Holocaust

Films that look at the Holocaust.

49,172

49,172 Jews in Bulgaria escaped the atrocities of the Holocaust. This is their story.

50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus

The Krauses, an American couple, brought the single largest group of children out of Nazi Germany during the Holocaust...

Aliyah Dada

Aliyah Dada uses the avant-garde style to bring the rich and tragic history of Jews in Romania to life, culminating in a new Jewish renaissance. ...

Amnesia

A skeleton in the closet - Peter discovers his grandfather was one of perpetrators during the Kielce pogrom of 1946 in Poland.

An Open Door: Jewish Rescue in the Philippines

An Open Door is a feature-length documentary on the uplifting story of how a small Asian nation was able to save over 1,300 Jews as they fled...

Angel Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon

A visually stunning and provocative portrait of the great Bulgarian Jewish screenwriter, novelist, and lifelong revolutionary Angel Wagenstein....

Birobidzhan

There was once an independent communist state for Jews under Stalin. What became of Birobidzhan?

A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt

Otto Weidt manages to keep his employees â€“ who are nearly all Jewish and blind â€“ from the clutches of the Nazis. When his secretary...

The Burning Child

Memories are where the heart is- a love song to pre WWII Vienna.

The Caretaker

An inconspicuous museum caretaker risks everything to save "degenerate" artworks from the Nazis during the merciless Gleichschaltung era.

The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls

Every year 30,000 Hasidim flock to Ukraine visiting their leaderâ€™s grave -- where thousands of Jews were slaughtered in 1768.

Evan Kaufmann: Father's Land

Should Jewish-American hockey player Evan Kaufmann continue playing in Germany despite the fact many family members were killed in the Holocaust?...

Exodus 1947

The ship that launched a nation.

Eyewitness

A compelling examination of the lives of three artists who witnessed and painted the horrors of the Holocaust.

Finding Manny

The chance discovery of an online article sends Manny Drukier, a Holocaust survivor, on an unexpected trip to visit the orphanage where he was...

The Fuehrer Gives the Jews a City

The SS, seeking to exploit the beautification efforts undertaken at Theresienstadt in preparation for the Red Cross visit of June 23, 1944â€¦...

GANEF

A little girl, spooked by a dark tale from her mother’s wartime past, starts to believe her adored cleaner is a thief.

German Shepherd

Are we born to do good or are we here just to save ourselves? This animated film provides disconcerting answers.

Heaven in Auschwitz

Child-survivors of the Holocaust recount the story of Fredy Hirsch, a young man on a mission to protect Jewish youths.

I Remember

The last living witnesses in small towns of provincial Poland before World War II remember not only the joint-life of Polish and Jewish communities...

In Heaven, Underground

IN HEAVEN, UNDERGROUND is an enchanting journey into history that celebrates life and the immortality of memories.

J'Accuse!

A multi award-winning documentary film that exposes Lithuania’s Holocaust distortion and the systemic way it manufactures lies in order to...

The Last Jew from Drohobych

The story Alfred Schreyer tells is so remarkable that a lifetime is not sufficient to comprehend it. But this is the everyday, gruesome, uncanny...

The Last Survivor

Four Tragedies. Four journeys. One purpose. Survivors of genocide, from the Holocaust to Rwanda inspiring tolerance and a civic response.

The Law

A fascinating drama about a fascinating woman, skilled politician and resolute fighter for women's rights!

The Legacy of Aristides

Everyone knows the story of Schindlerâ€™s list but who knows Aristides de Sousa Mendesâ€™ brave deed who, in Bordeaux, in June 1940,...

Leslie's Journey

The film looks for answers to the mystery of Leslie Howard's death in WWII, diving into a story of intrigue and glamour.

Letter to a Pig

A Holocaust survivor's letter to a pig who saved him leads a schoolgirl into a twisted dream exploring identity, trauma, and human nature.

Liga Terezin

It was a game against the Nazis...

The Longest Journey: The Jews of Rhodes

Kaleidoscopic imagery and affecting testimonials recount the rich history and heinous fate of a small idyllic Jewish island community.

