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End of Empire
directed by Guo Fangfang; produced by Mashizan Masjum, fl. 2004, Four Square Productions and Crest Communications Production (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002, originally published 2001), 1 hour 5 mins
This film tells the harrowing story of the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1941-45. Archival film as well as fascinating interviews with two historians, Professors A. Jayathurai and Brian Farrell, relate the tragedy of this important theater of war. But it is the story of Alexander Colburn a young Scotsman w...
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directed by Guo Fangfang; produced by Mashizan Masjum, fl. 2004, Four Square Productions and Crest Communications Production (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002, originally published 2001), 1 hour 5 mins
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This film tells the harrowing story of the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1941-45. Archival film as well as fascinating interviews with two historians, Professors A. Jayathurai and Brian Farrell, relate the tragedy of this important theater of war. But it is the story of Alexander Colburn a young Scotsman who had recently signed on for a four-year stint as a pharmacist in the bustling colonial city that gives the dramatic history a persona...
This film tells the harrowing story of the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1941-45. Archival film as well as fascinating interviews with two historians, Professors A. Jayathurai and Brian Farrell, relate the tragedy of this important theater of war. But it is the story of Alexander Colburn a young Scotsman who had recently signed on for a four-year stint as a pharmacist in the bustling colonial city that gives the dramatic history a personal dimension. Instead of enjoying a brilliant career in Singapore, Colburn witnessed its swift and violent end, as well as the symbolic end of the British Empire. In the 1930s it was widely believed that Singapore was an impregnable fortress. When the well-trained and equipped Japanese invaded Northern Malaya in 1941 shortly after Pearl Harbor, they easily defeated the under-prepared Indian, New Zealand and Australian troops who had joined the British there. When British officials realized Singapore would fall they evacuated the colonials, leaving the Chinese, Indian and Malay populations to fend for themselves. Throughout this Colburn worked as a medical volunteer, cleaning up the bodies left from Japanese bombing. Two British battleships were sunk with nine hundred British sailors lost and the British surrendered after six weeks. Under the Japanese occupation, one hundred thousand prisoners of war were arrested and imprisoned or executed in six weeks. Colburn was taken prisoner by the Japanese and spent four years in horrendous conditions, with almost no food or medicine available. He used his experience as a pharmacist to help his fellow inmates as much as he could. It is estimated that twenty to thirty thousand people perished in captivity. As Prof. Jayathurai says, "Churchill gave up Malaya for the defense of Europe. This was the end of the British Empire; everything after that was borrowed time." College Adult
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World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Mashizan Masjum, fl. 2004, Four Square Productions, Crest Communications Production, Eva Petryshen
Author / Creator
Guo Fangfang
Date Published / Released
2001, 2002
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Speaker / Narrator
Eva Petryshen
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Bombardment, Invasions, Massacres, Lines of defense, Military maneuvers, Military occupation, Military strategy, Prisoner of war camps, Prisoners of war, Torture, Civil defense, Japanese invasion of Singapore, February 8-15, 1942, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Fading Traces
directed by Walo Deuber; produced by Rose Marie Schneider, Doc Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 1998), 1 hour 7 mins
The western Ukraine was once home to the largest Jewish community that ever existed. Five million Jews living there had a rich culture, with Jewish music abounding and a thriving Yiddish theater. All this disappeared with the German invasion of Russia in 1941 and the tragic events of the Holocaust. Fading Traces a...
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directed by Walo Deuber; produced by Rose Marie Schneider, Doc Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 1998), 1 hour 7 mins
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The western Ukraine was once home to the largest Jewish community that ever existed. Five million Jews living there had a rich culture, with Jewish music abounding and a thriving Yiddish theater. All this disappeared with the German invasion of Russia in 1941 and the tragic events of the Holocaust. Fading Traces artfully weaves the words of writers such as Rose Auslander, Isaak Babel, Martin Buber, David Kahane, as well as others, with the accoun...
