The Holocaust: History and Literature
Streaming Films on the Holocaust
- Academic Video Online / Alexander Street Direct Link to "Holocaust" Search Term VideosThis is a link to everything in Academic Video Online that is related to the Holocaust.
- I Was A Child of a Holocaust Survivor (2010)'The Holocaust is a drug...' I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is director Ann Marie Fleming’s animated adaptation of Bernice Eisenstein’s acclaimed illustrated memoir. Through an artful blend of Eisenstein’s drawings, inventive animation and the author’s own voice, the film weaves together personal and global history.
- Surviving the Holocaust (2018)Produced by PBS, join Ann Curry as Holocaust survivors search for those who gave them hope in the darkest days. One wants to find the friend he left behind when he didn’t move to Israel; the other hopes an old photo will reunite him with the girl who was his first friend.
- Touched by Auschwitz - Part 1 (2015)The extraordinary story of six Auschwitz survivors – telling of their survival in the years after they left the camp, and travelling right up to the present day.
- Otto Frank, Father of Anne (2013)After returning from Auschwitz, Otto Frank is confronted with Anne's diary. The film tells the story of what he went through, how the loss of his family scarred his life, how he dealt with the dilemmas that the publication of the diary brought upon him and how he made a memorial of his daughters legacy and became the father-figure for thousands of young readers worldwide.
DVDs
Anne Frank (2001)
Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a two-part mini-series based on the 1998 book Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller.
Holocaust: The Story of the Family Weiss (1978)
Five part story that follows the tragedy and triumph of the Weiss family of Berlin and intertwines their fate as European Jews with the story of a German family, the Dorfs, whose members include a high-ranking Nazi officer. Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass" occurs and the Weiss family suffer a series of unspeakable tragedies in the aftermath.
Into the Arms of Strangers (2000)
The life-affirming tale of 10,000 children saved from Hitler's grasp and placed with foster parents and hostels in Great Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Includes archival footage and decades-later rememberances of both the rescuers and the rescued.
Schindler's List (1993)
The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps