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In this faith-based film set during the Nazi rule the escapees are not the usual Jewish families but 79 Mormon missionaries seeking to convert Germans to their born in America religion—you know, the kind of well-dressed young male couples whom you might have seen knocking on doors in your neighborhood. Set in August 1939, this …
Director Julia von Heinz provides an intriguing funny post-Holocaust drama involving a Jewish Holocaust survivor in 1991 tagging along with his daughter to discover where the family once lived and was imprisoned. A road movie, ti has been adapted from the autobiographical novel Too Many Men by Lily Brett. The novelist is an Australian, the …
Good Film for HOLOCAUST Day, May 6, 2024 The story of how the Danes, or rather some of them, smuggled most of the 8000 Danish Jews to Sweden is a good film to watch in honor of Holocaust Day, which comes in early May. Director/cowriter Bent Christensen focuses upon one family, the Steins, consisting of …
Almost exactly 24 years ago I reviewed the documentary Into the Arms of Strangers that told the story of the Kindertransport, a group of projects involving ten thousand Jewish children whom kind-hearted people were able to transport to England from Hitler-dominated Europe just before World War Two erupted. Director James Hawes’s, film straddling two time …
The family of Rudolh Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz, ignore the horrific sounds of torture & death transpiring on the other side of the wall, nor are we ever shown the horrors of the other side.
True story of a Black scholar studies Nazism in Germany & Dalits in India because she believes that racism is not the only reason for Trayvon Martin’s death.
True story of a brave Catholic social worker who poses as a nurse in order to smuggle children out of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The true story of a Jewish teenager who finds shelter with an anti-Semitic Ukrainian family during the Nazi holocaust by keeping her identity secret.
True story of Jewish death camp survivor who fought boxing matches for Nazi’s amusement, and his post war search for his lover
There are a great many films dealing with anti-Semitism and the Holocaust readily available to watch this Thursday, April 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Many of them tell heroic stories of those who tried to save as many Jews as possible, calling to mind what Fred Rogers said when asked what to tell a child during …