The Holocaust
Jewish Life Before the Holocaust
This informative documentary [04:37] published by Yad Vashem shows original footage of Jewish life before the Holocaust. It also includes texts from pre-war diary entries, notebooks, and letters of children’s
Henryk Ross: A Jewish Photographer in the Lodz Ghetto
This video [04:01] illustrates the pivotal historical role of Henryk Ross, a Jew hired to be the official photographer of the Lodz ghetto. His job was to take identification photos
An Uprising in Auschwitz
In this interview [03:50], Dario Gabbai recalls his participation in the Sonderkommando Uprising in Auschwitz-II Birkenau, on October 7, 1944. The Nazis forced the Jewish Sonderkommandos to undertake the hellish tasks of
The Story Behind the Song Ani Ma’amin
This film [03:52], produced by Chabad of Venice, tells the moving story of cantor Azriel David Fastig’s composition of a new melody for “Ani Ma’amin,” while being transported to Treblinka in