Movies: Holocaust shoah

In this non-narrative, meditative, and poignant film, footage of life from the Lodz Ghetto is juxtaposed with the chanting of "Kel Maleh Rachamim," a plea to God to let the souls of those "slaughtered and burned" find peace....

Documentary of Daniel Schubert's grandmother, Martha Katz, a Holocaust survivor....

The animate body as a medium for the celebration of life is on display as a young Jane Korman dances with her parents and their friends, all of whom are Holocaust survivors, in an Australian forest....

Decades after the Nazi death camps were eventually closed; exclusive fresh material from Soviet Film Archives has appeared revealing the true degree of the shocks before what we now know as the Holocaust....

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A boy under the influence of his neonazi-brother witnesses the power of truth when listening to an old survivor of the Shoah....

The new film from Sergei Loznitsa (Maidan, The Event) is a stark yet rich and complex portrait of tourists visiting the grounds of former Nazi extermination camps, and a sometimes sardonic study of the relationship (or the clash) between contemporary...

An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dissects the ruthless mechanisms of the Shoah from the detached point of view of Maximilian Aue, a high-ranking Nazi officer....

Multiple families go back to their hometown that they were kicked out of during the Holocaust....

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Portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, a writer and filmmaker who survived the Holocaust....

With her slap of the Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger in 1968, Beate Klarsfeld abruptly got known worldwide. The film highlights the significance of this act and its background. Beate Klarsfeld, born in Berlin in 1939 as Beate Künzel, is prim...

For four years (1977-1981) Esaias Baitel documented a violent Parisian neo-Nazi gang. Having gained their trust, he was able to get close to them. Living among the gang members, he witnessed horrific events, and while hiding his real identity, he pho...

The film follows Mrs. Sarika's departure to a Jewish retirement home. What was supposed to be a peaceful end to life, turns into the horror of the Holocaust, and she herself becomes a victim....

Experimental short film about composer Felix Mendelssohn travelling to the Jewish Museum in Berlin....

Ten-year-old Herb Gildin and his two older sisters were sent by their German-Jewish parents to live with non-Jewish families in Sweden to escape Nazi persecution. Two years later, they were reunited with their parents in America as refugees. Decades ...

As a result of the Holocaust and later, AIDS, the male homosexual community has sustained bitter losses and, according to Praunheim, lesbian women have now placed themselves at the head of the so-called queer movement. The female protagonists in the ...

Three Canadian Holocaust survivors, with unanswered questions from their past, journey back to hometowns, killing sites, and hiding places in search of clues in this new film. Maxwell wonders what happened to a baby he saved in a forest in 1943. Hel...

Continuing its tradition of unearthing little-known 20th-century operas, the Bregenz Festival presented the first staged production of Polish-Russian composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s “The Passenger” in 2010. Written in 1967/68, the opera relates the ch...