Films with: Schory, Noemi

Film unfinished

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film in an East German archive was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May of 1942, the film became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. The later discovery of a long-missing reel, including multiple takes and cameramen staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage. Presented is the raw footage in its entirety, falsely showing the 'good life' of Jewish urbanites. Included is an interview, and more. "Directed by ... Billy Wilder for the U.S. War Department in 1945, [this film] was originally intended for screening in occupied Germany and Austria and featured a German language soundtrack ... [T]he first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder."--

DVD 7892

Secret

During World War II, many Polish Jewish children were either hidden with Catholic families, or their own families managed to survive by hiding behind a Catholic Polish identity. After the war, these families kept this secret as a protection during the Communist era. Half a century later, thousands of younger Poles are finding that they come from Jewish families, and are struggling with this new identity, in a country with few Jews and a continuing history of anti-Semitism.

DVD 7054