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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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Copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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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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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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The Accidental Hero: Oskar Schindler
directed by David Haggie; produced by David Haggie and Anna Laura Malago, CTVC and British Broadcasting Corporation (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1999, originally published 1997), 31 mins
This documentary on Oskar Schindler, the wartime rescuer of 1200 Jews, grapples with the moral ambiguity of a flawed hero. Schindler had joined the Nazi party early on and sympathized with their expansionist views. Personally, he was a gambler, adventurer, womanizer and drinker. How does such a person become the m...
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directed by David Haggie; produced by David Haggie and Anna Laura Malago, CTVC and British Broadcasting Corporation (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1999, originally published 1997), 31 mins
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This documentary on Oskar Schindler, the wartime rescuer of 1200 Jews, grapples with the moral ambiguity of a flawed hero. Schindler had joined the Nazi party early on and sympathized with their expansionist views. Personally, he was a gambler, adventurer, womanizer and drinker. How does such a person become the most significant savior of Jews during the war? High School College Adult
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
David Haggie, Anna Laura Malago, CTVC, British Broadcasting Corporation, Joan Bakewell
Author / Creator
David Haggie
Date Published / Released
1997, 1999
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Speaker / Narrator
Joan Bakewell
Person Discussed
Oskar Schindler, 1908-1974
Topic / Theme
Character traits, Infidelity, Internment camps, Jewish people, Refugees, Spies, Holocaust, 1939-1945, Religion and Belief Systems, Family and Culture, World History, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 1999. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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The Danish Solution
directed by Karen Cantor, fl. 2003 and Camilla Kjærulff, fl. 2003; produced by Karen Cantor, fl. 2003 and Camilla Kjærulff, fl. 2003, Singing Wolf Documentaries, Inc. (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2004), 59 mins
Sixty years ago the Final Solution was attempted in Denmark. The plan was averted, over 95 percent of the country's Jewish population survived the war. How and why Jews escaped the Nazis' blueprint for their extermination is the subject of this compelling new documentary film. Through the very human testimony of s...
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directed by Karen Cantor, fl. 2003 and Camilla Kjærulff, fl. 2003; produced by Karen Cantor, fl. 2003 and Camilla Kjærulff, fl. 2003, Singing Wolf Documentaries, Inc. (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2004), 59 mins
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Sixty years ago the Final Solution was attempted in Denmark. The plan was averted, over 95 percent of the country's Jewish population survived the war. How and why Jews escaped the Nazis' blueprint for their extermination is the subject of this compelling new documentary film. Through the very human testimony of survivors, the story of the Danish rescue is told with clarity, empathy and humor. Because what happened in Denmark has taken on legenda...
Sixty years ago the Final Solution was attempted in Denmark. The plan was averted, over 95 percent of the country's Jewish population survived the war. How and why Jews escaped the Nazis' blueprint for their extermination is the subject of this compelling new documentary film. Through the very human testimony of survivors, the story of the Danish rescue is told with clarity, empathy and humor. Because what happened in Denmark has taken on legendary proportions, the filmmakers have carefully researched the subject, separating the truths from the myths, such as that of the Danish King wearing the Yellow Star. In addition to the survivors' stories, the filmmakers have interviewed rescuers and scholars. From members of the resistance to ordinary people who helped when they saw a need, viewers will be introduced to courageous people who took action to save their threatened compatriots. The film points out the reasons why the Danish Jews were not treated as harshly by the Nazis as Jews elsewhere. This story is a fascinating chapter of Holocaust history. High School College Adult
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World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Karen Cantor, fl. 2003, Camilla Kjærulff, fl. 2003, Singing Wolf Documentaries, Inc., Garrison Keillor, 1942-
Author / Creator
Karen Cantor, fl. 2003, Camilla Kjærulff, fl. 2003
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Speaker / Narrator
Garrison Keillor, 1942-
Topic / Theme
Holocaust (1933-1945), Antisemitism, Cultural identity, Invasions, Jewish people, Military occupation, Refugees, History curriculums, German Invasion of Denmark, April 9, 1940, Holocaust, 1939-1945, Family and Culture, Race and Gender, Religion and Belief Systems, War and Violence, Sociology, History, Origins, Documentation of Crimes, World History, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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A Day in The Warsaw Ghetto
directed by Jack Kuper; produced by Jack Kuper (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1993, originally published 1991), 30 mins
No collection of films on the Holocaust can be considered complete without this haunting visual record of the infamous Warsaw Ghetto. One will never know why Wehrmacht Sergeant Heinz Joest decided to celebrate his 43rd birthday in 1941 by illegally photographing inside the ghetto, or why he kept the pictures hidde...
