Holocaust Shoah Survivor Movies

Filmmaker Peter Hegedus embarks on the challenging journey to make Sorella's Story, an immersive 360° film set on the beaches of Latvia in...

The documentary tells the life story of Margot Friedländer, a 101-year-old Berlin native who survived the Holocaust and was awarded the Federal...

An elderly Israeli Jew of Greek origins was sent to Greece to represent his town in a town twinning ceremony, however he went instead to search for...

Betty Van Sevenant, a young resistance fighter from Bruges, arrested in March 1942, was declared "Nacht und Nebel". She recounts her deportation to...

Henryk Greenberg is a Polish-born American who lost much of his family in the Holocaust. Certain of the location where his father and younger brother...

The power of an unbreakable bond between a mother and her daughter during the Holocaust. Her heartbreaking separation from her mother, her escape...

What starts out a standard talking head doc about one woman's experience in Auschwitz during WW2 turns into a picture of an aging Hungarian woman -...

A documentary about three teenage girls--Barbara Rodbell, Shulamit Lack, and Faye Schulman--and their efforts to survive the Jewish Holocaust in...

The story of Judge Jan-Robert von Renesse, who in the early 2000s fights against his own judicial system for the rights of Holocaust survivors and...

A young Holocaust survivor who descends into crime; an Italian-Jewish engineer who wants to see a movie; a German Christian who forgives her...

An Olympic middle-distance runner is persecuted by Nazis for being gay and subsequently survives Mauthausen camp. He flees to India, becomes a coach...

Through interviews we meet some of the people who risked their lives to hide Jewish children during World War II and how this experience has...

Fear and fascination arise in Muriel Grey when she remembers the figure of her father, who passed away when she was still very young. Thirty years...

L'Chaim! is an intimate portrait of a man with a rare and significant story. It is the tale of Chaim Lubelski. He gave up a career as a chess player...

From Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation comes Broken Silence, a series of five films about human courage, heroism,...

A pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference, says writer and journalist Markus Pape. Most of...

The incredible life of Jorge Semprún (1923-2011): son of a republican intellectual; exiled in the early days of the Spanish Civil War;...

An intimate profile of Hédi Fried, a Swedish writer, therapist and her little sister Livia Fränkel, both Holocaust survivors. While...