: REUNION OF A SPECIAL FAMILY
DVD 38 min. MHA HHR-DVD6
In celebration of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's 10th anniversary, 7000 survivors, rescuers and American liberators gathered at the museum on November 11 and 12, 2003. Chapter 1, 20 min., is a tribute to the Holocaust survivors documentary. Chapter 2, A Museum for the 21st Century, 8 min., looks at the museum's programming. Chapter 3, Voices from the Survivor Tribute, 10 min., contains comments by those in attendance regarding their feelings, connecting with old friends, the significance of the museum and the legacy of the Holocaust.
THERESIENSTADT: GATEWAY TO AUSCHWITZ
VHS 55 min. MHA HHR-V90
Educational drawings and paintings created in Theresienstadt are interspersed with narrative testimonies of those who survived.
TEREZIN/THERESIENSTADT (#1)
VHS 28 min. HA HHR-V
Using archival photographs and drawings this documentary gives the history of the town and the building of the fortress at Terezin and its military significance prior to the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia. Starting in 1940 the Nazi Gestapo used the small fortress as a transit camp for prisoners. The history of conditions in the fortress and the treatment of inmates under Nazi control are covered.
TEREZIN/THERESIENSTADT (#2)
VHS 30 min. MHA HHR-V
With the annexation of Czechoslovakia in 1940, the Nazis used the fortress town of Terezin as a reception area and transit camp for Jews and others prior to their deportation to the "East." Using present day images with archival photographs and prisoner art, the ghetto's living conditions, daily life, its inhabitants and their ultimate fate are described.
THEY RISKED THEIR LIVES: RESCUERS OF THE HOLOCAUST
VHS 54 min MHA HHR-V
Using excerpts of interviews conducted with over 30 Holocaust rescuers between 1986 and 1988, this video explores the reasons some people chose to rescue Jews and others in danger during the Holocaust. Those interviewed share the difficulties they faced, their knowledge of the consequence if caught and their concerns for the future.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AFTER HITLER
VHS 18 min. Anti Defamation League 1979 HA HHR-V29
This CBS "60 Minutes" report documents the resurgence of Nazism in West Germany today, where 80 to 90 groups preach Hitler's anti-Semitism and work toward the day when they can take control of the government.
THREE DAYS IN APRIL
VHS 105 min. German with English subtitles HA German HHR-V120
Based on a true story. In April 1945, shortly before the end of the war, a train arrives at the Nesselbühl, Germany village station bringing a horror no one is prepared for: three cattle cars of prisoners, Jews, being moved to a concentration camp farther from Allied Forces. The prisoners remain on the tracks for three days, strangers for whom no one is responsible. Village life goes on as usual. Only for Anna, a young girl who is leader of the German Girls Society and still believes in trusting the Führer, nothing will ever be the same.
TIME OF FEAR
VHS 60 min. MHA HHR-V148
In World War II more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and relocate to military camps dotted across the western United States. Time of Fear tells the story of the 16,000 men, women, and children who were sent to two relocation camps in southeast Arkansas‚ one of poorest and most racially segregated places in America. It also explores the reactions of the native Arkansans who watched in bewilderment as their tiny towns were overwhelmed by the influx of outsiders. Uses rare home movies of the camp and exclusive interviews.
TO BEAR WITNESS
VHS 40 min. Anti Defamation League HA HHR-V43
A powerful documentary about the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps by the Allied Armies in 1945. Using the first International Liberators Conference as a framework for a study of the liberation, this documentary captures the emotional reunions of survivors and liberators, and explores the still painful memories.
TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT
VHS 120 min. HA HHR-V22
The rules were simple: you lose, you die. It is 1939. Salamo Arouch was the middleweight boxing champion of the Balkans. When the Nazis occupy Greece, he, his family, and friends are sent to Poland to the Auschwitz death camp. For the entertainment of the SS officers, he must fight against a fellow inmate. The winner will live to fight again; his opponent dies in the gas showers.
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
VHS 80 min. HA HHR-V60
Video of the controversial propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. Shows Hitler's use of visual symbolism and ability to evoke an emotional response.
TZVI NUSSBAUM: A BOY FROM WARSAW
VHS 50 min. MHA HHR-V62
True story of Tzvi Nussbaum, the boy in a famous photograph of the Warsaw ghetto. As told by the adult Tzvi, the video shows his life in the ghetto and at Bergen-Belsen, his liberation, and his life today.
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THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY
VHS 33 min. HA HHR-V46
Studies the events that contributed to unification - from the formation of the German Confederation in 1815 to the end of the Franco-Prussian war in 1871, with emphasis on the role played by Bismarck.
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VERDICT FOR TOMORROW
VHS 28 min. HA HHR-V15
A well-documented account of the Eichmann trial, narrated by Lowell Thomas.
A VIEW FROM THE UNDERSIDE: THE LEGACY OF DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
VHS 60 min. HA HHR-V88
In this one-person stage play by Al Staggs as Bonhoeffer, he addresses the problems of the Church in Germany during the context of horrifying injustice. Bonhoeffer was executed at Flosenburg Concentration Camp on April 9, 1945.
VOICES OF SURVIVAL
VHS 57 min. HA HHR-V44
Survivors of the Holocaust, representing all walks of life, tell their stories.
