Films
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Memory of the Camps
May 7, 1985
About the documentary
Over seven decades ago, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. FRONTLINE presents the world broadcast of a 1945 film made by British and American film crews with the troops that liberated the camps, who found unspeakable horrors that still haunt the world’s conscience. The film was directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock, and, in 1985, was broadcast for the first time in its entirety on FRONTLINE.
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Shtetl
April 17, 1996
About the documentary
FRONTLINE travels back in time to a family shtetl, a small village, with producer Marian Marzynski. As a child, Marzynski escaped the Warsaw ghetto and was raised by Christians. The remarkable three-hour film tells the homecoming story of two elderly Polish-American Jews who return to their families' shtetl, Bransk, Poland, where 2,500 Jews lived before most were sent to Treblinka's gas chambers. These two Americans are aided in their journey by a Polish Gentile who has restored Bransk's Jewish cemetery and researched the lives of the Jews who once lived there. The film captures these pilgrims as they face old neighbors, some who were betrayers, others who were saviors to the Jews of Bransk.
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Never Forget to Lie
May 14, 2013
About the documentary
In the most recent of his critically-lauded autobiographical films, Marian Marzynski explores, for the first time, his own wartime childhood and the experiences of other child survivors for FRONTLINE. Marzynski teases out their feelings about Poland, the Catholic Church, and the ramifications of identities forged under circumstances where survival began with the directive "never forget to lie."
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The Last Survivors
April 30, 2019
About the documentary
As young children, they lived through the Holocaust. More than seventy years after World War II, some of the last remaining survivors recount their memories and the lingering trauma. FRONTLINE offers a haunting look at how disturbing childhood experiences and unimaginable loss have affected the daily lives and relationships of some of the Holocaust's youngest victims – from survivor’s guilt, to crises of faith and second-generation trauma.
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Articles
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In Mapping the Holocaust, a Horrifying Lesson in Nazi “Paths to Persecution”
April 14, 2015
Historians at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum have counted 42,500 Nazi concentration camps and ghettos, but even that figure may be conservative.
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Hitchcock and the Holocaust: “Memory of the Camps”
February 2, 2015
FRONTLINE first broadcast the director's "lost Holocaust film" in 1985.
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Holocaust Survivors Share Their Memories of Destroyed Childhoods
April 30, 2019
A collection of testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Some are written, some are in print — but all of them paint a stark picture of survival in the face of unthinkable pain.
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How Technology Helps Preserve the Testimony of Holocaust Survivors
April 30, 2019
For many Holocaust survivors, who experienced the brutal consequences of anti-Semitism at its height, the greatest antidote to the current swell of hate is sharing their stories.
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With Anti-Semitic Incidents in Schools on the Rise, Teachers Grapple With Holocaust Education
April 30, 2019
Educators across the country are grappling with how to make the lessons of the Holocaust relevant to children at a time when it is vanishing from the collective memory and anti-Semitism is on the rise.