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Almost exactly 24 years ago I reviewed the documentary Into the Arms of Strangers that told the story of the Kindertransport, a group of projects involving ten thousand Jewish children whom kind-hearted people were able to transport to England from Hitler-dominated Europe just before World War Two erupted. Director James Hawes’s, film straddling two time …
The family of Rudolh Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz, ignore the horrific sounds of torture & death transpiring on the other side of the wall, nor are we ever shown the horrors of the other side.
True story of a Black scholar studies Nazism in Germany & Dalits in India because she believes that racism is not the only reason for Trayvon Martin’s death.
True story of a brave Catholic social worker who poses as a nurse in order to smuggle children out of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The true story of a Jewish teenager who finds shelter with an anti-Semitic Ukrainian family during the Nazi holocaust by keeping her identity secret.
True story of Jewish death camp survivor who fought boxing matches for Nazi’s amusement, and his post war search for his lover
There are a great many films dealing with anti-Semitism and the Holocaust readily available to watch this Thursday, April 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Many of them tell heroic stories of those who tried to save as many Jews as possible, calling to mind what Fred Rogers said when asked what to tell a child during …
An Afro-German girl in Nazi Germany facing scorn, yet loved by a Hitler Youth, is sent to a labor camp after protective her mother is arrested.
True story of how 13-year-old Fanny Ben Ami was put in charge of children fleeing from the Nazis through France to reach sanctuary in Switzerland.
French Canadian filmmaker writer-director François Girard, who gave us the exquisite The Red Violin in 1998, gives us another film in which a violin is important. Instead of transpiring over several centuries, this film spans the years from Hitler’s invasion of Poland to the night of a concert in 1951 to the 80s when a …