The western Ukraine was once home to the largest Jewish community that ever existed. Five million Jews living there had a rich culture, with Jewish music abounding and a thriving Yiddish theater. All this disappeared with the German invasion of Russia in 1941 and the tragic events of the Holocaust. Fading Traces artfully weaves the words of writers such as Rose Auslander, Isaak Babel, Martin Buber, David Kahane, as well as others, with the accounts and experiences of those still living. The film seeks out the traces of this lost world and brings it to life. Since the opening of the Soviet Union, this historic land is once more accessible. Fertile countryside, ancient tombstones, austere synagogues, train stations, markets, cobble stone streets - the fabric of daily life, as well as the dark forbidding sites of mass graveyards. Here is a past that is all but wiped out, except when excavated deftly and respectfully in Fading Traces. College Adult
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World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Rose Marie Schneider, Doc Productions
Author / Creator
Walo Deuber
Date Published / Released
1998, 2001
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Antisemitism, Internment camps, Jewish people, Massacres, Military occupation, Property destruction, War crimes, Religion, World War II, 1939-1945, Soviet Union, 1922-1991, Family and Culture, Race and Gender, Religion and Belief Systems, War and Violence, World History, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Fragments of Isabella
directed by Ronan O'Leary, 1959-; produced by Michael Scott and Ronan O'Leary, 1959- (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996), 1 hour 13 mins
Finally available from the festival circuit, this riveting film based on the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book by Isabella Leitner, recounts the true story of a young Hungarian Jew and her sisters interned in Auschwitz, their struggle to survive, and their daring escape from a death march to Bergen Belsen. In 1944, Is...
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directed by Ronan O'Leary, 1959-; produced by Michael Scott and Ronan O'Leary, 1959- (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996), 1 hour 13 mins
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Finally available from the festival circuit, this riveting film based on the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book by Isabella Leitner, recounts the true story of a young Hungarian Jew and her sisters interned in Auschwitz, their struggle to survive, and their daring escape from a death march to Bergen Belsen. In 1944, Isabella and her family were arrested and deported by cattlecar to Auschwitz where they encountered Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called "Ang...
Finally available from the festival circuit, this riveting film based on the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book by Isabella Leitner, recounts the true story of a young Hungarian Jew and her sisters interned in Auschwitz, their struggle to survive, and their daring escape from a death march to Bergen Belsen. In 1944, Isabella and her family were arrested and deported by cattlecar to Auschwitz where they encountered Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called "Angel of Death." He condemned Isabella's mother and youngest sister to death "by a flip of his thumb," but Isabella, her brother and three remaining sisters were spared to suffer until their miraculous escape. The leit-motif of this extraordinary film is love not hate, the love that sustained Isabella and her sisters through the horrors of the Holocaust. As performed by the luminous Gabrielle Reidy of Dublin's Abbey Theater, this is a lyrical testament to the soul of a young woman yearning to transcend her fate. Isabella Leitner is available for speaking engagements College Adult
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World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Michael Scott, Ronan O'Leary, 1959-
Author / Creator
Ronan O'Leary, 1959-
Date Published / Released
1996
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Antisemitism, Deportation, Emotions and feelings, Family, Internment camps, Jewish people, Massacres, Holocaust, 1939-1945, Family and Culture, Race and Gender, Religion and Belief Systems, War and Violence, World History, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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In the Name of the Emperor
directed by Christine Choy, 1953-; produced by Christine Choy, 1953- and Nancy Tong (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1997), 53 mins
This is the only American documentary film to examine the Rape of Nanjing, December 13, 1937, when the Japanese Imperial troops marched into this city in China. In just six weeks they murdered 300,000 civilians, and systematically raped and killed thousands of women. Today, the Japanese government continues to den...
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directed by Christine Choy, 1953-; produced by Christine Choy, 1953- and Nancy Tong (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1997), 53 mins
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This is the only American documentary film to examine the Rape of Nanjing, December 13, 1937, when the Japanese Imperial troops marched into this city in China. In just six weeks they murdered 300,000 civilians, and systematically raped and killed thousands of women. Today, the Japanese government continues to deny it ever happened. In the Name of the Emperor is a monument to the suffering of the Chinese at the hands of the Japanese during World...
