The Holocaust
The Last Descendants: The Stories of Mordechai David Gantz & Shalom Tepper
This page on the IDF website introduces the concept of « The Last Descendants » – survivors who immigrated to Palestine alone after losing their entire families in the Holocaust, only to
Jewish Life Before the Holocaust
This informative documentary [04:37] published by Yad Vashem shows original footage of Jewish life before the Holocaust. It also includes texts from pre-war diary entries, notebooks, and letters of children’s
Henryk Ross: A Jewish Photographer in the Lodz Ghetto
This video [04:01] illustrates the pivotal historical role of Henryk Ross, a Jew hired to be the official photographer of the Lodz ghetto. His job was to take identification photos
The Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz
In this interview [03:50], Dario Gabbai recalls his participation in the Sonderkommando revolt in Auschwitz-II Birkenau, on October 7, 1944. The Nazis forced the Jewish Sonderkommandos to undertake the hellish tasks of
The Story Behind the Song Ani Ma’amin
This film [03:52], produced by Chabad of Venice, tells the moving story of cantor Azriel David Fastig’s composition of a new melody for « Ani Ma’amin, » while being transported to Treblinka in