Movies: Holocaust shoah

In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, his extended family was sent to the gas chambers. Ovadia struggled to survive until his liberation from the Mauthausen...

A documentary about an orchestra comprised of female prisoners in Auschwitz....

An American family visits a concentration camp in Germany. At the museum, the father makes the acquaintance of an older man who questions his prejudices....

Filmed in 1983, during the presentation of Peter Weiss' play at the Fred Barry theater at UQAM. This document exposes us to a play dealing with the Shoah, and its intention to present the medium of video as a specific language....

A documentary film about the Nazi criminal Stefan Rojek. Rojko was an SS-Oberscharführer in the Small Fortress Terezín during World War II, the "right hand" of the fortress commander Heinrich Jöckel. After the war he fled to Graz, later sentenced to ...

During The Second World War, a Nazi officer is open against the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, until his roommate hears his ideas and decides to give him a lesson....

Ten-year-old Herb Gildin and his two older sisters were sent by their German-Jewish parents to live with non-Jewish families in Sweden to escape Nazi persecution. Two years later, they were reunited with their parents in America as refugees. Decades ...

A documentary short film about the genocide at the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia in World War II....

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This powerful short documentary traces the harrowing liberation of Nazi concentration camps across Europe from 1944 to 1945, including Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and Auschwitz. Through carefully curated archival footage and historical narration, Bearing ...

While searching for her grandmother, the director comes across the story of three brothers who are torn between the fronts of political ideologies in the Third Reich and divided Germany: "the third brother" is the filmmaker's grandfather, who, in con...

Silent archival footage of Jewish children during the Holocaust, accompanied by music and poetic narration. A haunting portrait of a future generation lost to cruelty and genocide....

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family's ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz's autobiographical novel....

In 1944 Rudolf Breslauer documented the everyday life in the Westerbork transit camp on film, commissioned by the German camp commander Albert Gemmeker. The Westerbork Film was never completed, but much of the raw footage is preserved....

Photographer and filmmaker Luigi Toscano spends a year meeting with hundreds of Holocaust survivors around the world to share their stories....

Romanian documentary about the Struma disaster in 1942....

Forgotten Transports to Poland is a documentary by Lukáš Přibyl, part of a series that explores lesser-known Holocaust deportations. This film focuses on Jewish deportees sent to little-known camps in eastern Poland during World War II. It highlights...

The 43 Group was an English anti-fascist group set up by Jewish ex-servicemen in the immediate wake of World War II when, on their return to London, they encountered British fascist organisations such as Jeffrey Hamm’s “British League of Ex-Serviceme...

Nyosha is a ten year old girl. She dreams of buying a pair of shoes during the reality of a pitiless war. She believes that because of her shoes, she will stay alive.A range of animation techniques brings together the dream and the reality and tells ...

Stories of 12 gay and lesbian survivors of Nazism and the Holocaust....