in my opinion, the only film anybody needs to see about the Holocaust is Shoah... not sure but i think it's all on Youtube
Posted on 07/18/2013 3:10:08 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Nearly a dozen “long-lost, rarely seen” Soviet films and scores of screenplays that were never produced about the persecution of Jews during World War II have been revived and are featured in “The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe,” a new book released by Rutgers University Press this week.
“Those films have been pretty much just erased from history, really,” said the book’s author, Olga Gershenson, an associate professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Gershenson said that “basically half of all the Holocaust victims, nearly three million people, were murdered on the territory of the Soviet Union and it’s just not part of the popular public imagination. It’s just completely off the radar… people don’t think about what happened in the Soviet Union.”
While the history of the death camps in Germany and Poland is well-documented in historical films and books, what happened in the Soviet territories was sometimes called the “Holocaust by bullets,” where Jewish people were simply executed on the spot, she added.
The films were banned in the Soviet Union and screenplays that depicted the Jewish fate during World War II were denied permission for production
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All these years later, she told RIA Novosti, most of the filmmakers still living are in their 80s and 90s now. They had long given up hope of ever seeing the films made public, and were “overjoyed” to learn about her work. .....
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
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in my opinion, the only film anybody needs to see about the Holocaust is Shoah... not sure but i think it's all on Youtube
I got it at the library.
i saw it on PBS and Youtube
The films were banned in the Soviet Union and screenplays that depicted the Jewish fate during World War II were denied permission for production
Visited Dachau in 1983. Intensely moving experience. I’ll never forget it.
But it does not compare to the injustice of Trayvon Martin, who in a racist and homophobic rage attacked a community organizer and was killed.
sarcasm
i’m sure it was... so much death must leave something behind to mark it’s passing
Probably some of the most chilling depictions of the Holocaust actually were from the Made-For-TV series “War and Remembrance”.....the portrayal of Babi Yar was quite chilling.
We all agreed afterwards. When you walk through the gates ALL the joy that is in you dies. (one of the guys in our group made it about 10 feet inside the gates and turned and fled)
i remember seeing it, but don't remember it... have to look for it
kimda like i said, it HAS to leave something behind...
Does anyone know a link to the film with actual English subtitles? The only ones I can find on YouTube (four parts, each about 150 minutes in length) state the film is subtitled but it is not.
Thanks. BTTT.
click the CC button on the bottom right to turn on the captions
Thank you!
welcome...
I grew up around an old man who was there in the early years as a Polish Jewish national. Later came to England, where he was interned as an enemy alien, but was glad to be out. This was before they started on the final solution and made it into a death camp, so they just deported him.
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