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A Jew Among the Germans

60 minutes
Source: PBS Video

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
America and the Holocaust Study Guide
This study guide accompanies the documentary America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference and offers a disturbing look at the choices Americans made at a time when the Germans were labeling, isolating, humiliating, and eventually murdering European Jews and others they considered "undesirable.
 Publication January 24, 2008
Anton the Dove Fancier: and Other Tales of the Holocaust

by Bernard Gotfryd

(Washington Square Press)

This collection of autobiographical true stories illuminates the experiences of a teenage Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Auschwitz Death Camp: Oprah, Elie Wiesel

47 minutes
Source: Harpo Productions

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State

6 hours on 2 DVDs

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Bill Moyers on the Importance of Nuremberg
 Video Clip June 8, 2009
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Pacifist, Nazi Resister

90 minutes
Source: First Run Features

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German theologian who offered one of the first clear voices of resistance to Adolf Hitler. Bonhoeffer openly challenged his church to stand with the Jews in their hour of need, and eventually joined a plot to kill Hitler. Archival footage is interwoven with interviews with friends, family, and students of Bonheoffer, with historians and theologians, and with the words of Bonhoeffer himself.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Camera of My Family: Four Generations in Germany 1845-1945

18 minutes
Source: out of print

 Library Resource December 15, 2009

Can Journalism Kill? The Case of Rwandan Hate Radio locked

 Lesson Plan February 22, 2008
Childhood Experiences of German Jews

23 minutes
Source: Facing History and Ourselves

These excerpts from the testimonies of five German Jews representing different areas of Germany explain what circumstances were like for Jewish children attending school between 1933 and 1939. A principal theme of the montage is that antisemitic legislation was applied at different levels of intensity in different areas of Germany and not all Jews felt equally threatened by the discriminatory policies of the prewar Nazi regime. Part of the Elements of Time series

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
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