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Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.

Hannah, a typical American teenager, resents stories of her Jewish heritage, until a mystical Passover seder results in her being magically transported to Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why it is important to remember the past.

Struggling to grasp the concept of 6 million Holocaust victims, the students at Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee decide to collect 6 million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. Because Norwegians invented the paper clip and used it as a symbol of solidarity against the Nazis, students started collecting them to help visualize such vast numbers of victims. As word spread online and in the media, paper...

This film "examines America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Americans consider themselves a 'nation of immigrants,' but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolded in Europe, the United States proved unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people seeking refuge. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured...

Part I tells of the search for Nazi officials and concentration camp officials and guards immediately after the end of World War II. Tells of the arrest and subsequent trials of major Nazi officials and their subordinates. Describes the vengeance wreaked on collaborators by people in occupied countries, particularly France, and shows the executions of collaborators and convicted Nazi war criminals. Tells how some Nazis evaded capture by mingling with...

"Go beyond the famous Diary in this inspiring profile of the young girl who has become an international symbol of the millions of lives cut short by the Nazi death machine."--A&E website.

The story of the birth of Israel as an independent state, based on the novel by Leon Uris.

One week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, sweeping the United States into World War Ii, the Henry family is forever changed by the war in the Pacific, and the horror of the Holocaust.

Explores the relationship between two men, Niklas Frank, and Horst von Wachter, each of whom are the children of high-ranking Nazi officials and possess starkly contrasting attitudes toward their fathers. Philippe Sands investigates the complicated connection between the two, and even delves into the story of his own grandfather who escaped the same area where their fathers carried out mass killings. Features never before seen home movie and archive...

Based on the true story of a community of refugees and fighters, presents an account of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II.