The discovery of a lockbox buried in the basement of a former Jewish midwestern merchant's store would unlock a half century old secret. The papers inside would reveal a family's story of rescue, sacrifice and courage. In the late 1930's, David and his son Sidney Plaut owned a small shop in Goshen, Indiana. The Plauts witnessed first hand the persecution of the Jews in Germany. They decided to take action by sponsoring and assisting 28 Jewish refugees immigrate into the United States. This documentary chronicles their amazing story as they risked their business and livelihood to provide a vital passage for Jews escaping the Holocaust.

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

Documentary brings the time of the Holocaust to life and provides insight into the mind of the organ...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

This story follows one man's quest to uncover the origins and reveal the mysteries of a possible Hol...

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing im...

Eva Mozes Kor, who survived Josef Mengele's cruel twin experiments in the Auschwitz concentration ca...

In 1994, film producer Patrick Sobelman recorded the testimony of his grandmother Golda Maria Tondov...

The 43 Group was an English anti-fascist group set up by Jewish ex-servicemen in the immediate wake ...

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romania...

A documentary about the life of Jewish children forced to live in the Theresienstadt concentration c...

Holocaust survivors, children of survivors, and grandchildren - as well as German freedom fighters -...

13 years ago, director Bob Entrop made the film A piece of blue in the sky, the first film in the Ne...

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its m...
This Emmy Award-winning documentary traces the rise of Nazism in general and the career of Adolf Eic...

Holocaust survivors describe their experiences being interred at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentrati...

The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on ...

Among the millions of victims of the Nazi madness during the Second World War, Pierre Seel was charg...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eli...