Picking Up at Auschwitz
History is written by the losers.
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History is written by the losers.
Here's the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum, as it appears to us: vestiges, ruins, traces. Some barbed wires, some barracks, some birches. A museum without any works of art, a cemetery without any graves, a Unesco listed site,
With so few survivors of the Holocaust left to share their first-hand testimony, what is the right approach to those with accounts that can it be proved? Ninety-three-year-old Denis Avey is a British hero of the Holocau
Amid the Holocaust’s unimaginable cruelty, a young boy finds hope in music. Eighty years later, Frank Grunwald shares his true story of survival and resilience, intertwined with American jazz, offering a powerful testame
Three Greek Jewish men forced to endure work in the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau travel together to the death camp, in both remembrance and defiance of what they experienced there.
An Auschwitz Album Story shares the extraordinary survivor story of Mike and Joe Kreitenberg and their life-changing discovery in the Auschwitz Album: the only existing photographs of their family and neighbors who were
Tells the extraordinary story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch who, along with other victims of Auschwitz, played and created music amidst the terrors of the Holocaust.
After mysterious notes found at Auschwitz are discovered to be written by the Sonderkommando, a unit of Jewish prisoners tasked with guiding other prisoners to the gas chambers, experts look into the lives of these priso
Leonardo Defilippis stars in this gripping one-man drama chronicling the remarkable life of Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar and eventual saint who was arrested and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp for speaking o
Examines documents and traces of the atrocities that took place at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Years after the end of the war, expert analysis of the remnants of these documents has helped shed light on the stories
The extraordinary true story of the life and career of a two time Academy Award Winning producer of "Schindlers List" and "Gladiator", Branko Lustig. From his humble upbringing in the Croatian city of Osijek, his family
The Journey of Roy, a 17-year-old Israeli teenager, trying to win the affection of a girl from his class while they both travel in Poland with their school between Holocaust memorials and death camps.
There is no single universal truth about the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Each camp survivor has their own unquestionable truth - which may vary from the truth of their campmate from their neighbouring bunk. T
Marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, journalist Jordan Dunbar meets survivors of the holocaust and travels to visit the camp.
The Auschwitz trial began on November 24, 1947, in Kraków, when Polish authorities (the Supreme National Tribunal) tried 40 former staff of the Auschwitz concentration camps. The trials ended on December 22, 1947.
See Auschwitz as never before in this brand new documentary. With rare access to key sites including the gas chambers, barracks, guard towers, and the commandant’s house the film traces the chilling evolution of the camp
A Sephardic Jew, born in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, tells of the terrible experience of being a prisoner for two years in the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz and how he was able to save his life thanks to knowing how t