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Four non-Jewish resistance fighters who were sent to Nazi concentration camps in World War II bear witness to the Jewish Holocaust and provide a reminder of Nazi actions at camps like Auschwitz. They are Pierre Troadec (a Frenchman), Reidar Dittman (a Norwegian), Vera Laska (a Czech), and Irina Kharina (a Russian).

Many people have seen the photograph of a small boy, his arms raised in surrender, as a German soldier trains his machine gun on him. The photograph has come to symbolize the suffering of the Jewish people during the Holocaust. Television crews from France and Finland investigated this photograph to find out what happened to this little boy. This video, about the life of Tsvi Nussbaun, answers that question. Dr. Nussbaun now lives in New York State....

Three true stories of teenagers who survived the horrors of the Holocaust.

Karoussel, named for a cabaret at Theresienstadt that Kurt Geron (a film star of Weimar Germany) had created, shows life and fate intermeshed with the decadence of Weimar Germany, along with the anti-semitism of pre-war Europe leading up to the Holocaust.

A forgotten classic and a film of passionate restraint, made by and about Jewish Displaced Persons. Produced in the American zone of occupied Germany in the aftermath of World War II, this first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish point of view has the power of a collective self-portrait. The young hero is deported in the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, jumps an Auschwitz-bound transport to take his chances in the countryside,...

Account of Jewish G.I.'s and the victims of concentration camps.

Describes the efforts of ordinary Danish citizens, who, after the Gestapo began to round up the Danish Jews, banded together with resisters and created a rescue operation that hid and transported over 7,000 of their countrymen across the water to Sweden. Features the testimony of prisoners and saboteurs, the rescuers and the rescued.

Flossenburg, the "forgotten camp" was the third largest Nazi Concentration Camp in Germany. From 1938-1945, more than 100,000 inmates from all over Europe were imprisoned in the main camp and its more than 100 subcamps. As the U.S. Army closed in on the camp in April of 1945, the Nazis marched more thank 16,000 Jews on "Death Marches" under the harshest of conditions; thousands perished. Utilizing archival footage, the illustrations and diaries of...

"On this adventure, hosts Chris Orr and Dave Santina go on a two-day hike and campout on the Tahoe Meadows to Spooner Summit segment of the Tahoe Rim Trail (TRT). Mark Kimbrough, the Executive Director of the Tahoe Rim Trail Association, and Jay Howard, a Resource Ranger with Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park, guide them on this trip. It is a visually stunning excursion full of breathtaking views of Lake Tahoe and Marlette Lake. The hikers cover the 23...