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directed by Jack Kuper; produced by Jack Kuper (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1993, originally published 1991), 30 mins
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No collection of films on the Holocaust can be considered complete without this haunting visual record of the infamous Warsaw Ghetto. One will never know why Wehrmacht Sergeant Heinz Joest decided to celebrate his 43rd birthday in 1941 by illegally photographing inside the ghetto, or why he kept the pictures hidden for some forty years until he knew he was dying. But this German soldier's images of the misery, and also the spirit, of its doomed i...
No collection of films on the Holocaust can be considered complete without this haunting visual record of the infamous Warsaw Ghetto. One will never know why Wehrmacht Sergeant Heinz Joest decided to celebrate his 43rd birthday in 1941 by illegally photographing inside the ghetto, or why he kept the pictures hidden for some forty years until he knew he was dying. But this German soldier's images of the misery, and also the spirit, of its doomed inhabitants form the core of Jack Kuper's extraordinary portrayal of humanity in a nightmare situation. The filmmaker, himself a Holocaust survivor, has done a masterful job combining Joest's pictures with a multi-voiced dramatic narration taken from hidden ghetto diaries. Yiddish songs, klezmer music, sound effects and skillful camera work heighten the impact. Stark images show life behind the ghetto walls. There are beggars with imploring grins, peddlers hawking arm-bands, scruffy urchins, emaciated musicians, and the occasional nattily dressed resident, probably a recent arrival. Though they live in unbearable circumstances, it is apparent that the people have not been completely stripped of their culture and identity. Illegal schools and prayer groups co-exist with disease and hunger. The diaries reveal a chord of humor running through the despair. A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto gives reality to an almost incomprehensible evil. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jack Kuper, Mike Kirby
Author / Creator
Jack Kuper
Date Published / Released
1991, 1993
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Speaker / Narrator
Mike Kirby
Topic / Theme
Antisemitism, Inner city ghettos, Human rights, Jewish people, Prisoners of war, 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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Copyright © 1993. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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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 is a startling new film which examines in detail how the French authorities arrested and interned more than 74,000 Jews before sending them to Auschwitz. Only 2,500 survived. Drancy explores the structure of the Holocaust in France: how the Nazis brought the French...
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directed by Stephen Trombley; produced by Bruce Eadie, Worldview Pictures Production (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996, originally published 1994), 54 mins
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Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris, 1941-1944 is a startling new film which examines in detail how the French authorities arrested and interned more than 74,000 Jews before sending them to Auschwitz. Only 2,500 survived. Drancy explores the structure of the Holocaust in France: how the Nazis brought the French police and gendarmerie under its control, ordering them to conduct massive round-ups of Jews in Paris and other cities; how the Vichy g...
Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris, 1941-1944 is a startling new film which examines in detail how the French authorities arrested and interned more than 74,000 Jews before sending them to Auschwitz. Only 2,500 survived. Drancy explores the structure of the Holocaust in France: how the Nazis brought the French police and gendarmerie under its control, ordering them to conduct massive round-ups of Jews in Paris and other cities; how the Vichy government instituted anti-Semitic laws, without pressure from the Germans; and how French authorities acted to divide the Jewish community, undermining resistance and streamlining the work of the Final Solution in France. Drancy includes interviews with survivors as well as with bystanders who were witnesses. Rare archival footage and photographs round out the documentary. After a 50 year silence, France is beginning to acknowledge its role in the fate of the Jews. This timely film shows why such re-examination is in order. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Bruce Eadie, Worldview Pictures Production
Author / Creator
Stephen Trombley
Date Published / Released
1994, 1996
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Antisemitism, Deportation, Internment camps, Jewish people, Prisoners, History curriculums, War, 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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Copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Finding Kalman
directed by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman; produced by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2010), 27 mins
How will we tell the story of the Holocaust when the survivors are gone? In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary, a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to connect to relatives they could never meet. Focusing on her brother Kalman, Anna recounts tales of a mischievous boy who tried...
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directed by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman; produced by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2010), 27 mins
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How will we tell the story of the Holocaust when the survivors are gone? In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary, a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to connect to relatives they could never meet. Focusing on her brother Kalman, Anna recounts tales of a mischievous boy who tried to escape the Warsaw ghetto with her.
Her daughter Roz, an artist, devours the stories and paints his portrait over and over again. A...
How will we tell the story of the Holocaust when the survivors are gone? In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary, a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to connect to relatives they could never meet. Focusing on her brother Kalman, Anna recounts tales of a mischievous boy who tried to escape the Warsaw ghetto with her.
Her daughter Roz, an artist, devours the stories and paints his portrait over and over again. As Kalman's face emerges on canvas, the film travels back and forth in time from archival Warsaw ghetto footage to summers in a Catskills bungalow colony, from vibrant family life before World War II to today.
