Documentaries are films or television/radio programs that provide a factual report on a particular subject.
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This documentary tells the story of the Auschwitz Death Camp, the site of the largest mass murder to date in history. The story unfolds through eye witness survivor accounts coupled with archival footage, dramatic recreations, and computerized reconstructions.
National Geographic's documentary that tells the story of the GI Death Camp in Berga and how American prisoners of war worked and died as slave labourers of Hitler.
This documentary contains real-time footage of the Allied liberation of the Nazi concentration camps of Dachau, Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1945 and documents the horrors of the camps.
Voices of the Holocaust is an oral history of the Holocaust and the ideology of Nazi Germany told through interviews of those who survived.
Dramatizations are plays or films adapted from novels or depicting particular incidents.
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This dramatized adaptation of Joseph Joffo’s memoir tells the story of Joseph and his brother who were living in Nazi occupied France with their father and escaped by themselves in the hope that they would avoid being captured. As the Jewish brothers continue their dangerous journey through France, they become determined to reassemble their family.
This dramatization is based on the historical fiction novel by Mark Markus Zusak. Zusak's story centers around a young orphan girl named Liesel who is taught to read by her foster father in Germany in 1939. Liesel grows to love books, disagrees with Nazi ideology, and rebels by rescuing a book from a Nazi bonfire and assisting her foster parents in hiding a Jewish friend.
This Hallmark movie is based on Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who smuggled over 2,000 Jewish children to safety from the Warsaw ghetto during the start of World War II.
The dramatized true story Anne Frank's life in hiding as a Jewish teen under Nazi terror during World War II.
This movie dramatizes the true story of how Oskar Schindler saved more than 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
This movie is based on fact and is about a hero who helped over 100,000 Hungarian Jews escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Additional documentaries and dramatizations of the Holocaust and German concentration camps can be found using Google Play and Amazon Prime Video and searching for the term Holocaust. There is a fee to download and view each specific title on Google Play and Amazon Prime Video requires a subscription. Netflix and many other video streaming services are not accessible on our school network.
Documentaries and dramatizations of other genocides can be found both in our library by searching the online catalog as well as on Google play and Amazon Prime Video. You can either conduct a general search using the term genocide or search for specific examples of genocide such as Rwanda and Darfur.
Find video series and survivor interviews by searching the term Holocaust. All videos in this source have been locally produced by SCETV, or by SCETV with other entities, or with rights obtained for South Carolina-use ONLY.
Seared Souls: South Carolina Voices of the Holocaust - provides videos testimonies of survivors who settled in South Carolina combined with archival footage the inhumanity that was experienced during the Holocaust.
South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - provides videos of South Carolinians who survived the Holocaust and those who liberated the concentration camps or witnessed the atrocities that took place.
Liberation is the 4th episode of the series South Carolinians in World War II. This episode chronicles horrors of the concentration camps.
Interview with an Auschwitz survivor
United Kingdom's Channel 4 News airing of Holocaust survivor Leslie Kleinman speaking about surviving the Aushwitz concentration camp.
Holocaust Survivor Samuel Heider Speaks at National Museum of the USAF
Holocaust Survivor Samuel Heider shares his experiences growing up as a Jew in Poland and surviving the Jewish ghetto and German concentration camps.
The Twins of Auschwitz
British Broadcast Service Newsnight's special commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Aushwitz through interviews of 3 survivors who lived through to tell of German Dr. Josef Mengele's horrific medical experiments on twin children.
Additional video clips of survivor interviews and accounts of the horrific concentration camps can be found by searching You Tube for Holocaust survivor interviews