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Decoding Nazi secrets

1999
A rare look at the Nazi military secrets of World War II. This is the first fully detailed account of the greatest code breaking coup of all time.

Fallen leaves

stories of the Holocaust and the partisans
1981
Steeped in rivers of Jewish blood and tears, this book is a triumph of the spirit for it reveals that the tortured and murdered Jews were not passive, inert and resigned victims of fate, but rather men, women and children full of the verve and courage of life. In their lives and in their deaths they rose to a transcendent level of heroism and supreme self-sacrifice.

Holocaust on trial

2000
British historian and author David Irving claims the Holocaust is a myth. This film reconstructs the dramatic courtroom proceedings as Irving defends himself, and Hitler's Nazi atrocities, in a libel suit against the accusers. This film explains the motives of those who continue to deny history.

The Nazis Vol. 1

the acclaimed BBC documentary collection
1997
Recently discovered documents and archival footage, along with riveting eyewitness accounts help shed new light on the Nazi regime in this difinitive history of Hitler's Third Reich.

Isabella : from Auschwitz to freedom

1994
In one of the most soul-stirring and inspiring memoirs of the Holocaust ever written, Isabella (Katz) Leitner describes the deportation of her family to Auschwitz and their year-long imprisonment in one of the death camps in Nazi Germany. Isabella's youngest sister and mother are sent to their deaths upon arrival. For the remaining members of the Katz family, each day becomes a desperate endeavor to survive, as the four sisters struggle fiercely to buoy each other's spirits and strength.

Into the arms of strangers

stories of the Kindertransport
2001
In the months before World War II, an extraordinary rescue operation aided the youngest victims of Nazi terror. Ten-thousand Jewish and other children were transported from German-held lands to foster homes and hostels in Great Britain.

Night and fog

stark portrait of the Nazi death camps
1956
Hailed as one of the world's greatest documentaries, this has been called the definitive film on Nazi concentration camps and a devasting record of man's humanity to man. Brings the horror of the Holocaust to the present.

An American college girl in Hitler's Germany

a memoir
1999
To recall that "Hitler gave me a job when I was out of work" (rather than that "Hitler genocidally murdered 6 million Jews") seems a perverse falsification of history. This memoir of the 1930s is just such a falsification and, for this very reason, is naively truthful.

Maximilian Kolbe

Saint of Auschwitz
1997
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.

Maximilian Kolbe

1984
From the midst of the hate and horror of a Nazi concentration camp came a sterling example of what it means to lay down one's life for another. This true documentary/drama vividly profiles the life and heroic offering of the Franciscan Father Maximilian Kolbe. The actual acount of Father Kolbe's last days at Auschwitz is told by Francis Gajowniczek, the man whose place he took. Scenes from Pope John Paul's visit to Auschwitz and the canonization of St. Maximilian Kolbe completes this impressive story.

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