jewish children in the holocaust

A documentary film focusing on diaries written by young people in which they each describe their personal experiences and first hand accounts during the Holocaust, and includes archival and original footage.

Suzanne Loebl provides an account of her experiences as a young girl after her Jewish family went into hiding from the Nazis in Brussels.

Chronicles the short life of Anne Frank--the Dutch Jewish girl who avoided Nazi capture in a secret apartment with her family for two years before being sent to a concentration camp--drawing from the diary she kept in hiding and comments from people who knew her.

The author presents an account of her experiences as a child in Nazi-occupied France and later in the Bergen-Belsen death camp.

Describes the experiences of children living in Europe during the Nazi regime, focusing on the crimes against humanity that were carried out against innocent children during the years before and during World War II.

Thomas Buergenthanl, a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, shares his memories of what it was like to be a child in the Holocaust and to survive the concentration camps, and discusses his experiences after being liberated from Sachsenhausen, his miraculous reunion with his mother after three years apart, and his emigration to the U.S. in 1951.

Chronicles the experiences of Izr?el Zachariah Deutsch, a deaf boy living in Czechoslovakia during World War II, focusing on the years he spent in the Nazi concentration camps.

The memoir of a Polish-American woman who, with her family in Poland in 1942, at age nine, was forced into hiding in a crawl space under a barn to escape Nazi persecution.

Presents over one hundred brief stories in which Holocaust survivors from Germany, Poland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Austria and the Balkans share memories of pivotal events from their childhoods during the Nazi occupation.