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When will this air again?

I saw this and was moved by the entire story. Speaking of unknown stories, a movie called “Defiance” will be coming out shortly, based on the Bielski Brothers; a trio of brothers who saved over 1,200 Russian jews during the war and created the only all jewish partisan group of the war. their story is just as fantastic as Vrba’s. I read the book a while ago, but now a movie will be released. heres the URL for the trailer.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/defiance/trailer/

If you read all the reports you can, you will find a range of opinions presented as facts. I don’t worry about any single person getting it exactly right. Though this report seems authoritative, it does seem to differ from original ones that described bringing out plans of the camp and a label from a Zyklon container. What has added some food for thought is how they described convincing others that the rumors were true, when too few could actually believe how low a sophisticated population could sink. They seem to play down the hundreds of other escapes from the portion I was lucky enough to see.
Another example I’ve found of varying reports involved a Japanese pilot, Shigenori Nishikiaichi, who landed on Niihau and received aid from Ishimatsu Shintani, Yoshio Harada, and his wife Irene before Ben Kanahele and his wife were able to overpower and kill Nishikaichi on December 13th (6 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor in this account). Different sources give different accounts, including some that seem to have far too much information, supposedly from Nishikaichi. I learned a great deal of my respect for Japanese from Joe Bak, my dad’s friend who had been captured at Corregidor, who taught me to look beyond initial reports and “established” history. Though I sympathize with the many Japanese interred during the war, many are incorrect in believing there were no instances of Japanese helping the attackers. The response was drastic overkill (probably for ulterior motives) but not totally baseless.
I don’t need, or expect, total accuracy, or any pretense of such. A visit to Dachau shortly after the war ended, and movies like “Judgment at Nuremberg” provide my basis for action and basic beliefs. The more rabid the accusations, the more I look for other sides or alternate views. Weigh a good sample of the evidence, explore the impact of what you choose to believe before you decide how and what to act on.

This is a facinating story. I am a history buff and I am particularly “fond” of WWII because my father was one of the first to storm the beach at Normandy. To this day I am shocked at how the holocaust could have happend. Survivors and their realtives should NEVER let mankind forget about this wholesale murder of inocents.