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1939 - 1945

Jakob the liar

Columbia Pictures; Blue Wolf Productions with KASSO Inc
1997
In Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, poor Jewish cafe owner Jakob Heym accidently overhears a forbidden radio news bulletin signaling Soviet military successes against German forces. To combat the overwhelming depression and suicide that pervades the ghetto, Jakob invents fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances against the Nazis. These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants - spirits are lifted, hearts are refreshed, and optimism is reborn. The Germans learn of the mythical radio and begin a search for the resistance hero who dares operate it.

Misha

a memoire of the Holocaust years
1997
A young girl walks 3,000 miles across Nazi-occupied Europe in search of her parents and is befriended by wolves. This inspiring story, full of passion, terror and courage is a classic in the manner of Anne Frank's Diary, with the difference that in this tale the narrator survives.

Life in a Jewish family

1891 - 1916
1986
This initial volume of the Collected Works offers, for the first time in English, Edith Stein's unabridged autobiography depicting herself as a child and young adult. Her text breaks abruptly because the Gestapo arrested, then deported her to Auschwitz in 1942.

Descent into nightmare

1992
On September 25, 1944, shortly after the ground fighting reached German soil for the first time, Adolf Hitler ordered the formation of a Volkssturm, or People's Army. Hitler's decree automatically made every semi-healthy male civilian between the ages of sixteen and sixty a member of the new force.

When learned men murder

essays on the essence of higher education
1996
The title of this book was inspired by a historical event known as the Wannsee Conference. These "learned men" who gathered around a table and sipped brandy as they planned the annihilation of a people were laden with credentials. Graduates of the best universities in Central Europe, they were - by all usual standards - highly intelligent and quite successful pillars of their community.

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.

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.

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