holocaust survivors

Looks at the work of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation which is busily recording oral and video memoirs of Holocaust survivors, employing all the latest technologies to provide complete access to all aspects of the narratives. (74 min.).

Presents a novel based on the premise that Peter Van Pels, who lived in the annex with Anne Frank during World War II, survived the Holocaust and moved to America.

Nova, always on the lookout for a new father, turns to Josef, a Holocaust survivor, as a beacon of hope and faith when her beloved older brother Dewey contracts polio, and her mother loses sight of God.

Presents excerpts from the correspondence between Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, and Cara Wilson, an American girl who turned to Otto for advice in the midst of her chaotic teen years and continued writing him until his death, twenty years later.

Records the memories of Holocaust survivors living in America.

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.

The author recounts the shape her life took at the hands of the Nazis, describing her forced relocation to the Theresienstadt ghetto near Prague at the age of nineteen, where she dreamed of becoming an actress; her internment at the Auschwitz, Kurzbach, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen, and Bergen-Belsen camps; and her rescue in 1945 by an anonymous British officer.

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.

Memoir of a Polish woman who spent World War II in a German work camp until her rescue by the man she later married.

Living in a village in Israel where her father grows oranges, a motherless girl befriends a sensitive shoemaker from Djerba from whom she hopes to learn how to fly.