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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Buildings Concentration camps Europe Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Camps de concentration Drame Hiroshima-shi (Japan) Drama Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures Majdanek (Concentration camp) Buildings Man-woman relationships Drama Motion pictures, French World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war DramaFilter By Subjects
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Buildings Concentration camps Europe Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Camps de concentration Drame Hiroshima-shi (Japan) Drama Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures Majdanek (Concentration camp) Buildings Man-woman relationships Drama Motion pictures, French World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war DramaSummary: Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003