Four generations grapple differently with their shared history. In spite of parental attempts to shield their children from the horrors, Roz grew up entangled in her mother’s pain. Maya, an Israeli-born granddaughter, expresses her life’s passion by playing the viola. Performing with Arab and Israeli youth, she questions why there has to be war when she finds natural ease in making music with someone she’s told should be her enemy. Maya performs the original music composed for the film. Eleven-year-old great-grandson Roy wonders with concern how the members of his generation will understand the Holocaust when it seems like just another story. Anna, a survivor, lives with her pain, while never losing her commitment to living life to the fullest.
As the loving family that grew from two survivors celebrates together, the film shows how four generations find light even in the darkest of places—with a resiliency that moves viewers to do the same.
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World History
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Documentary
Contributor
Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000, Laurie Weisman
Author / Creator
Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000, Laurie Weisman
Date Published / Released
2010, 2011
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Fine arts, Blessings, Brothers, War casualties, Family separation, Inner city ghettos, Grandparents, Memories, Paintings, Photography, Portraits, Refugees, Holocaust, 1939-1945, Family and Culture, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Where Birds Don't Sing: The Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps
directed by Rosemarie Reed; produced by Rosemarie Reed (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2011), 27 mins
Where Birds Don’t Sing chronicles the horrifying stories of Ravensbruck and Sachsenhausen, two concentration camps in the Third Reich. Ravensbruck is located in Furstenberg, a quiet town north of Berlin. Not far from the center of the village stood the tall, concrete building surrounded by barbed wire, which ser...
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directed by Rosemarie Reed; produced by Rosemarie Reed (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2011), 27 mins
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Where Birds Don’t Sing chronicles the horrifying stories of Ravensbruck and Sachsenhausen, two concentration camps in the Third Reich. Ravensbruck is located in Furstenberg, a quiet town north of Berlin. Not far from the center of the village stood the tall, concrete building surrounded by barbed wire, which served as the largest concentration camp for women in the German Reich.
Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp located in Oranienburg, al...
Where Birds Don’t Sing chronicles the horrifying stories of Ravensbruck and Sachsenhausen, two concentration camps in the Third Reich. Ravensbruck is located in Furstenberg, a quiet town north of Berlin. Not far from the center of the village stood the tall, concrete building surrounded by barbed wire, which served as the largest concentration camp for women in the German Reich.
Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp located in Oranienburg, also outside Berlin. It was the first camp to be built after Heinrich Himmler was put in charge of the German police in July of 1936. Sachsenhausen was built to express the worldview of the SS through its architecture and to symbolically subdue the prisoners to its absolute power. When the administrative department responsible for all concentration camps moved from Berlin to Oranienburg, the camp took on a prominent position within the system. Between 1936 and 1945, more than 200,000 people were imprisoned there. At first the prisoners were political opponents of the National Socialist regime; then came the people declared to be racially or biologically inferior. From 1939 onward, an increasing numbers of citizens from occupied European countries were transported to the camp. Where Birds Don’t Sing shares the truth of the prisoners’ mistreatment and ends with a moving reunion of the survivors of both camps.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Rosemarie Reed, Jill Eikenberry, 1947-
Author / Creator
Rosemarie Reed
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Speaker / Narrator
Jill Eikenberry, 1947-
Topic / Theme
Internment camps, Medical treatments and procedures, Physical abuse, Prison labor, Prostitutes, Torture, Holocaust, 1939-1945, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2011 by On the Road Productions International, Inc.
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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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A Jewish Journey
directed by David Charap (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 2001), 59 mins
This film focuses on a group from a Jewish congregation in New Jersey who journey to eastern Europe in search of their Jewish past. No one expected a light-hearted vacation, but each felt it was important to make this connection to their Jewish heritage. Trips such as theirs have become big business in Czechoslova...
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directed by David Charap (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 2001), 59 mins
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This film focuses on a group from a Jewish congregation in New Jersey who journey to eastern Europe in search of their Jewish past. No one expected a light-hearted vacation, but each felt it was important to make this connection to their Jewish heritage. Trips such as theirs have become big business in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. Tour guides, travel agents, hotels, souvenir vendors and the like are profiting from the interest in the Holoc...
This film focuses on a group from a Jewish congregation in New Jersey who journey to eastern Europe in search of their Jewish past. No one expected a light-hearted vacation, but each felt it was important to make this connection to their Jewish heritage. Trips such as theirs have become big business in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. Tour guides, travel agents, hotels, souvenir vendors and the like are profiting from the interest in the Holocaust. Even "Schindler's List tours" are proliferating. Yet despite such commercialism, this pilgrimage was deeply meaningful for the group we follow. As they visit the Old Jewish Cemetery, the ghetto of Terezin, the Tahani Synagogue in Budapest, and the extermination camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau - the impact is more searing than they anticipated. Many come away with a deeper commitment to the state of Israel and to their own identity as Jews. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
David Charap
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Cultural identity, International travel, Internment camps, Jewish people, Museums, Synagogues, Tourist attractions, Travelers, Holocaust, 1939-1945, Family and Culture, Religion and Belief Systems, World History, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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