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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Up to 30,000 Jews may have fled to Europe's forests, arming themselves to fight the Nazis, with rebellions in other ghettos and in some camps. Rare archival footage, historical photographs, and original artwork by partisan fighter Alexander Bogen document the lost history.
Author
Series
I survived volume 9
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
Publisher
KOCH Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Contrary to the view of some that Jews caught up in the terror of Hitler's Europe were passive, this film highlights previously unknown stories of extraordinary men and women who exemplified courage and human dignity during the Holocaust. Features archival film and photos and new sequences shot on location.
6) The avengers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Riveting, poignant and uplifting, The Avengers is a powerful exploration of resistance and revenge, of courage and dedication, and an inside look at some of the intrepid individuals who fought against the Holocaust and the nazi occupation of Europe.
Rich Cohen, author of the acclaimed Tough Jews, again narrates a little-known episode of Jewish history, this time altering what we thought we knew about the Holocaust.
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Rich Cohen, author of the acclaimed Tough Jews, again narrates a little-known episode of Jewish history, this time altering what we thought we knew about the Holocaust.
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Author
Language
English
Description
"As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but she finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books.Widower Paul Aubrey wants nothing more than to return to the States with his little girl, but the US Army...
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 study guide (29 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) + 1 songbook (10 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
How does a community respond to a threat so vast and inhuman as to beggar the imagination? How does an individual resist that threat, when resistance may bring harm to the very people one is trying to defend? This documentary records the testimony of Holocaust survivors who, as young Jewish men and women in the Lithuanian city of Vilna, engaged in armed resistance against the Nazis, often in opposition to fellow Jews. Politically active Jewish youth,...
9) In darkness
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color, black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Narrates the remarkable journey of Hannah Senesh, a young Hungarian poet and diarist, paratrooper and resistance fighter. Told through Hannah's letters, diaries, poems, and the recollections of those who knew her, the film traces Hannah's life from childhood in Palestine to her daring WWII mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Narrated by Joan Allen.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear - including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters--escapees from a nearby ghetto--hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag band of men and boys into a disciplined force that accomplishes...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the most important untold stories of World War II. The light of days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who helped weaponize Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland--some still in their teens--became the nerves of a wide-ranging...
Series
Contributions in women's studies volume no. 37
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
xv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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