This documentary tells the moving story of Anna, today an 82 year old woman and how she managed to survive this death camp despite her handicap. For the hearing, Auschwitz is characterized as a place of horrible sounds; shouted commands, screaming, shooting and cries of torture. For the deaf, the terror was silent.
Germany, 1939. At the outbreak of war, Hitler authorizes a programme of mass-murder targeting the nation's disabled people, transporting them from institutions to killing centres. Elise is a patient who sweeps the institution. She doesn't speak and staff assume she doesn't understand. But she watches everything. She watches buses full of patients leave and return empty. When it's her turn, she knows what's in store. Incarcerated, what hope can there be? Based on real events, this is the story of one woman's resistance, in the only way she could.
Perla, a dwarf, is the last living member of a Jewish family of dwarfs that survived Dr. Mengele’s experiments in Auschwitz. She remembers that the Nazis documented her family on film, and dreams of finding the lost reel. Hannelore, a Christian dwarf born in postwar Germany, wants to help Perla fulfill her dream. As she conducts her search, Hannelore notices startling similarities between the Nazi’s goal of creating a perfect society and the “murder” of embryos and babies today, when they are diagnosed as having abnormalities. This story of the friendship between two very short women raises questions of birth...
3 programs in the tape:
1. Nur Einer von Vierzig - Ein SS Arzt und der Befehlsnotstand in Auschwitz (58 min, Paul Moor and Navina Sundaram, NDR, 1981, German).
2. Buecher Report - Das Magazin der Neuerscheinungen (43 min, TV discussion, German).
3. Die Tat und Die Taeter ( 46 min, Lea Rosh, ZDF, 1982, German).
This Oscar nominated documentary serves not only as a remembrance but a lesson and a warning for the future. It follows the plight of Europe’s Jews during the terrifying period from 1933 until the final defeat of the Third Reich in 1945. Never before had the world seen such contempt for human life on such a grand scale, the murder of an estimated 6 million Jews, with countless others persecuted. During the 1930s a wave of national fervour swept through a tumultuous Germany; people looked for answers, and the politicians were all too willing to point the finger of blame towards the Jewish population. Few, if any,...
Documentary film that deals with the place of the medical system in Nazi Germany in the extermination apparatus. Filmed in Germany, Austria, Poland, and Russia, the film includes archival photographs, expert commentary, interviews with survivors of euthanasia operations and present-day photographs of locations where the events took place.
Educational documentary film based on archival films and original audio recordings. The film surveys the historic struggle of the Jewish nation and its persecution in the Shoah; Hitler, antisemitism, the First World War, the Nazi party, racism, euthanasia, Kristallnacht, the outbreak of the Second World War, "The Final Solution", concentration and death camps, Anne Frank, liberation, surrender of Germany, Nuremberg Trials, repercussions of the annihilation of the Jews of Europe.
Episode in the documentary series dealing with medicine and science in Nazi Germany. This episode deals with enhancing racial purity. Within the Nazi regime, the doctors comprised the largest group of officers. Their mission was to enhance racial purity. The budget increased ten-fold. From March 1933 Jewish doctors were evicted from their posts. Every doctor who worked in a public institution had to be a member of the Nazi party.
Episode in the series about medicine and science in Nazi Germany. This episode deals with mercy killings and medical experiments. From 1933 onwards doctors in Germany were dealing with issues of mercy killings in order to create a superior race. Mental patients from all over Germany were brought to centers and their organs were collected for research purposes. Doctors lied to the patients about what would happen and after their death, informed the families that they had died from other maladies. These same doctors later worked in the concentration camps in Poland and continued their experiments on prisoners....
Second episode in a documentary series produced by the German television network ZDF that deals with the destruction of Europe's Jews. The 6-part series surveys the process that led to "The Final Solution" and the ways it was executed through archival films that were discovered in archives in Eastern Europe, testimonies, and analysis of historians. The series title Holokaust, is written intentionally with the letter K instead of C in accordance with German script in order to remind viewers that the murder of Europe's Jews was carried out by the Germans. This episode deals with the decision making process that...
