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He was known as a Warsaw ghetto smuggler, then as Comandante Enrico. He traveled under false identity papers and worked at a German border patrol station. Throughout the years of the Holocaust, Hermann Wygoda lived a life of narrow escapes, daring masquerades, and battles that almost defy reason.

In Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, poor Jewish cafe owner Jakob Heym accidently overhears a forbidden radio news bulletin signaling Soviet military successes against German forces. To combat the overwhelming depression and suicide that pervades the ghetto, Jakob invents fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances against the Nazis. These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants - spirits are lifted, hearts are refreshed, and optimism is reborn. The Germans learn of the mythical radio and begin a search for the resistance hero who dares operate it.

On November 8, 1942, Nazi soldiers rounded up the Jews living in a shtetl, a small village, in Bransk, Poland, and ordered the town's farmers to provide horse wagons to transport them to a nearby train station. Within 24 hours, 2500 Jews from Bransk died in Treblinka's gas chambers. Their shtetl died with them. A haunting account of the tragedy and its legacy emerges as townspeople from Bransk and Polish Americans, both Jew and Gentile, share their pohotographs and stories. Today in Bransk there are no Jews and many residents choose to forget. Interviews in America with immigrants from Bransk create a vivid portrait of a lost community and continuing conflict over who should take responsibility.

In 1941, the German army invaded the small town of Eishyshok, Poland (now Lithuania) and brutally murdered nearly all 3,500 Jewish residents. Fifty-six years after the massacre, There Once Was a Town chronicles the remarkable journey of four of the town's survivors and their families as they return home.

Based on a true story; Kellie Martin and Marion Ross star in this inspiring tale of a young Polish girl who hides a Jewish family from the Nazis during the war.

A biography of the Polish friar canonized in 1982, who founded the Militia of the Immaculate, wrote numerous periodicals and newspapers, and while imprisoned in Auschwitz, sacrificed his life for another man.

The first eyewitness report of the Holocaust to record the horror of the camps from their inception in 1941 to liberation. Considered one of the definitive books on Auschwitz.

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

A brief biography focusing on the youth of the scientist who twice received the Nobel Prize for her work with radium.