Maine Survivors Remember the Holocaust

"We were slowly conditioned into the role of victim. We were the ones that were hunted. We looked it and we acted it. We didn't even need that yellow star on our left chest, the fear in our eyes gave us away," explained Gerda Haas, Holocaust Survivor, in Maine Survivors Remember the Holocaust. Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazis systematically isolated, degraded, and then murdered the Jews of Europe, eventually killing approximately six million. The complexity and horror of the Holocaust made it an especially difficult subject to comprehend. Maine Survivors Remember the Holocaust offers a clear compelling introduction to the Holocaust for general audiences. Interviews with eight Maine survivors and an American liberator, interwoven with dramatic archival films, photographs, maps and music, propel the viewer through the tragic history. The personal stories of eyewitnesses demonstrate convincingly how the Holocaust affected individuals.

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Maine Survivors Remember the Holocaust is designed to fit into a single classroom period, and is appropriate for high school students and adults. Teachers may consider it for seventh and eighth grade students if the students have had an extensive course on the Holocaust. It is not meant to stand alone as the "Holocaust unit."

It was produced by award-winning producer Harriet Passerman, directed by Charley Rose, Production Manager Maine Public Television, with Steve Hochstadt, former Bates College historian, as writer and Sharon Nichols, former executive director of the Holocaust Human Rights Center, as project director.

In April 1995, Maine Survivors Remember the Holocaust was one of six nominated for Best Documentary by the Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences. It is included in the Social Studies School Service catalog, ADL Film catalog, and is also sold at the Museum Shop, U. S. Holocaust Museum.

Maine Survivors Remember the Holocaust was shown on Maine Public Television and released nationally. The program is now also available with closed captioning. The price is $24.95 plus $3 shipping & handling. Send a check to:

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