Escape from the Third Reich: The Harrowing True Story of the Largest Rescue Effort Inside Nazi Germany

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Documentary film using archived and colorized footage of Warsaw uprising. Polish title: Powstanie Warszawskie The trial of Oskar Gröning, who worked as accountant in Auschwitz, responsible for the murder of over 300,000 Jews. [26]

Italian title: Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini; based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani; Oscar for Best Foreign Film First feature film to show mass murder of Jews and hunting for them on the occupied territories. 1946 Venice festival award. One of the strengths of Escape From The Third Reich is the way it humanizes the characters on both sides of the conflict. While the Nazis are clearly the villains of the piece, the film takes the time to show that not all Germans supported Hitler's regime, and that many were deeply conflicted about the actions being carried out in their name. Klaus, in particular, is a complex and sympathetic character who is torn between his loyalty to his country and his horror at the atrocities being committed in its name.Documentary about notes which were written by Jews who were part of a special unit called the Sonderkommando Film set in North Italy: A Jewish girl falls in love with a young Clown, who hides her from Nazis in his circus and teaches her to be tightrope walker. Tells the story of the survival of over 50,000 Jews in World War II and the mass murder of 11,393 Jews from territories under Bulgarian control in Greece and Macedonia. Footage of the trains renders the crime visible. [25] German TV film. The story of the family Adler living in Berlin, betrayed by Stella Goldschlag murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 and three young students moving from Israel to Berlin. His marriage and his many travels inclined Bernadotte to take more and more interest in international issues. It was now that he received his first Swedish public commissions, all of them, significantly, in the United States. He represented the Swedish king at the Swedish exhibition in Chicago in 1933 and 1934, and was vice-chairman of the committee appointed to celebrate the Swedish colonisation of Delaware in 1638. Finally, he acted as general commissioner at the Swedish pavilion at the New York World Fair in 1939.

The White Bus expedition in 1945 was the biggest and most important humanitarian operation performed by Sweden in the course of the past century. It was in all probability the boldest and most successful act a Swedish government had undertaken during the twentieth century. The undisputed leader of the entire operation was Count Folke Bernadotte. Who was this remarkable man? Post script to June 6th posting "...watching Eichman", NYU Orphan Film Project, The Orphan Film Symposium: Archivists, academics, & artists saving, studying, & screening neglected moving images, June 20, 2013 Jan Bonde Nielsen has very generously provided the financial assistance which made this English-language version possible and which has enabled me to research relevant documents at the UK Public Record Office in London, now part of the National Archives. Valuable pictorial material, in the shape of unique photographs taken in 1945 by the German photographer Heinz Ahrens, has been made available especially for this English-language edition by kind permission of his daughter Anita Ahrens de Mari and his grandson Marzio de Mari. The translation of this book from Swedish into English is the work of my friend Graham Long. Finally, I should like to thank my British publisher, Michael Leventhal, for his never-failing patience. To all of you: thank you so much! Documentary about a group of Jews who lived in caves in Ukraine for nearly 18 months to escape the Holocaust. https://web.archive.org/web/20121028182739/http://www.le-pacte.com/international/upcoming-films/single/the-last-of-the-unjust/

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The mission became known for its fleet of distinctive buses. Painted entirely white, these vehicles carried the Red Cross emblem and Swedish or Danish flags so that they would not be mistaken for military targets. The various expeditions to the German concentration camps were long and highly dangerous, with every move watched by the SS and the Gestapo. The conditions the rescuers encountered at the camps were beyond comprehension. The true purpose of the Auschwitz death camp was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Third Reich. Prisoners who tried to escape were killed in public as a deterrent to other inmates, and very few ever made it out alive. Escape From Auschwitz tells the incredible story of two young Slovak Jews, Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who escaped by hiding in a woodpile for three days then fleeing across enemy territory, determined to tell the world about the murders and atrocities being committed by the Nazis at the camp. In addition to his dyslexia and his incurable illness, however, Bernadotte also experienced other personal tragedies. Two of his children died suddenly at a young age. His wife later related how, on the death of his elder son Gustav, Folke said: 'We weren't brought into this world to be happy but rather to make others happy.' He realised that his personality was more suitable for humanitarian work; this is partly why he became chairman of the Swedish Scout Association in 1937 and vice-chairman of the Swedish Red Cross organisation in 1943.

A Jew who escaped from a transport to a concentration camp is hiding by posing for tourists disguised as a polar bear. Based on a chapter from Lillian Hellman's 1973 book Pentimento about the author's relationship with a lifelong friend, "Julia", who fought against the Nazis in the years prior to World War II. It received 11 Academy Award nominations including for Best Picture The film has been described as an «enquête historique, poétique et philosophique sur les traces de l'extermination des Juifs dans Paris et sa banlieue aujourd'hui» — French Wikipedia. The reason I am giving this oddity 3 stars is not because of the quality of the acting or direction or writing - pretty dire at times on all 3 counts. It is because it is a real oddity, a curiosity based on the tiniest thinnest sliver of truth in film history perhaps?Released on French VHS and DVD under its original title, on NTSC VHS as Adolf Eichmann: The Specialist, on Region 1 DVD as The Specialist: Portrait of a Modern Criminal, and on German VHS as Ein Spezialist. All of these home video editions are currently out-of-print. Documentary showing how tourists act while visiting the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps. Based on true events and is the first major motion picture to dramatize the expulsion of 3 million Germans from Czechoslovakia. Documents the attitudes and experiences of tourists and students visiting Mauthausen concentration camp, their guides, and the townspeople of Mauthausen. Throughout the film, the tension builds as Sara and Julian try to evade the SS and Klaus, while at the same time working towards their shared goal of bringing down the Nazi regime. There are many heart-stopping moments, such as when Sara is almost discovered by SS soldiers while hiding in a train station, and when Julian has to bluff his way through a terrifying encounter with a high-ranking Nazi officer.