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The Nazis - Nazi War Crimes, Babi Yar - Lessons of History

סרט סובייטי על באבי יאר (Babi Yar), גיא ההריגה של יהודי קייב (Kiev), צוענים ושבויי מלחמה סובייטים.

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 50

Language : English

Is a documentary that depicts the role of Nazi collaborators during the Shoah who were complicit in the liquidation of Latvian and Lithuanian Jewry, i.e. the Litvak population, as well as their connection to present day war crimes issues.

Director : Richard Bloom, Karen Lynne

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 31

Language : English

The SS - A Warning of History, Death's Head

A documentary film about the SS unit "Death's Head"; first officer Eicke, training for abuse and murder, SS in Nazi propaganda, terror in Poland, Einsatzgruppen, July 1941: murders in the Pinsk area by SS cavaliers, murder of the Jews, 29.9.1941: Babi Yar massacre, 19.4.1943: Warsaw ghetto uprising, 1964: trial of Auschwitz criminals in Frankfurt. Includes archival photographs and film footage(some in colour), segments from propaganda films, interviews. Participants: prisoners from Auschwitz, witnesses to atrocities, Warsaw ghetto fighters, German clerk, SS member, German police, survivors.

Director : Stefan Brauburger, Friederike Dreykluft

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 49

Language : English

Out of the Forest

Documentary about Punar, a memorial in a forest near Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) where between 70 and 100 thousand people were shot during the Second World War, most of them Jews. Filmed in Punar and based on the testimonies of survivors and the diary of Kazimierz Sakowicz, a Polish journalist who lived in Punar during the time of the Nazi occupation and who was killed in the last days of the war. His diary was found by Dr Rachel Margolis, a Holocaust researcher from Vilna, who participates in the film. Some of the witnesses in the film miraculously survived the shootings and crawled out from under the pile of...

Director : לימור פנחסוב בן-יוסף, ירון כפתורי בן-יוסף

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 93

Language : Hebrew, Russian

My Time of Service

Director : Donna Schatz

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 11

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Final part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Liberation and Revenge’ completes the history of Auschwitz. As the end of the war approached, Auschwitz officers tried to hide the evidence of their crimes but were not completely successful. After liberation, survivors searched for their family and tried to return to their prewar homes, but former communities and neighbors did not always welcome them. As evidence of war crimes emerged, some senior SS officers were tried and convicted; others were allowed to resume their lives. Over 4 years, 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz and 1.1 million people died...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Fifth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Murder and Intrigue’ explores the web of international politics spun during the last nine months of 1944. By that spring, the Allies knew about Auschwitz and had the military capability to bomb it. Yet despite the pleas of Jewish leaders, the British and Americans decided not to bomb the railways or gas chambers. During the spring and summer, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz at a time when the killing machinery had been honed to perfection. That autumn saw a significant act of resistance in Auschwitz, when a group of Jewish...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Forth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Corruption’ reveals why Auschwitz was unique in the Nazi state as the only site that was both a concentration and an extermination camp. The reason was simple-money. At Auschwitz, the Nazis wanted to kill "useless mouths" instantly and work stronger prisoners to death as slave laborers in places like the nearby IG Farben factory. Meanwhile, the SS profited from the belongings of those they killed-so much so, that in the summer of 1943, an investigation was launched into corruption in the camp and the commandant was removed. Elsewhere, individuals and nations are...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution, part 3: Factories of Death.

Third part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Factories of Death’ examines the annihilation system that the Nazis spread throughout Europe, with Auschwitz as the hub. It tells why the first transport of Jewish men, women, and children interred at Drancy, outside Paris, were transported to Auschwitz in March 1942 and what happened to the children who were rounded up without their parents. Genocide is being perpetrated not only at Auschwitz, but also at other camps, such as Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor. In the final segment, Linda Ellerbee talks with Deborah Dwork, Rose Prof. of Holocaust History at Clark...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Second part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Orders and Initiatives’ highlights the crucial decision-making period of the Holocaust, encompassing the secret plans of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Reinhard Heydrich. At a conference at Wannsee in January 1942, the participants work toward finalizing their goal-the systematic genocide of an entire people. The first gas chambers are built at Auschwitz and the use of Zyklon B is developed. German doctors arrive to oversee each transport, deciding who should live and who should die. In the final segment, Linda Ellerbee talks with Claudia Koonz, prof. of...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

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