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Victim of machination, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced in December 1894 to deportation for high treason. His wife Lucie made a pact with him: to live, whatever the cost, while awaiting rehabilitation. For five years, the Dreyfus couple exchanged hundreds of letters.
Daniel Chanoch was deported to Auschwitz at only 9-years-old. Now, at the age of 91, he recounts in a touching and open manner his incredible odyssey from the Jewish ghetto in Lithuania through six concentration camps to Mandatory Palestine.
“I return to Poland 25 years after directing a film about the traces of a destroyed Jewish world…. Upon the ruins of the past, we look for signs like pieces of a puzzle that built our history, our memory, our emotions.” (Julien Donada)
We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism actually was. Resistance provides a much-needed corrective to the myth of Jewish passivity.
Rothschild stands for one of the most powerful banking families - representative of the fate of many wealthy Jewish families before World War II. To this day, however, the mysterious and fascinating “Rothschild” name is the subject of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and smear campaigns.
Netherlands, WWII. Willem Arondeus, a painter and Frieda Belinfante, a cellist, used their artistic skills to forge identity cards that saved thousands of Jews. Stephen Fry leads us to Amsterdam to discover why this incredible story has remained largely hidden until the present day.
