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Educational Resources :: Thematic Programs
8030 Flight from Destiny
A documentary based on interviews with survivors of the SS St. Louis
and Shanghai. 60 minutes.
8046 Testimony Excerpts - Bystander and Two Survivors
Excerpts from three testimonies. A Jesuit priest, who during the war
was a seminarian in Hungarian-occupied Kosice, now Slovakia, vividly describes
two personal encounters with the suffering and horrors of the Holocaust
and laments his inability to intervene or protest on behalf of the victims.
A religious Jew from Poland describes the liquidation of the Jews of his
town, including the murder of his grandmother, which he witnessed. He
speaks of his experiences in slave labor and concentration camps and tells
how he was able to retain his faith and humanity in spite of his wartime
experiences. A survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, Majdanek and Auschwitz speaks
of her wartime experiences, her postwar reunion with her husband and present
pessimism about the world situation. 35 minutes.
8060 Seeing
Survivors and witnesses describe their experiences during the Holocaust
period. Included are a Jesuit priest who was a seminarian in Hungarian-occupied
Czechoslovakia; a Jewish woman who was a young girl in Locise, Poland;
another who was deported from the Warsaw ghetto to Majdanek; a Jewish
male survivor of Skarzysko-Kamienna; and a woman survivor or Auschwitz.
16 minutes. Excerpts from one of
the testimonies in this program are available online.
8061 Future Imperfect
Survivors' reflections on the effects of their Holocaust experiences
upon their lives and those of their children. 12 minutes. Excerpts
from one of the testimonies included in this program are available online.
8064 Parallel Paths
As seen through the eyes of survivors, witnesses and rescuers who had
experiences similar to Anne Frank's, this program takes the viewer beyond
the hiding place and the Diary. The testimony excerpts follow the path
of the Frank family: their move from Germany to Holland; the German invasion;
going into hiding; arrest and deportation to Westerbork (the Dutch transit
camp), deportation to Auschwitz, transfer to Bergen-Belsen, and Anne Frank's
death in Bergen-Belsen. 29 minutes. Excerpts from two of the testimonies
included in this program, Helen R.
and Marion P., are available online.
8067 And Everything Else Was History
Survivors describe specific memories, reflect upon how and why they remember
particular incidents and the impact of these memories on their present
lives. 26 minutes.
8074 The Secondary Witness: An interview with Terrence Des Pres
A scholar of the Holocaust describes the origins of his interest in the
subject and his work studying and teaching Holocaust literature. He particularly
focuses upon his book about survivors. Most suitable for college literature
courses. 31 minutes.
8076 Witness: Voices from the Holocaust
The stories of nineteen witnesses and survivors -- an American POW, resistance fighters, a Jesuit priest, an American liberator, a Hitler Youth, as well as ghetto and camp survivors -- are woven together to create a narrative of the Holocaust in the words of those who experienced it. Rare historical photographs and footage is also included.Nationally broadcast by PBS in 2000 for Yom Hashoah, it has also appeared on Israeli and Canadian television. 86 minutes.
A teacher's guide and educational materials are available from United Learning. A book of the same title was published by the Free Press. For more information see our publications page.
8080 Remembering Czestochowa, Poland
Seven survivors from Czestochowa, Poland describe their lives before the war, German invasion, ghettoization, mass killings, deportations, slave labor in German factories established in Czestochowa, liberation by Soviet troops, and their losses.
This program was prepared for an exhibit in Czestochowa that was also shown in Krakow and Warsaw. 38 minutes.
8081 Yugoslav Voices from the Holocaust
Many aspects of the history of the Holocaust in the former Yugoslavia is told through the voices of those that survived it. The program includes excerpts of Jews rescued by Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians; a Serbian non-Jewish rescuer whose husband was shot for hiding Jews; survivors of concentration camps in Yugoslavia those deported elsewhere; camp escapees; and partisans. The survivor and witness testimonies were recorded in the United States, Israel, and the former Yugoslavia between 1982 and 1996. They tell of the Sephardic Jewish community before the war, life under the Nazis, liberation, and the challenges they faced after the Holocaust. 30 minutes with some subtitles.
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