holocaust

Thirteen year old Korinna, a member of a Nazi youth group, discovers her parents are hiding Jews behind the wall of her bedroom.

Based on the testimony of survivors of the Holocaust.

When she turned thirteen years old, Anne received a gift that would change her life: a personal diary. In it, she expressed her desires, fears and hopes while living in confinement with her family during World War II. After the war, despite her early death, her diary became a shocking testimony about the persecution of Jewish people, and an invaluable contribution to the fight for human rights.

A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event the Holocaust.

For more than twenty-five years the March of the Living in Poland has brought together survivors and students from all over the world to ensure that firsthand accounts of the Holocaust are not lost. As they walk through concentration camps, ghettos, and towns depleted of Jewish communities, a special bond forms as the original witnesses to the Holocaust pass their mantle to a new generation whose task it is to remember what they hear and see. Although Jews were the largest group slated for extermination, the Nazis also killed those who differed with Nazi beliefs: trade unionists, Communists, homosexuals, Roma (gypsies), Russian POW's, and the disabled. But the Jewish people alone were ultimately subjected to the goal of total annihilation.

Recounts the adventures of a young Jewish boy who is driven from his home by the German invasion, becomes a refugee in the Soviet Union, is separated from his family, and undergoes many hardships before enjoying a normal home again.

Jo has spent most of the war waiting and praying-waiting for the war to end and praying for the end to come quickly. Living in Lescun, France, Jo had thought he might escape the worst of the war. But things change when the Germans decide to set up an outpost right in town. Jo alone knows of another outpost-a reclusive widow's farm high in the hills.It is an escape point for growing band of Jewish children.

Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissman Klein takes us on a journey of survival through one of the most devastating events in the history of humankind.

Nine-year-old Helen is confused by the disappearance of her Jewish friend during the German occupation of Paris.