This is the only American documentary film to examine the Rape of Nanjing, December 13, 1937, when the Japanese Imperial troops marched into this city in China. In just six weeks they murdered 300,000 civilians, and systematically raped and killed thousands of women. Today, the Japanese government continues to deny it ever happened. In the Name of the Emperor is a monument to the suffering of the Chinese at the hands of the Japanese during World War II. It weaves together rare footage of the Japanese occupation, diary entries from Americans who were there, and the eyewitness accounts of surviving Japanese soldiers. Especially unique is the newly discovered film footage of the massacre shot by John McGee, an American missionary who was living in Nanjing. This footage was part of the testimony at the war crimes trial, but has never been seen until now. The Nanjing Massacre was the impetus for the Japanese system of "comfort stations" or military brothels in occupied territories to stem the tide of venereal disease. Included is an interview with a Korean "comfort woman" who speaks openly about her sexual servitude. These war crimes continues to disrupt diplomatic relations between Japan, the Philippines, Korea and Taiwan to this day. The horrors captured in this ground-breaking documentary reminds us of the exploitation and suffering of women, and indeed all civilians during war time. There are frightening parallels to the atrocities committed in Bosnia and Rwanda today. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Christine Choy, 1953-, Nancy Tong
Author / Creator
Christine Choy, 1953-
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Nanking Massacre (1937-1938), Invasions, Massacres, Military occupation, Soldiers, War crimes, History curriculums, War, Sexual assault, Nanking Massacre, 1937-1938, War and Violence, History, Documentation of Crimes, World History, Japanese, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Nanjing Nightmares
directed by Guo Fangfang; produced by Murray MacDonald, Gerald B. Sperling and Chi Jinjun (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 2000), 49 mins
The Japanese subjugation of the capital of China in 1937-38 has been called "The Rape of Nanjing" or the "Nanjing Atrocity." It is considered one of the most brutal, sadistic acts of war in modern history and caused psychological repercussions to succeeding generations of Chinese. This documentary recounts the his...
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directed by Guo Fangfang; produced by Murray MacDonald, Gerald B. Sperling and Chi Jinjun (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 2000), 49 mins
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The Japanese subjugation of the capital of China in 1937-38 has been called "The Rape of Nanjing" or the "Nanjing Atrocity." It is considered one of the most brutal, sadistic acts of war in modern history and caused psychological repercussions to succeeding generations of Chinese. This documentary recounts the historical events leading up to the terrifying occupation: the growth of China’s capital city, Nanjing; the expansionist ambitions of Ja...
The Japanese subjugation of the capital of China in 1937-38 has been called "The Rape of Nanjing" or the "Nanjing Atrocity." It is considered one of the most brutal, sadistic acts of war in modern history and caused psychological repercussions to succeeding generations of Chinese. This documentary recounts the historical events leading up to the terrifying occupation: the growth of China’s capital city, Nanjing; the expansionist ambitions of Japan; and the large Japanese army, intent on revenge after meeting fierce resistance by the Chinese army in the defense of Shanghai. Archival film footage depicts the full horror of the genocide in Nanjing, in which some 300,000 people were killed and 80,000 women were raped, in a one month period. These distant wartime events take on a deeper meaning when the film focuses on the effect the occupation had on one Nanjing family, the Wangs. Wang Ping recounts how his father and mother survived the war by hiding in the International Safety Zone set up by the American and German embassies. However, the terror his mother experienced during the Japanese occupation and the sadness caused by the loss of several family members, affected her so severely that she became mentally ill. Her granddaughter speaks movingly about how this depression affects her family even today. A great-grandson remembers his great-grandmother looking under the bed for "Japanese devils" every night before bedtime. The mental anguish caused by the Rape of Nanjing has lasted for sixty-four years and continues today. NOTE: This film contains graphic images of war victims. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Murray MacDonald, Gerald B. Sperling, Chi Jinjun
Author / Creator
Guo Fangfang
Date Published / Released
2000, 2001
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Nanking Massacre (1937-1938), Invasions, Massacres, Mental illnesses, Military occupation, Refugees, Sexual assault, Soldiers, War crimes, History curriculums, War, Nanking Massacre, 1937-1938, War and Violence, History, Documentation of Crimes, Origins, World History, Japanese, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Searching for Wallenberg
directed by Robert L. Kimmel, fl. 2002; produced by Robert L. Kimmel, fl. 2002, Intrepid Documentaries, Inc (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002, originally published 2002), 59 mins
Searching for Wallenberg tells the legendary story of Raoul Wallenberg, who as a Swedish diplomat in Budapest in 1944, saved tens of thousands of Jews from Nazi deportations and certain death. He accomplished this through intimidation, manipulation and sheer courage.
Just before the liberation of Budapest by the...
