Featured playlist: Clips for College: Holocaust by Jordan White, Alexander Street Press
One of the darkest periods in human history, the Holocaust was the mass murder of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a systematic program of genocide conducted by the Nazi regime in Germany led by Adolph Hitler. [Warning: Graphic images - viewer discretion is advised.]
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Messengers Without An Audience
produced by AVA Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 53 mins
Messengers Without An Audience - A gripping documentary about the heroism of a handful of eyewitnesses who brought the first devastating reports about the Nazi atrocities to the West.
53:20
26 Jul 2013
Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris, 1941-1944
directed by Stephen Trombley; produced by Bruce Eadie, Worldview Pictures Production (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996, originally published 1994), 54 mins
Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris, 1941-1944 - This film examines the "Final Solution" in France, outlining how French authorities themselves in both Paris and Vichy arrested and interned more than 74,000 Jews before eventually turning them over to the Nazis and sending the prisoners to Auschwitz, Poland.
53:57
26 Jul 2013
Modus Operandi: The German Occupation of Belgium
directed by Hugues Lanneau; produced by Willy Perelsztejn, fl. 2011 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2011), 1 hour 38 mins
Modus Operandi: The German Occupation of Belgium - This documentary investigates the sequence of events wherein 25,000 Jewish men, women, and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz, Poland from 1942-1944. Here the "Final Solution" was carried out, despite the presence of only a handful of Nazi soldiers, working in concert with Belgian authorities and the Belgian population.
01:38:16
26 Jul 2013
Heroes of World War II, 8, The Men Who Liberated Belsen
directed by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010; produced by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010, in Heroes of World War II, 8 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2003, originally published 2003), 24 mins
The Men Who Liberated Belsen - This documentary retells the story of the British soldiers who discovered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 in Northern Germany with real footage of the camp and its prisoners.
23:42
26 Jul 2013
Holocaust - Bergen-Belsen
directed by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010; produced by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010, in Heroes of World War II, 8 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2003, originally published 2003), 24 mins
This clip shows visual footage of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, describing in detail the conditions experienced there until 1945.
02:57
17 Jul 2013
Holocaust - Auschwitz
directed by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010; produced by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010, in Greatest Escapes of History, 5 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2003, originally published 2003), 24 mins
This clip outlines Auschwitz' early history as a concentration camp and work camp, priot to its evolution as the extermination camp that became perhaps the symbol of the terror of the Holocaust.
02:49
17 Jul 2013
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