In 1933 Berlin Bishop Joachim Hossenfelder proclaimed the popular, pro-Nazi “German Christian” movement the “Storm Troopers of Christ.” Hossenfelder led the early phase of a movement that still echoes through the church today, even though the world has tried to forget.
In the spring of 1946, a mass grave was unearthed in the Hungarian village of Abda. Twenty-two decayed bodies were found sprawled in the pit. One of the bodies found in the grave was that of the poet Miklos Radnoti, shot into the grave by Hungarian fascists eighteen months earlier. Found in the front pocket of his coat was a small notebook soaked in his bodily fluids. It was laid out to dry in the sunlight and when examined later revealed the poets last poems carefully handwritten onto the ruled lines of the notebook. In the so-called Bor Notebook, Radnoti, through poetry, told the story of the last six months...
Short documentary film produced by Ramat Gan Community Television. The story of Zeev Hirshberg, a Holocaust survivor who was born in Berlin to an assimilated German-Jewish family.
This film presents the paradox faced by German Jews: the desire to belong to German society in which they played a major role, in contrast to the pain of their ultimate rejection by the Germans.
Through the story of David Oppenheim, a Jewish Austrian scholar, a collaborator then critic of Freud and participant in Viennese psychoanalytic circles that died in Theresienstadt, this documentary tells of the tragedy of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust.