holocaust

"The Good Old Days" reveals startling new evidence of the inhumanity of recent twentieth century history and is published now as yet another irrefutable response to the revisionist historians who claim to doubt the historic truth of the Holocaust.

A special co-production of Yad VaShem, Israel Film Service, and Doko Video, this painful but vital memoriam traces the history of the Nazism from its earliest roots in Germany of 1918. Captures the horrors of Kristlenacht, Babi Yar, and the monstrous concentration camps, but also the heroism and bravery of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and the Jewish partisans who desperately tried to free their brethern. The film Displaced persons follows the progress of an "illegal" immigrant ship, the SS Fearless, which set out from Italy to Palestine. It speaks with eyewitness officials and surviving immigrants.

Loose-leaf notebook includes; CD-ROM, picture cards, Activity packages, overhead transparencies, online connections, young adult literature for reading circles, reproducibles, Rubric bank, assessments.

First staged in 1963, it stirred up more controversy and caused greater repercussions than any other postwar work. Based on Rolf Hochhuth's research into Vatican activities during World War II, the play's treatment of Pope Pius XII - the "deputy" of Christ on earth - and the Church during the Nazi persecution of the Jews made it the object of impassioned praise and violent denunciation.

The French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was inhabited by rough farmers of Huguenot descent. They knew a lot about religious persecution from their history. So during World War II when Hitler imposed his heinous laws and set out to arrest all Jews, this village would not stand for it.

Describes the active involvement of the individual Italians, the government and the military in saving the lives of many of the Jews in Italy, Yugoslavia, and the German-occupied south of France in 1942 and 1943.

Nazi Germany and Facist Italy were united in a "brutual friendship." Both had savage racial laws: both Hitler and Mussolini viciously denounced the 'Jewish menace'".

The neglected story of how the Italian people courageously expressed their basic humanity and goodness despite the Nazi opposiiton. Walter's youthful innocence died during the rioting of Kristallnacht.

A surprising and unprecedented history of the war in Italy from Mussolini's fall until the final victory. Chronicling an unbroken sequence of Nazi infamies, Lamb reveals how German troops massacred thousands of surrending Italians in the Aegean islands, deported Italian Jews to Auschwitz and slaughtered Italian hostages and POWs.

The core of this learning unit consists of photographs taken by German soldiers in the Warsaw ghetto These photographs (contained in the student workbook) capture a unique and little-known reality that evolved in the margin between life and death.