Place of reproduction:
Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2012
Reproduction note:
Previously released as DVD Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Footnote:
Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012)
This edition in English
Description:
A short video about the Wannsee conference, where Senior Nazi officials gathered in 1942 to plan for the deportation and extermination of European Jews. Primary evidence of the conference includes a list of statistics on the number of Jews in different parts of the world and some documents about the methods of extermination that had been tried out on Jewish communities. The conference was a milestone in the history of Nazi Germany--it was the point at which the systematic genocide of the Jewish population was planned and approved
A Jewish woman born in Germany in the 1920s remembers her brother who was executed by the Gestapo for supporting the resistance movement. This short video can be used as a lesson starter in KS3 history. Anneliese Knoop Graf reads a letter written by her brother Willi Graf just before he was executed. Willi was a member of the White Rose resistance group. Anneliese explains that she was forced to join the Bund Deutsche Meudel, a Nazi-run organisation for girls; but dedicated much of the rest of her life to her brother's memory
Set in modern day Berlin, a Jewish man who survived Nazi Germany describes his extraordinary personal experiences in the second world war. This lesson starter is ideal for use as an oral history resource at KS3. Born to a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Gad Beck was a young boy when he ran away from home and disguised his identity in order to survive the anti-Jewish regulations that dominated life in 1940s Berlin
This short video focuses on the life of one of few British Jews who was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and is ideal for use as a lesson starter in KS3 history. Leon Greenman, who died aged 97 in 2008, lived alone in Ilford at the end of his life and his house is full of personal possessions, books, documents and notes from different points of his long life. Ruth-Anne Lenga from the Jewish Museum examines the artefacts