Tells the untold story of Tour de France cycling champion Gino Bartali and other courageous Italians who risked their lives to rescue Jews, partisans and other refugees in Nazi-occupied Italy.
A group of Japanese children unravel the story of George and Hana Brady, two young Jewish children who grew up in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia, when they receive an old suitcase with Hana's name written on it from the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz.
Explores the life and accomplishments of political activist Elie Wiesel, who came of age during the time of World War II and the Nazi occupation of Europe, and experienced concentration camp persecution himself.
Describes the formation and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis, covering the causes of the formation of the ghetto, daily life in the ghetto, the events that led to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and the aftermath of the uprising.
Explores the history of Jewish resistance during World War II, giving the background, the invasion of Poland and moving of Jews into the ghettos, the Jewish resistance in the death camps, and more.
Explores the history of the Holocaust in Germany, covering the ideology behind it, the rise of the Nazi party, the men given the task of implementing it, the extermination in the East, and the systematic extermination in the death camps.
Describes how the strong dislike of Jews that existed in Europe since social Darwinism became popular in the 1870's led eventually to Kristallnacht or "Night of broken glass" in 1938 when Jews throughout Germany and Austria were subjected to brutality and thousands of horrors in a single night.
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Presents the 1956 documentary in which Alain Resnais visits the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek, and compares them with wartime footage of the horrors of the Holocaust.
