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As Holocaust stories go, this is very mild, and thus a suitable film for introducing children to the subject. There are no Gestapo round-up of Jews, street beatings, or any trace of barbed wire, not to speak of ovens or mass shootings. Just a family story fortunate enough to have a father who can …
The Psalmist could be describing the Nazis in director/co-writer Peter Thorwarth’s bloody movie set at the end of WW 2. Lt. Colonel Von Starnfeld (Alexander Scheer) and his underling Dorfler (Florian Schmidtke) have run down a deserter, Pvt. Heinrich (Robert Masser) and are preparing to hang him. To prolong his angony the sadistic Dorfler arranges …
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 …
Italian director Marco Bellocchio shows us the danger of anti-Semitism in Europe long before Hitler came to power. Based on true events, it recounts the forceable stripping of a six-year-old boy from his Jewish family in Bologna by a priest of the Inquisition and the boy’s indoctrination (read “brain washing”) so that as he is …
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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.
A French couple try to evict the man who bought their basement when he moves in & is discovered to be a Neo-Nazi influencing their daughter.
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
Based on a Jewish survivor’s memoir of a Nazi death camp memoir, this is the unrelieved dark story of compromises men will make to cling to a few more months of life.