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Movie Description
Steven Spielberg presents this wrenching documentary containing videotaped testimonials from Holocaust survivors interspersed with archival footage of conditions at the Nazi concentration camps. The video features footage not shown in the broadcast version, as well as a conversation between Spielberg and actor Ben Kingsley.
Synopsis
Steven Spielberg, who directed the Academy-Award winning "Schindler's List," presents and appears in this documentary about the Holocaust and its survivors.
Those who lived through the horrors perpetrated by Hitler and the Third Reich discuss their haunting, terrifying memories. Photographs and archival footage provide direct images of this past, and chronicle the historical events that led to the deaths of 6 million Jews and others considered "undesirable" by the Nazis.
In addition, actor Ben Kingsley goes behind the scenes at Survivors of the SHOAH Visual History Foundation -- an organization dedicated to making sure that this act of genocide is never forgotten... and never repeated.
Film Notes
Complete Title: "Steven Spielberg Presents Survivors of the Holocaust."
Produced in association with the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
"Shoah" is the Hebrew word for Holocaust.
All net proceeds from the sales of the video will be donated to the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
For more information call: (1-800) 661-2091 (USA & Canada)
or (818) 777-7802 (International). Or write to:
Foundation
P.O. Box 3168
Los Angeles, CA 90078
Additional credits for the Introduction: Lisa Cossettini & Michael Magolis Lefevre (assistant editors), Kelly Breidenbach & Sidney Sherman (research & clearance associates), Michael Berenbaum, Adelle Chabelski & Michael Nutkiewicz (historical consultants), Greg Rothschild (sound), and Jeff Wannberg (sound effects editor).
Credits for Turner Original Productions: Vivian Schiller (senior producer), Jacoba Atlas (supervising producer), and Pat Mitchell (executive producer).
Interviewees in the Introduction: Dr. Paula Draper (Historian); Ari Zev (Director of Research & Training Shoah Foundation); Olga Bitterman, Silvia Grohs Martin, Sam Kulawy, Frances Katz, Paul & Judith Schneiderman (Survivors); Carol Stulberg (Interviewer); Michelle Kleinert (Regional Coordinator); Michael Engel (Director of Production); Susan Ardo Berger (International Production Manager); Michael Nutkiewicz (Chief Historioan); Manuel Franco, Rodney Williams, and Nancy Valdivia (Students).
Survivors Interviewed in the Feature: Sol Liber & Family, Fred Buch, Emilie Stern, Klara Halberstadt, Sigi Hart, Hellmuth Szprycer, Siegfried, Halbreich, Rachel Goldman-Miller, Henry Rosemarin, Mel Mermelstein, Fred Jackson, Claire Weisz, Si Frumkin, Lili Weinberg, Dr. Gottfried Bloch, Andrew Meisels, Adolf Deutsch, Mollie Stauber, Renée Firestone, Helen Chalef, Carol Redlich, Nathan Fleischer, Silvia Grohs-Martin, Alice Sylvester, Shony Alex Braun, Sarah Salamon, Dr. Alfred Pasternak, Alexander Kuechel, Erika Jacoby, Gertruda Milchová, Henia Schweitzer, Trudy Englander, Benny Stark, Stanley Goodrich, Solomon Wieder, Eugene Tabak, Michael Popik, Diane Jacobs, Shari Braun, Bela Cislowski & Family.
Copyright 1995 Turner Original Productions Inc.
Industry Reviews
"...This 75-minute heart-wrencher offers first-hand reminiscences from once-youthful concentration camp prisoners who seem grateful to unburden themselves of life-long memories..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (04/19/1996)
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