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Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
- 5 min
- 183.4K
- Yad Vashem
In the fall of 1944, Nazi authorities ordered the creation of a propaganda film in Theresienstadt, a ghetto and concentration camp in the German-occupied region of the former Czechoslovakia. 1 The film—a portion of which is featured here—seemed to show Jewish prisoners happy and thriving.
- August 1944 to 1945
- 60.0269
- 00:07:31
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum
The film, which displayed supposedly happy and healthy Jews, was part of a larger Nazi program to use Theresienstadt as a tool to discredit reports of the genocide of Jews reaching the Western Allies and neutral countries.
Excerpt of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful.
Nov 9, 2015 · The project is pulling together films that focus on the rise of Nazism and its role in Jewish and non-Jewish life in Austria. Some of the 50 films were home movies, others were...
- 7 min
- Katie Nodjimbadem
1,265 hours of historical film, dating primarily from the 1920s to 1948, covering: Prewar Jewish and Roma/Sinti life. Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Nazi rise to power. Persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe. Nazi racial science and propaganda. Internment camps. Deportations of Jews to ghettos and concentration camps. Refugees
A Film Unfinished is an examination of a lesser-known reel from an infamous Nazi propaganda film exposes how the Reich manufactured scenes of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto.
