Selviytyäkseen hengissä keskitysleirin kauheuksista Harry Haft joutui vangitsijoita viihdyttääkseen nyrkkeilemään muita vankeja vastaan Toisen maailmansodan jälkeen muistojensa ja syyllisyytensä vainoamina hän yrittää löytää uudelleen ensirakkautensa. Löytääkseen naisen hän ottaa osaa merkittäviin otteluihin nyrkkeilylegendoja, kuten Rocky Marcianoa, vastaan Yhdysvalloissa.
Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Neus Català returns to France, where she recalls her life under the Nazi yoke.
On March 24, 1944, in the heart of Nazi Germany, 76 British, Canadian, Norwegian and French pilots who were held in Stalag Luft III, a prison camp of the Luftwaffe, escaped. Unique testimony from the last survivors, recreations and today’s digital images sheds new light on the audacious escape.
Tarina keskitysleiriltä selviytyneestä naisesta, Nellystä, jonka kasvot ovat pahoin vaurioituneet. Sodan päätyttyä Nelly käy läpi useita leikkauksia, joiden myötä hänen ulkonäkönsä muuttuu. Nainen vaihtaa nimensä ja aloittaa uuden elämän. Juuri ennen sotaa Johnnyn kanssa avioitunut Nelly päättää etsiä miehen käsiinsä. Johnny löytyy, mutta tämä ei tunnista vaimoaan. Nelly epäilee miehensä luovuttaneen hänet vapaaehtoisesti Gestapon kynsiin eikä sen vuoksi paljasta tälle todellista henkilöllisyyttään. Tilanne saa merkillisen käänteen, kun Johnny pyytää Nellyä esittämään vaimoaan. Johnny tahtoo nimittäin saada haltuunsa edesmenneeksi luulemansa vaimon perinnön...
In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes from Spain; but is captured by the Nazis in 1940 and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria, a year later. There, he works as a prisoner in the SS Photographic Service, hiding, between 1943 and 1945, around 20,000 negatives that later will be presented as evidence during several trials conducted against Nazi war criminals after World War II.
In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
Short documentary on people who survived the Nazi concentration camps.
Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of war and anti-Semitic fanaticism will lead each of them down very different paths.
For six female Holocaust survivors, liberation from the camps marked the beginning of a lifelong struggle.
The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on the 14th October 1943, in one of the biggest and most successful prison revolts of WWII, the inmates fought back.
The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. It also explores the history of German racism and examines the treatment of Black prisoners-of-war. The film uses interviews with survivors and their families as well as archival material to document the Black German Holocaust experience.
Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, the last two survivors of the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, recount the horrors they experienced during the war and talk about their lives after their escape in a prisoner uprising in 1943. Willenberg would go on to become a hero of the 1944 Warsaw uprising while Taigman would be called as a witness during the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann.
The story of the more than nine thousand Spaniards who were interned in the Nazi concentration camps, through the testimony of a group of survivors who tell what life and death were like in Mauthausen, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Ravensbrück.
Four young women joined the Resistance to fight Nazi oppression and brutality in occupied France. They were arrested and deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where they helped each other to survive. SISTERS IN RESISTANCE captures their recollections and the intense friendship that has survived with them.
One of the first ‘frogmen’ in the Navy Reserve fights to survive missions behind enemy lines and his own capture at the Mauthausen concentration camp.
An attempt to erect a virtual memorial for the victims of the Bosnian war, using archive material, videos and statements from survivors in a 3D animation.