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WABANAKI
VHS 28 min. MHA HHR-V99
Shows the quest for cultural survival by today's Wabanaki: the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot people. The voices in the video offer hope that the Wabanaki will use their cultural and spiritual inheritance to survive and thrive in the third millennium.
THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE
VHS 85 min. English subtitles HA HHR-V41
The course of history was altered forever on January 2, 1942, when members of the SS and the Nazi Party met secretly to decide the fate of six million Jews. The Wannsee Conference is an exact reproduction of that tragic historic event.
WARSAW GETTO (Ghetto)
DVD 46 min. MHA HHR-DVD21
Available in English, Polish, Hebrew and Dutch, this DVD contains three segments. The longest (36 min), 912 Days of the Warsaw Ghetto, provides a brief look at life in Warsaw prior to the ghetto and then, using archival film footage, photos, diaries and letters, looks at the formation of the Warsaw ghetto, daily life, deportations and the uprising. The two short segments ( 5 minutes each) deal with children of the ghettos and the uprising. Photos and film footage for both are drawn from the longer piece and contain no narrative. NOTE: Playable only with a computer DVD program.
THE WARSAW GHETTO
VHS 52 min. HA HHR-V69
BBC documentary, using Nazi photographs and film footage of life in the Warsaw ghetto, Jewish resistance, and the ghetto's ultimate destruction.
WEAPONS OF THE SPIRIT
VHS 38 min. MHA HHR-V66
Inspiring, award-winning documentary of the village of Chambon, France, where 5,000 Christian townspeople sheltered 5,000 Jews from across Europe, rescuing them from the Gestapo.
WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST: RISE OF THE NAZIS #1
VHS 20 min. HA HHR-V1
This video shows how a violent, extralegal group of outsiders and fringe element rose to power in a democracy and established political and economic institutions of legitimized terror and mass murder.
WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST: GHETTO LIFE #2
VHS 19 min. HA HHR-V2
The ghetto was one vehicle by which the Nazis planned to reduce the Jewish population through starvation and disease. This video describes ghetto conditions, Jewish efforts to continue living, and the rule of the Judenrat - the Jewish council.
WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST: DEPORTATIONS #3
VHS 19 min. HA HHR-V3
The wearing down of the Jewish population, the collection and deportation of people from the ghettos and countryside to the concentration camps, and the attitude of bystanders.
WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST: RESISTANCE #4
VHS 17 min. HA HHR-V4
This exceptionally moving video explores both spiritual resistance and the continuation of educational and cultural activities, as well as armed resistance.
WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST: THE FINAL SOLUTION #5
VHS 19 min. HA HHR-V5
This sensitive video avoids pure atrocity footage, yet pulls no punches as it deals with selection and death, as well as daily life, in the concentration camps.
WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST; LIBERATION #6
VHS 19 min. HA HHR-V6
Explores the liberation, the movement of survivors back to their homes in Europe, and their subsequent efforts to begin new lives in Israel and America.
WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST: REFLECTIONS #7
VHS 17 min. HA HHR-V7
Survivors reflect on such questions as how the scope of Nazi atrocities grew beyond "the Jewish question" to include non-Jews, and what universal lessons can be learned from the Holocaust.
WITNESSING DARFUR: GENOCIDE EMERGENCY
DVD 17 min MHA HHR-DVD22
In July 2004, the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared a Genocide Emergency for Sudan's western region of Darfur. Tens of thousands of civilians have been murdered there and thousands of women have been raped by Sudanese government soldiers and members government-supported militia referred to as Jangaweed. About two million civilians have been driven from their homes. The lives of hundreds of thousands more hang in the balance today. View this DVD to find out more about what is happening in Darfur and how to access resources to help spread the word.
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YIDL WITH HIS FIDDLE
VHS 92 min. Yiddish with English subtitles MHA HHR-V61
The classic Yiddish musical comedy of a shtetl girl who, disguised as a boy, travels into the Polish countryside. Filmed in pre-war Poland, provides a warm account of Eastern European Jewish life.
Filmstrips
ANNE FRANK: A LEGACY FOR OUR TIME
w/cassettes 40 min. EMH HHR-FS4
"The Story of Anne Frank" familiarizes the audience with her life, while "The Lesson of Anne Frank" examines the values set forth in her writing.
UNDERSTANDING PREJUDICE: SCAPEGOATING, MASTER RACE MYTH
w/cassettes 12 min., 14 min., 16 min. MHA HHR-FS3
Explores various concepts contributing to prejudice, how those beliefs limit both the believer and the victim, and promotes understanding.
UNDERSTANDING PREJUDICE: SCAPEGOATING, STEREOTYPING
w/cassette 12 min. MHA HHR-FS2
Analyzes scapegoating through three historic incidents: the Salem trials, the Nazi persecution of Warsaw Jews, and Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade.
UNDERSTANDING PREJUDICE: THEM AND US
w/cassette 7 min. EMH HHR-FS1
Peter and Brian make crude remarks about their new neighbors from Vietnam…until they see Cheng play soccer.
16mm Films
NIGHT AND FOG
16mm 32 min. HA Special Services/M.S.L.
With almost constant counterpoint - between voice and music, sound and image, still and motion pictures, past and present, living and dead - this profound and deeply moving film by the French director, Alan Resnais, brings home the truth of the nightmare world of the concentration camps in Hitler's Germany.