holocaust

The summer Buddy met Gentlehands was the summer he fell in love.

The family of a brave teenager named Malka Csizmadia (Robin Tunney) reach out to a Jewish refugee (Michael Rapaport), helping him and others escape from the prison camp behind their home. In "We are Circus," husband-and-wife circus owners (Tim Matheson, Daryl Hannah), risk losing their business - and their lives - by hiding a Jewish family in their travelling circus.

Elizabeth Perkins and Sela Ward star in this powerful portrayal of two courageous women who risk their lives to help Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. In "Mamusha," Gertruda Babilinska (Perkins) is a nanny who keeps a friend's young son and a group of Jewish prisoners alive until the war ends...Marie-Rose Gineste (Ward) is a "Woman On a Bicycle" in the south of France who is enlisted by the local bishop to help hide refugees and falsify their documents.

Studies individual acts of courage by people living in Nazi occupied lands during the Second World War. The first story tells of a newlywed couple who live in a constant state of danger after turning their country house into a hideaway for fleeing Jewish refugees. The second story tells of Madame Hamilton and her husband who give young Jewish boys a new lease on life by hiding them at their Catholic school for children of prisoners of war.

What is the responsibility of a follower of God when others are being persecuted and sent to prison camps and gas chambers?.

Of the 1,600,000 Jewish children who lived in Europe before World War II, only 100,000 survived the Holocaust. Most were hidden children shuttered away in attics, cellars, convents or in villages or farms. Maud Dahme, former president of the New Jersey Board of Education, was among those who were hidden and survived.

The history of the Holocaust in words and pictures.

Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

It is 1939 when five-year-old Marlies Adams travels with her family on a transatlantic journey from America to Germany so that her mother can visit her terminally ill father. As the SS Bremen leaves New York Harbor with Marlies and her family as passengers, Marlies has no idea that what is intended to be a three-month stay will turn into a seven-year struggle to stay alive in a living hell.