In this documentary, experts reveal photographs, films, documents, and artifacts that tell the story of how the Holocaust evolved from the early days of persecution in Nazi Germany to the systematic destruction of millions of people. These remnants the blueprint for a crematorium, a propaganda-filled childrens book, official guidelines for classifying prisoners, bullets and the rings of victims unearthed from a mass grave, and more help complete the picture of what it took to plan and implement the eradication of an entire race.
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...
סרט מקור קצר. מתוך סדרת מקור של יד ושם הכוללת ראיונות קצרים עם ניצולי שואה.. פרק זה עוסק בשאלה האם ניצול שואה יכול אי פעם להשתחרר מאושוויץ, מה קרה לנפש האדום באושוויץ? מה היו האירועים המכוננים במחנה? כיצד ניתן לתאר מערכות יחסים בין האסירים, אם היו כאלה.
סרט מתוך הסדרה "הסיפור שלנו - רוח האדם בשואה" המספרים את סיפורם של ניצולי שואה. יהודית יגרמן נולדה בשנת 1929 בקרלובי וארי בצ'כוסלובקיה. בשנת 1939 נשלחה היא ובני משפחתה לגטו טרזינשטט ו-16 חודשים לאחר מכן הם נשלחו לאושוויץ. אמה של יהודית, שהייתה אישה רוחנית ודתיה, עודדה ושמרה עליה במשך כל אותה תקופה.
A play. The story of Zdenka Fantlova, a Holocaust survivor. She was born in the Czech Republic, in 1922.
Her life was turned upside-down with the outbreak of World War Two and the subsequent German invasion of her homeland. The enforcement of the Nuremburg rules – the separation of the Jews from the Czechs – meant that she was required to wear a yellow star on her left side at all times. Her schooling taken away from her, she begged her father to allow her to go to Prague to learn English. Despite being taken to six different concentration camps throughout the war, she survived, keeping her tin engagement...
A television program. Robert 'Judge' Rinder follows the story of his grandfather, Moses/Moris Maliniczky, a Holocaust survivor, hearing testimony of the horror of Nazi forced labour camps as well as of the hope offered by a new life in Lake Windermere. Investigating the mystery surrounding his great-grandfather, Israel Medalmeyer, leads Robert to a small town in Latvia, where he uncovers a story of mental illness and trauma which will lay some ghosts to rest.