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directed by Robert L. Kimmel, fl. 2002; produced by Robert L. Kimmel, fl. 2002, Intrepid Documentaries, Inc (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002, originally published 2002), 59 mins
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Searching for Wallenberg tells the legendary story of Raoul Wallenberg, who as a Swedish diplomat in Budapest in 1944, saved tens of thousands of Jews from Nazi deportations and certain death. He accomplished this through intimidation, manipulation and sheer courage.
Just before the liberation of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, in 1945, Wallenberg disappeared. Arrested as a suspected spy, Wallenberg became one of the first victims of the Cold W...
Searching for Wallenberg tells the legendary story of Raoul Wallenberg, who as a Swedish diplomat in Budapest in 1944, saved tens of thousands of Jews from Nazi deportations and certain death. He accomplished this through intimidation, manipulation and sheer courage.
Just before the liberation of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, in 1945, Wallenberg disappeared. Arrested as a suspected spy, Wallenberg became one of the first victims of the Cold War and Stalin's paranoia. He was taken to the notorious Lubianka prison in Moscow, where he spent most of the next two and a half years. On July 17, 1947, in what became one of the biggest mysteries of the twentieth century, he vanished. Over the past half-century, the efforts of his powerful family and the Swedish and American governments failed to produce satisfactory answers to their queries about Wallenberg's fate.
Both a historical documentary and a revealing investigation, this film contains newly discovered archival material and exclusive interviews with witnesses from the former U.S.S.R. who claim to have seen Wallenberg in the Soviet Gulag years after the Soviets officially declared him dead. Produced in association with The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Robert L. Kimmel, fl. 2002, Intrepid Documentaries, Inc, Bernard Hammelburg
Author / Creator
Robert L. Kimmel, fl. 2002
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Speaker / Narrator
Bernard Hammelburg
Person Discussed
Raoul Wallenberg, 1912-1947
Topic / Theme
Deportation, Inner city ghettos, Identification documents, International relations, Internment camps, Massacres, Missing persons, Prisoners, Refugees, War crimes, Holocaust, 1939-1945, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Son of the Olive Merchant
directed by Mathieu Zeitindjioglou, fl. 1998; produced by Zfilms (Beverly Hills, CA: Choices, Inc., 2011), 1 hour 20 mins
For their honeymoon, Anna and Mathieu traveled to Turkey with their camera in hand to learn about Mathieu’s Armenian heritage and to learn what modern day Turks think about the Armenian Genocide that occurred in 1915. Sadly, Turkey denies the Genocide for a variety of reasons including that the crimes was actua...
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directed by Mathieu Zeitindjioglou, fl. 1998; produced by Zfilms (Beverly Hills, CA: Choices, Inc., 2011), 1 hour 20 mins
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For their honeymoon, Anna and Mathieu traveled to Turkey with their camera in hand to learn about Mathieu’s Armenian heritage and to learn what modern day Turks think about the Armenian Genocide that occurred in 1915. Sadly, Turkey denies the Genocide for a variety of reasons including that the crimes was actually committed by Armenians against the Turks. Using footage from their trip mixed with interviews, news footage, historical documents...
For their honeymoon, Anna and Mathieu traveled to Turkey with their camera in hand to learn about Mathieu’s Armenian heritage and to learn what modern day Turks think about the Armenian Genocide that occurred in 1915. Sadly, Turkey denies the Genocide for a variety of reasons including that the crimes was actually committed by Armenians against the Turks. Using footage from their trip mixed with interviews, news footage, historical documents and animation, this documentary emerges into one of the most powerful films ever made about the Armenian Genocide.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Zfilms, Patrick Floersheim, fl. 1974-2009
Author / Creator
Mathieu Zeitindjioglou, fl. 1998
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Choices, Inc.
Speaker / Narrator
Patrick Floersheim, fl. 1974-2009
Topic / Theme
Massacres, Armenian people, Turkish people, World War I, 1914-1918, Armenian Massacre, Ottoman Empire, 1915-1916, War and Violence, World History, Africans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Witnesses
directed by Marcel Lozinsky; produced by Yolande Zauberman and Gerard De Verbizier (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1989), 27 mins
July 4, 1946. Kielce, Poland. A few Jewish survivors of Nazi camps had returned to rebuild their lives. Suddenly, a rumor went through the town that Jews were killing Christian children for their blood. A crowd gathered to vent the age-old hatred. In the massacre that followed, 42 Jews were killed and more gravely...
