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Concentration camps Czech Republic Terezín (Ústecký kraj) History Eichmann, Adolf 1906-1962 Foreign films Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Czechoslovakia Personal narratives Jewish councils Czech Republic Terezín (Ústecký kraj) Biography Motion pictures, French Murmelstein, Benjamin 1905-1989 Nazi propaganda Poland Ethnic relations Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)Filter By Subjects
Concentration camps Czech Republic Terezín (Ústecký kraj) History Eichmann, Adolf 1906-1962 Foreign films Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Czechoslovakia Personal narratives Jewish councils Czech Republic Terezín (Ústecký kraj) Biography Motion pictures, French Murmelstein, Benjamin 1905-1989 Nazi propaganda Poland Ethnic relations Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)Summary: The Nazi extermination of Jews is examined through interviews of survivors, witnesses and perpetrators and through footage of the sites of the death camps and environs as they appear today. Those interviewed include Jewish survivors of the death camps and the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Polish farmers and villagers who lived near the camps and Nazis who worked in the camps and the ghettos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1975 Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only 'Elder of the Jews' not to have been killed during the war. From Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014