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Eureka! Classics | THE ENTIRE ‘HOLOCAUST’ SERIES 6-DVD BOX SET

Contents :

Disc 1. Holocaust – The Yellow Star
Disc 2. Holocaust – The Liberation of Auschwitz
Disc 3. Holocaust – The Liberation of Majdanek
Disc 4. Holocaust – Theresienstadt Camp, Deception and Reality
Disc 5. Holocaust – Concentration Camps Ravensbruck and Buchenwald
Disc 6. Holocaust – Concentration Camps Dachau and Sachsenhausen

(PLEASE NOTE : THESE HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARIES CONTAIN SOME EXPLICIT SCENES THAT ARE OF A VIOLENT AND DISTURBING NATURE)

Disc One: Holocaust – The Yellow Star

Adolf Eichmann was asked how he could explain the killing of 6 million Jews. He answered “One hundred dead are a catastrophe; a million dead are a statistic”.

From the day I was liberated from the concentration camp, I have devoted my life to tracking down those people responsible for these crimes.
Most of us who survived the camps are no longer alive and meanwhile, half of the world’s population have been born since the war. It’s important that we who survive inform people who are too young to know the past from personal knowledge.

The murder of 6 million Jews must never be reduced to a statistic. We must not only remember the dead, we must also explain what happened to them and why. Only in that way can we keep such a disaster from ever happening again.

The film “Yellow Star” is an important document, it serves as a remembrance, a lesson and a warning.

Disc Two: Holocaust – The Liberation of Auschwitz

ONLY 18 MINUTES OF THIS FOOTAGE HAS EVER BEEN SHOWN BEFORE IN THE WEST. THIS WAS RELEASED BY THE RUSSIANS AS PROSECUTION EVIDENCE AT THE NUREMBERG WAR CRIME TRIALS.

Captain Alexander Vrotsos is the only surviving cameraman from the Soviet film crew attached to the 1st Ukrainian Front, who in Jan/Feb 1945 filmed the liberation of the infamous death camp, Auschwitz. He describes the feelings that he and his comrades felt at the horrific scenes that confronted the brave liberators.

A majority of the prisoners had been forced by the Germans to leave the camp as the Red Army approached Auschwitz, and many had perished on their “Death marches”.

Vorontsov was able to record the plight of the remaining 6000 prisoners, the pitiful remains of the dead, the results of the Soviet investigations and the closing of Auschwitz, February 28th 1945.

Disc Three: Holocaust – The Liberation of Majdanek

THIS RUSSIAN FOOTAGE HAS NEVER BEEN SHOWN IN THE WEST. MAJDANEK WAS UNIQUE, AS THE ONLY CONCENTRATION CAMP STILL OPERATIONAL AT THE TIME OF IT’S LIBERATION.

The concentration and extermination camp Majdanek, near Lublin, was erected in 1941, and liberated on July 23rd 1944. The speed of the Soviet advance gave the Germans no time to destroy or conceal evidence of the atrocities they had committed.

This rare and Stark documentary graphically portrays the terrible tragedy of the two million innocent victims exterminated and the frightful efficiency of the so-termed ‘Nazi Death Factory’.

Captured on films are SS Officers and Kapos appearing before a Russian Tribunal at Lublin. They are confronted by surviving inmates who are giving evidence against the accused for their hideous war crimes. It culminated in their deserved conviction and execution by hanging.

Disc Four: Holocaust: Concentration Camp – Theresienstadt Camp

Between 1941 and 1945, the little fortress town of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia was the transit camp to the death camps in the East for thousands of Czech, German, Austrian and Dutch Jews.

The Jews deported there from 1941 onwards were led to believe it was an ‘end camp’ from where they would not be deported further; the thousands of old and prominent Jews from Germany. Austria and Holland deported there from 1942 onwards were promised a comfortable and peaceful life in the ‘Reich home for the aged’ and hoodwinked into signing over to the S.S. their properties and assets. In reality, they also would be sent off to the death camps in the east.

From 1943, the Nazis developed Theresienstadt into a ‘show camp’ with which they could deceive the outside world as to what was really happening to the Jews of Europe. A large scale ‘beautification’ programme gave the camp a nice looking outer facade.

In June 1944, a Danish and International Red Cross delegation allowed itself to be completely deceived when they inspected this fraudulent ‘Jewish Settlement’.

Disc Five: Holocaust: Concentration Camps – Ravensbruck & Buchenwald

Buchenwald Concentration Camp, After being established in the Summer of 1937, Buchenwald soon developed into one of the largest concentration camps in Germany, in its eight years of existence, approximately 250,000 inmates from 35 countries were imprisoned here, More than 50,000 of them died during the camps reign of terror. They were systematically culled. The inmates were submitted to the life of slaves, working for the S.S. and the Third Reich. They were deliberately made to suffer by hunger and beatings until death, and were easily replaced by a regular influx of new prisoners using many previously unpublished photographic documents and statements by witnesses to the events; this film documentary reconstructs the history of the camp.

Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, Women from more than twenty countries were inmates between 1939 and 1945 in the Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany. They were maltreated, humiliated and tortured to death. The aim of this documentary is to keep alive the memory of the fate and the inhuman treatment that was suffered.

Disc 6: Holocaust : Concentration Camps – Dachau and Sachsenhausen

Dachau Concentration Camp was situated 12 miles northwest of Munich in Bavaria. Built in the early days of the Nazi regime it was one of three camps set up in 1933 to form the basis for a concentration camp system, initially filled with communist and Jewish inmates Dachau’s doors were soon opened to many other “undesirables” that the Nazis wanted to eradicate.

Dachau was one of the worst and most notorious death camps and the scene of hundreds of medical experiments carried out on inmates, during 1941 and 1942 over 500 horrendous operations were performed on healthy prisoners. In the last year of the war more than 40,000 prisoners perished in Dachau.

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, In Oranienburg, a small town immediately to the north of Berlin, in which one of the first unofficial concentration camps by the SA was established in 1933. The administration of the concentration camps was instituted in Sachsenhausen a district of Oranienburg since 1936. The town was home to one of the largest concentration camps in the German Reich.

The construction of the camp, the day to day life in it, and the suffering of the 200,000 prisoners from many countries are the subjects of this film.

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