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"During World War Two, in the prison camp Terezin, a group of Jewish children and their teacher planted and nurtured a smuggled-in sapling. Over time, fewer and fewer children were left to care for the little tree, but those who remained kept lovingly sharing their water with it. When the war finally ended and the prisoners were rescued, the sapling had grown into a strong five-foot-tall maple. Nearly eight years later the tree's six hundred descendants...
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The Allied High Command hides the true human cost of D-Day invasions, both for the allied soldiers and for French citizens. Canada's master of propaganda, John Grierson, explains why "withholding the truth" is not the same as spreading lies. Germany invites members of the International Committee of the Red Cross to tour a detention camp near Prague called Theresienstadt to quell rumors of mass Jewish extermination-a Nazi propaganda triumph. The firebombing...
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Helga's Diary is a young girl's remarkable first-hand account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II. The drawings and paintings that Helga made during her time in Terezin, which accompany this diary, were published in 1998 in the book Draw What You See (Zeichne, was Du siehst)
12) Holocaust
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Follows the tragedy and triumph of the Weiss family of Berlin and intertwines their fate as European Jews with the story of a German family, the Dorfs, whose members include a high-ranking Nazi officer. Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass" occurs and the Weiss family suffer a series of unspeakable tragedies in the aftermath.