The Holocaust

In 1940, when Mark Goldfinger was 9, the SS set up an academy for training killers near his hometown of Rabka, Poland. This is the amazing account of what he saw and how he survived. (Many viewers may find details described to be extremely disturbing. Viewer discretion advised.)

The amazing, firsthand account of 92-year-old Denis Avey, a non-Jewish, British soldier who smuggled himself into Auschwitz as a POW. (Many viewers may find details described to be extremely disturbing. Viewer discretion advised.)

Auschwitz survivor Freddie Knoller shares his amazing story of survival, including how the Gestapo in Paris thought he was a German and hired him as a translator. (Many viewers may find details described to be extremely disturbing. Viewer discretion advised.)

Austrian-Jewish Holocaust survivor, Fritz Sternhell, relates his first-hand experiences as a child during the German annexation of Austria.

Victor Greenberg tells the story of how he grew up in the small village of Majdan, now in Slovakia. In 1941, when he was 12 years old, he and his family were among the very few to escape when the entire Jewish population of the town was massacred. He was a prisoner in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen, where he was finally liberated by the Americans. (Many viewers may find details described to be extremely disturbing. Viewer discretion advised.)

Ben Helfgott, born in Lodz, Poland, 1929, is a Holocaust survivor and former champion weightlifter representing Great Britain in the Olympics. This is his personal story of survival and triumph. (Many viewers may find details described to be extremely disturbing. Viewer discretion advised.)

As a child, Professor Ladislaus Löb watched as anti-Semitism slowly tightened its grip on the Hungarian nation, culminating in the Natzi occupation, beginning in 1944. He later wrote a book describing how Rezső Kasztner negotiated with Eichmann, saving Löb and 1,700 other Jews. Kasztner was later accused of collaborating with the Natzis.

The Rohr and Feuchtwanger families both emerged from the neo-orthodox movement of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. Sami Rohr was both a prominent supporter of Chabad and a patron of Jewish literary endeavors. One of his favorite writers was the Jewish German novelist, Lion Feuchtwanger, who was a vocal critic of the Nazis. Lion's nephew, Edgar Feuchtwanger, grew up as a neighbor of Hitler.

George Schwab was ten years old when he witnessed the willing collaboration of his Latvian neighbors in the persecution and murder of Jews. Here he presents an overview of the development of antisemitism in Latvia and reads a chapter from his forthcoming memoir.

Solly Irving was just a boy when the Nazis invaded Poland. He was incarcerated in several concentration camps, including Buchenwald, and was liberated from Theresienstadt. This is his story.

In May 1939 the cruise ship S.S. St Louis sailed from Hamburg for Cuba with some 980 Jewish passengers fleeing from Nazi persecution. When Cuba refused them entry the ship went on to Florida, but the US government too refused them entry.

Ivor Perl was 11 years old when he arrived in Auschwitz. His parents and sisters perished there, only he and his older brother survived. This is the story of his survival.

An account of one of the historic train journeys arranged by Nicolas Winton, known as the 'Czech Kindertransport' which rescued over 600 children from Prague in July 1939.

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was deported to Auschwitz in December 1943. Due to her being an accomplished cellist she was saved and was made to join the Women's Orchestra. She was forced to play marches as the slave laborers left the camp for each day's work and gave concerts for the SS. In October 1944, with the Red Army closing in, Anita was taken to Bergen-Belsen where she stayed until its liberation by the British.

A heartbreaking look at some of the personalities involved in the gathering the Ringelblum Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.

A story of determination and fortitude: how members of one family were able to make their way to safety, leading up to and during the Second World War.

A poignant and personal account of oppression and salvation.

A harrowing first-hand tale of life and death in the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto.

A truly harrowing account of the years leading up to the Holocaust and the Holocaust itself.

Harrowing first hand account of the Stutthof Concentration camp.

Mindu Hornick MBE, describes her heart-wrenching experiences in Auschwitz and a slave-labor camp.

The Budapest House: A true story of a family caught up in the Hungarian Holocaust and the traumatic aftermath.

The story of a refugee's escape from Nazi Germany.

Born in Hungary in 1932, Agnes survived the Debrecen ghetto and, after her transport to Auschwitz was diverted due to an administrative error, she worked as a child laborer in the agricultural and armament labor camps of Austria. She returned to Hungary and lived under the Stalinist communist regime.

How Miriam Freedman survived the Holocaust in Slovakia.

Holocaust survivor John Dobai tells his story.

Marking 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz

The emergence of a moving story of scientific endeavor in the most challenging of conditions. (Some may find details described to be extremely disturbing. Viewer discretion advised.)

Sir Richard J. Evans—widely regarded as the preeminent historian of Nazi Germany—explores his life’s work and examines the rise of the Nazi regime.

Hans Mouwes, born in 1941, describes growing up hiding from the Nazis with a kind foster family in Amsterdam.