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.

From the Middle East, to Moscow, to Hitler's death camps, the members of the Henry family face grave danger as they fight in the Second World War.