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directed by Marcel Lozinsky; produced by Yolande Zauberman and Gerard De Verbizier (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1989), 27 mins
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July 4, 1946. Kielce, Poland. A few Jewish survivors of Nazi camps had returned to rebuild their lives. Suddenly, a rumor went through the town that Jews were killing Christian children for their blood. A crowd gathered to vent the age-old hatred. In the massacre that followed, 42 Jews were killed and more gravely wounded. This "forgotten" episode is chillingly retold by the Polish people who were there. Some express horror but others seem indiff...
July 4, 1946. Kielce, Poland. A few Jewish survivors of Nazi camps had returned to rebuild their lives. Suddenly, a rumor went through the town that Jews were killing Christian children for their blood. A crowd gathered to vent the age-old hatred. In the massacre that followed, 42 Jews were killed and more gravely wounded. This "forgotten" episode is chillingly retold by the Polish people who were there. Some express horror but others seem indifferent. A miniature Shoah in its power to move audiences. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Yolande Zauberman, Gerard De Verbizier
Author / Creator
Marcel Lozinsky
Date Published / Released
1989
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Antisemitism, Assault and battery, Jewish people, Massacres, Local populations, Physical abuse, Polish people, Riots, Gossip, Violence, Kielce Pogrom, Poland, July 4, 1946, Family and Culture, Race and Gender, Religion and Belief Systems, War and Violence, Sociology, History, Origins, Documentation of Crimes,...
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Antisemitism, Assault and battery, Jewish people, Massacres, Local populations, Physical abuse, Polish people, Riots, Gossip, Violence, Kielce Pogrom, Poland, July 4, 1946, Family and Culture, Race and Gender, Religion and Belief Systems, War and Violence, Sociology, History, Origins, Documentation of Crimes, World History, Jews, Polish, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Zygielbojm’s Death
directed by Dzamila Ankiewicz; produced by Marek Nowowiejski (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 2000), 44 mins
Szmul Arthur Zygielbojm was a brilliant Polish Jew, an important member of Warsaw’s Jewish Bund in the years leading up to the Nazi occupation. In 1942 he was smuggled to Belgium, New York and London as the Jewish representative of the Polish Government-in-exile. His mission was to inform those governments of th...
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directed by Dzamila Ankiewicz; produced by Marek Nowowiejski (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 2000), 44 mins
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Szmul Arthur Zygielbojm was a brilliant Polish Jew, an important member of Warsaw’s Jewish Bund in the years leading up to the Nazi occupation. In 1942 he was smuggled to Belgium, New York and London as the Jewish representative of the Polish Government-in-exile. His mission was to inform those governments of the Nazi horrors in Poland. His extensive efforts to influence high ranking members of each government were futile. Frustrated, he consid...
Szmul Arthur Zygielbojm was a brilliant Polish Jew, an important member of Warsaw’s Jewish Bund in the years leading up to the Nazi occupation. In 1942 he was smuggled to Belgium, New York and London as the Jewish representative of the Polish Government-in-exile. His mission was to inform those governments of the Nazi horrors in Poland. His extensive efforts to influence high ranking members of each government were futile. Frustrated, he considered his efforts a failure. On May 12, 1943, one day after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ended, Zygielbojm committed suicide to shock the world out of its indifference. This tragic story is related by Zygielbojm’s brother Reuven, who travels to today’s Warsaw and London exploring the facts of Zygielbojm’s life and the significance of his death. Among those interviewed are Jan Karski, the famous "Messenger from Poland", and Marek Edelman, the doctor who organized the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. "The production uses stills, archival footage, as well as contemporary video to present the story. All are of very good to excellent quality." MC Journal; The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Marek Nowowiejski
Author / Creator
Dzamila Ankiewicz
Date Published / Released
2000, 2001
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Person Discussed
Szmul Zygielbojm, 1895-1943
Topic / Theme
Antisemitism, Deportation, Human rights, Humanitarian aid, Internment camps, Jewish people, Massacres, Refugees, Suicides, Holocaust, 1939-1945, Family and Culture, Race and Gender, Religion and Belief Systems, War and Violence, World History, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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