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Liberation
BOOKS
Robert H. Abzug, Inside the Vicious Heart (Oxford).
Jon Bridgman, The End
of the Holocaust: The Liberation of the Camps (Areopagitica Press).
Liberation (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).
AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIAL — Liberation
To Bear Witness
41 minutes, 16mm, color.
Recommended
for ages 16 and up.
Filmed at the 1981 Liberators
Conference in Washington, D.C., this film presents an extraordinary series
of interviews with survivors and liberators of the Nazi concentration
camps.
Liberation
100 minutes.
Recommended for high school an up. The film deals with the Allied campaign
to liberate Europe and the Nazi genocidal war against the Jews. It begins
in 1942 and ends with the opening of the death camps.
The Long Way Home
116 Minutes.
Recommended
for junior high school and up. This film deals with the period from the
liberation to the creation of the State of Israel and the challenges the
survivors faced in recreating their identity from the remnants of their
destroyed world.
In Their Words
30 minutes, videotape.
Recommended
for junior high school grades and up.
This award-winning tape was produced by the Southeastern Florida Holocaust Memorial Center and contains interviews with Holocaust survivors and American soldiers who participated in the liberation of the extermination camps.
Memory of a Moment
10 minutes, videotape,
color, black and white.
Recommended
for all ages.
In this MacNeil/Lehrer
News Hour segment, two men whose lives touched 40 years ago are reunited
on the anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald. Waisman who had been
imprisoned in the German concentration camp and Leon Bass, a black American
who participated in the liberation of the camp, recall their experiences.
Bass was the first black man Waisman had ever seen. As a black soldier
in a segregated army, Bass’s personal pain gave him a special perspective.
Reunion
21 minutes, videotape,
black and white.
Recommended
for junior high school grades and up.
Documents the liberation of prisoners from Nazi concentration camps and describes in human terms the formidable logistics of returning the displaced persons to their homes after the war.
You Are Free
20 minutes, videotape,
color and black and white
Recommended
for junior high school grades and up.
This film focuses on interviews
with five people who were present when the liberation of the camps took
place,
four Americans who liberated the camps and one woman who survived them.