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A mono-drama. The story of Yan Karski. He stated that all he can says is that he saw it, and it was the truth. Karski was a reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness. After surviving the Blitzkrieg, Karski swor allegiance to the Polish Underground and risked his life to carry the first eyewitness reports of war-torn Poland to the Western world, and ultimately, the Oval Office. Karski ecaped a Gestapo prison, and beared witness to the despair of the Warsaw ghetto and confronted by the inhumanity of a death camp, Karski endured mental anguish and physical torture to stand tall in the halls of power and...

Director : Derek Goldman, Jeff Hutchens

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 95

Language : English

32 Classified Pages - The Report from Hell

A documentary film. In April 1944, the least known great escape of WW2 took place. Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, Slovak Jews, succeeded in escaping from the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, with help of the camp underground, and overcoming difficulties and dangers they reach Žilina, Slovakia. There, before the heads of the Jewish community, they testify about the extermination of the Jews in the camp. Their written testimony becomes the "Auschwitz Protocol of Vrba and Wetzler." The protocol that reaches the Vatican, the Allies, and is even partly broadcast on BBC radio, encountered distrust,...

Director : Jan Novák

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 62

Language : Czech