Holocaust Films Database
The Holocaust as Seen by Through Film by Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg is a special book that adds to his other authored that educate students, educators and the community about the Holocaust and assists in meeting the New Jersey mandate that all students must learn about the Holocaust and genocide.
This book in particular blends the specific cognitive, historical aspects of the atrocity with excellent literature which helps meet the new common core standards through the pictures, questions, discussions and research associated with each story.
This site contains a brief description of a select collection of Holocaust related and inspired films, along with relevant questions to spark dynamic classroom discussion. It is not designed to be an exhaustive list, but rather, numerous movies, documentaries, and films that the author believes are of value to students of the Holocaust and their teachers.
A question of life
Menachem Frenkel, a Jewish boy of Polish origin born in Belgium, deciphers his childhood experience and his origins
A Survivor Who Volunteers with the Police Returned to Auschwitz
"To march here in uniform is to come full circle"
Menachem Frenkel, 76, was 4 years old when the Germans invaded Belgium, caught his family, and sent them to a concentration camp. Frenkel was saved, but his father was killed in Auschwitz.
This week he came full circle after arriving as part of a police delegation, wearing his police uniform to the place that symbolizes for him the worst of all - the extermination camp Auschwitz in Poland. "To march here in police uniform is to come full circle," he said with tears in his eyes.
Frenkel, a police volunteer for the last eleven years, was born in Belgium. When the Nazis invaded the country, his family escaped to France. When the Germans came to France, they promised the French authorities that they would not touch Jews with French citizenship; however, those who came from other countries were not protected.
"Because of the great shortage of food, my father had to register us in order to receive food stamps. Soon the Nazis caught us and sent us to a concentration camp from where my father was sent to Auschwitz and murdered," Frenkel recounted.
Frenkel was saved, and at the end of the war, his mother found him and his sister. They made Aliyah to Israel. After his retirement, he decided to volunteer for the police.
"The country has done so much for us I decided I wanted to give back. I have already been to Poland but this year it is different – I returned here wearing my police uniform. I will march with pride in Auschwitz. To stand by the gas chambers knowing that my father was killed right here is very powerful and stirring."
The book was published by Docostory Publishing Ltd with the help of:
- Yad Vashem
- The Holocaust and Heroism Memorial Authority
- The foundation to support memoirs of Holocaust survivors
- Azrieli Group
- The Azrieli Foundation
- Claims Conference
- The Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany
Menachem Frenkel lit one of six torches at the State Opening Ceremony of Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in 2006. English English Hebrew Hebrew
Book
The Holocaust As Seen Through Film; Version 2018 by Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg (Author) Format: Paperback / Kindle Publication date: May 17, 2018
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Others Books
Does Judaism believe in Gilgul? Transmigrations of Souls Echoes of The Holocaust: Survivors and Their Children and Grandchildren Speak Out Rosenberg English Holocaust Haggadah For Passover: Holocaust Poems and Essays to Supplement the Seder Holocaust Survivors and Their Families: Remember, Reflect And Reminisce Genesis of the Palestinian Authority
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