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Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The movie is nicely shot and sympathetically acted.."--Entertainment Weekly.
"..Achieves its grandeur.."--San Francisco Chronicle.
"..Inspiring and comes as a welcome reminder in this time of uncertainty that even in the face of astonishing evil, humanity and goodness can rise to the occasion."--Associated Press.
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The never-before-told story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and boldly committed to a life-threatening mission in Europe. Over two dangerous years they helped save scores of imperiled dissidents and refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation across Europe.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance....
Language
English
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Description
The incredible true story follows the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did.
7) One life
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Tells the truet story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis on the verge of World War II. Half a century later, he is haunted by the memory of those he could not save.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
This documentary tells the story of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, consul to Lithuania during World War II. Sugihara defied Tokyo authorities and wrote transit visas that allowed hundreds of Jewish families to flee Europe through Russia to Japan and other countries. Includes home movies, photographs, film footage, and interviews with Holocaust survivors who owe their lives to Chiune Sugihara.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Polish
Description
"Jan and Antonina Zabinski, the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo in Poland, saved nearly 300 Jews during the Second World War. This is a poignant documentary that is an extraordinary true story about the humanitarian spirit, as exemplified by two people who, with enormous personal risk to themselves, faced the most challenging circumstances with bravery and decency. In 1965, Jan and Antonina Zabinski were recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations."...
Publisher
First-Run Features
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Polish
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Description
A Jewish father takes his ultra-orthodox sons to Poland to find the Christian farmers who hid and saved their family during World War II, hoping to teach his sons about tolerance, trust and to recognize the potential decency of all people.
15) Holocaust heroes
Publisher
Discovery Education
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Examine the roots of the Holocaust, and meet some of the remarkable victims and survivors of its atrocities. Includes two feature segments: Who Betrayed Anne Frank? and Reunion: Children of La Hille.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Among the Righteous recounts Robert Satloff's eight-year effort to provide a hopeful response to the problems of Holocaust ignorance and denial in the Arab world by asking a question no one had ever before posed: Did any Arabs save any Jews during the Holocaust?"--http://www.pbs.org/newshour/among-the-righteous/about.html.
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The truce: Based on the life of Jewish-Italian author Primo Levi. As a man whose life is changed forever by World War II. His incredible adventure begins after the war ends as he embarks on a thousand-mile journey back home to Italy. Along the way he faces great odds, but rediscovers the simple joy of life that the war threatened to destroy forever, friendship, love, laughter and, most important of all, a sense of hope.
Edges of the Lord: A young...