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- DirectorJames MollStarsBill BaschMartin BaschRandolph BrahamIn late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz.
- DirectorGabo AroraAri PalitzStarsPinchas GutterHubert PicchotaOn July 14th, 2016 the Shoah Foundation, Here Be Dragons, Otoy, and the United Nations traveled to Majdanek Concentration Camp to preserve an intimate conversation with a Holocaust survivor. The resulting VR experience, captured with advanced immersive technology, is a rare glimpse at history from the eyes of a man who lived it. Since 1943, Pinchas Gutter has repeatedly journeyed from his home in Toronto, Canada to Poland to share his experiences at Madjanek. Brought to the camp at age eleven, he has spent a lifetime educating teachers from all over the world on the horrors of last century. Gutter subjects himself to painful memories so that others might learn from his wisdom. Pinchas, now 85 years old, is both physically and emotionally exhausted. Unable to continue traversing the world, he has in recent years sought new methods of sharing his experiences. We now hope to similarly preserve Pinchas' presence and message - this time within the space where his words can resonate most strongly. Through the subtle aid of new VR technology, we recreated an intimate tour with Pinchas, allowing him to bear witness to millions of people worldwide and forever. Our hope is that this immersive experience will endure like the monument at of Madjanek - a testament, a memorial, and a cautionary tale.
- DirectorSteve PurcellStarsMichael BerenbaumWalter FeidenKelsey GrammerAuschwitz concentration camp survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon revisits Auschwitz 70 years after her liberation, together with two teenage girls the same age she was when she was brought to the camp.
- DirectorMimmo Calopresti9 Italian Auschwitz survivors tell their moving stories of deportation, separation, suffering, survival and final liberation...
- DirectorElizabeth McIntyreStarsAnthony Hopkins
- DirectorSergey BukovskyStarsPolina Bel'skaiaMaryna ChaikaMariia Egorycheva-GlagolevaSurvivors tell the story of the Babi Yar massacre from WWII, where some 100,000 people were massacred by German forces.
- DirectorAllan HolzmanStarsSteven SpielbergHenry RosmarinHellmuth SzprycerThis documentary blends personal accounts of what happened before, during and after WWII. One testimony tells of a sister sending tear-stained letters from the prison camp, while another survivor tells the story of how his father traded portions of the family's food that was being saved for the liberation march, a few slices of bread, for a Jewish prayer book in order to perform a Passover sedar and for Sabbath. Woven together with survivor testimonies, archival footage, original music, source music and survivors' personal photographs and artifacts, the documentary will show the richness of life before the war, the rise and fall of Nazi power, the liberation of the camps and life now, 50 years later, all as seen through the eyes of those who survived.
- DirectorVanessa RothStarsChris MageeXia ShuqinThis is a story of loss, legacy, and the power to change the future. It's about family and the memories we leave behind, a story that began 80 years ago in 1937, when eight-year-old Xia Shuqin witnessed the murder of her family in the horror known as the Nanjing Massacre. In just six weeks, 300,000 people were slaughtered at the hands of Japanese soldiers - victims of mass rape and murder. Xia Shuqin and her 4-year-old sister hid from the soldiers for ten long days, concealing themselves under the corpses of their parents and siblings. Shortly after they emerged, American missionary John Magee, who was documenting the atrocities with his 16mm home movie camera, filmed the little girls standing in front of what was once their family home; bearing witness through rare film images of the carnage - and binding his family and theirs forever. The Girl and The Picture brings together two direct descendants of this history as Madame Xia, now 88, shares her legacy of loss and survival with her granddaughter and great-grandson, and with Chris Magee, the grandson of the missionary who captured her image eight decades earlier.