holocaust, 1939-1945

An anthology of art, poetry, stories, and articles from "Vedem, " a weekly magazine secretly produced by young teenage Jewish boys incarcerated at the Czechoslovakian concentration camp Terez?in during the years 1942-1944.

Over one hundred contributors provide an oral history of the Holocaust. Describes how life changed, including the rise of emigration and the creation of the ghettos. Also discusses how individuals tried to rebuild their lives after the fall of the Nazi regime.

Features vintage newsreel footage, photographs and a rare home movie to look beyond the celebrated pages of Anne Frank's diary. Includes interviews with her friends, family and protector, Miep Gies.

Use interviews with witnesses and perpetrators, along with archival film and records, to examine how a political party as fundamentally evil as the Nazis could come to power in a modern European nation. Discusses the factors that enabled the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the economically-devastated Germany of the post-World War I era and looks at the role of ordinary Germans in the Nazi regime. Follows the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, from its early promises through the atrocities and suffering of World War II. Includes segments focusing on the occupation of Poland and on the holocaust and concentration camps, particularly Treblinka.

Presents in full the Wannsee Protocol, which outlined plans for the Final Solution, and contemplates why the meeting that produced it was even held, since the mass murder of the Jewish people had already begun, and how the men present were capable of treating the subject in such a businesslike manner.

Explores the role the Einsatzgruppen, the professional killing squads deployed in Poland and the Soviet Union early in World War II, played in the Holocaust.