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Trailer. This documentary. In the spring of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was almost over, and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Late that night, they walked down to the village, where 180 enslaved Jewish laborers waited, made them strip naked, and shot them all, before returning to the bright lights of the party deals with the lost Jewish community of Rechnitz. The futile attempts to locate the mass grave of this community, which finally...

Director : Eduard Erne, Margareta Heinrich

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 15

Language : English

Neither Memory Nor Magic - The Life and Times of Miklos Radnoti

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...

Director : Hugo Perez

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 70

Language : English

Radnóty

Director : Eduard Schreiber

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 16

Language : German, Hungarian

A Wall of Silence

This documentary. In the spring of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was almost over, and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Late that night, they walked down to the village, where 180 enslaved Jewish laborers waited, made them strip naked, and shot them all, before returning to the bright lights of the party deals with the lost Jewish community of Rechnitz. The futile attempts to locate the mass grave of this community, which finally came true...

Director : Eduard Erne, Margareta Heinrich

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 87

Language : German, Hebrew

Exposition Gare St Lazare

This television report takes place in a train station in France and deals with the subject of children who were sent to the camps by train. An interview with Serge Klarsfeld and Edouard Drommelschlager follows the report.

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 37

Language : French

Station of Pain

Short drama which won critical acclaim in Europe for the haunting story it tells. The story focuses on the new stationmaster at Bobigny - train statoin from which Jews of Paris were herded onto freight trains that bore them to death camps. In a midnight encounter with a survivor who comes to mourn, the stationmaster learns that the mysterious sounds which wake him in the night are sounds of the roundup, echoing through the decades.

Director : Henri Jouf

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 25

Language : French

The Nazis - A Warning From History - Part 5 - The Road To Treblinka

Fifth part in a BBC documentary series that surveys the history of the Nazis in Germany. The series was produced with the aid of British historian Ian Kershaw and it includes eyewitness testimony, expert analysis, archival films and photographs that were discovered in the countries of the former communist bloc in Europe and are presented here for the first time. This part focuses on the Treblinka death camp, deals with "The Final Solution" and describes the transports of Jews to the death camps and the methods of murder.

Director : Tilman Remme, Laurence Rees

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 50

Language : English