The Longings of Maya Gordon

The tragic- comic portrait of the artist as elderly wandering Jewess seeking a home and expressing the yearning in her outstanding work.

Love Gets A Room

A group of actors perform in the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto, in a life or death context on a run-down stage.

Marion's Triumph

In 1938 the Blumenthals began their journey to America as refugees from Nazi Germany. Just before departing from Rotterdam, the Germans invaded...

The Memory Thief

THE MEMORY THIEF is the story of Lukas - an aimless, young man in contemporary L.A. who buries thoughts of his own past in the humdrum routine...

Monsieur Mayonnaise

An epic adventure starring artists, werewolves, heroes, Nazis, a comic book & baguettes â€¦.with lashings of French mayonnaise!

Murer: Anatomy of a Trial

The respected local politician and wealthy farmer Franz Murer is on trial for a serious war crime allegedly committed while he was in command...

The Nazi Officer's Wife

Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into the Jewish ghetto. Knowing she would become a...

The Nazis, The Rabbi, and The Camera

An American photographer and rabbi undertook a lengthy investigation to find the descendants of Jews who were saved thanks to the director of...

Our Sons

Three volunteer soldiers from the Golani Brigade were killed next to each other on the first day of the ground entry into Gaza in Operation Eitan...

Out From the Shadows (Sortie Des Ombres)

The story of Chaïm Rozent, the Jew, murdered by the Nazis in a village in Corrèze on April 6, 1944.

Persona Non Grata

Against orders, a Japanese diplomat issued visas to 6,000 Jewish refugees during WWII.

Photographer

In 1987, about 400 color slides photographed between 1939 and 1943 in the Lodz Chetto in Poland, surfaced in mint condition in Vienna. They were...

The Pink Triangle and the Nazi Cure for Homosexuality

The Nazi doctor who experimented on prisoners in search for a cure for homosexuality.

Portrait of Wally

The story of a Nazi-looted painting, Egon Schiele's â€œPortrait of Wally,â€ that was discovered on the walls of the Museum of Modern...

The Prince and the Dybbuk

The story of a glamorous human chameleon haunted by a mystical spirit.

Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz

A portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage a crusade for law and peace.

Rabbi Wolff: A Gentleman Before God

William Wolff is nearly 90 and perhaps the most unconventional rabbi in the world.

The Red Orchestra

The Red Orchestra, a resistance net in Nazi Germany, got hold of Hitler's plan for the invasion of the Soviet Union.

Reinventing Rosalee

Never too late to live your dream.

The Return

How do you build your identity when your past has been stripped away?

Salonica

SALONICA is about Thessaloniki, the northern Greek city at the crossroads of the Orient and Europe, the Balkans and the Mediterranean.What makes...

Shadows

The film reveals the taboo story of Holocaust survivors who became perpetrators of abuse, making their own children victims of their past traumas....

Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog

Kaleb, a beloved German Shepherd, is separated from his Jewish family when the Nuremberg Laws are enacted in WWII Berlin. He is adopted by an...

The Silenced Walls

15 minutes away from Parisâ€™ city center hidden in plain sight and untouched by time: the Drancy internment camp is now public housing....

Steal a Pencil for Me

1943: Holland is under Nazi occupation. In Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, first meets Ina at a birthday party - a 20-year-old beauty...

Sugihara Survivors: Jewish and Japanese, Past and Present

The little known story of a Japanese diplomat who issued 2,139 visas and saved thousands of lives from the Holocaust.

Surviving Hitler: A Love Story

A Jewish teenager and an injured soldier join a doomed plot to kill Hitler.

Suskind

The true story of Jewish resistance hero Walter Suskind.

A Thousand Kisses

A love story tainted by the harsh historical context of its time, with a light touch and real-life poetry.

Victor Young Perez

Victor "Young" Perez , tells the astonishing, harrowing and incredible true story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight...

Vitch

A daughter tells the controversial choices that her father, a Jewish artist from Poland, made in order to survive the Holocaust.

Walter Arlen's First Century

Exile music is not written by those whom life left unchallenged.

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