SORROW: THE NAZI LEGACY (TV)
Summary
Winner of an International Emmy Award, this documentary from Sweden aimed at young people chronicles the journey of six teenagers of various ethnic backgrounds who travel through Germany and Poland to come to grips with the horrific treatment of European Jews by the Nazis. The teenagers visit Berlin, Warsaw, and the former concentration camps at Auschwitz and Majdanek. In Berlin, Gerhard Schoenberner, the curator and director of the Wannsee Museum, gives the teenagers a tour of the house where the infamous "Wannsee Conference" was held.
After a tour of Auschwitz, the teenagers hear a moving story told by the lone survivor of one family, Ruth Elias. Born in Czechoslovakia, Elias lived in Israel and was a prisoner at Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and Taucha. She describes with horror Dr. Josef Mengele's "medical" experiments on her newborn daughter. Upon their return to Stockholm, the teenagers meet with journalist Niklas Frank -- son of Hans Frank, the governor general of occupied Poland who was known as "the butcher of Poland." Frank introduces himself as "the son of a criminal" and attempts to explain his opinion of why his father became a Nazi. The teenagers try to comprehend the magnitude of the crimes against the Jewish people, and attempt to understand how such a genocide could have been allowed to occur.
(This program was a co-recipient of an International Emmy Award in the children and young people category. Swedish portions are dubbed in English.)
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Michael Finkelstein and Sue-ann Friedman, 1996.
Details
- NETWORK: Sveriges Television (Sweden)
- DATE: April 13, 1992
- RUNNING TIME: 0:32:22
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:27698
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Anti-Semitism; Auschwitz (concentration camp); Genocide; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust survivors; International Collection - Sweden; Jews - Political and social conditions; Majdanek (concentration camp); Nazism; Prisoners of war (World War II); War (International law); World War II - Personal narratives; World War II - Concentration camps - Germany; World War II - Concentration camps - Poland; World War II - Jews
- SERIES RUN: Sveriges Television (Sweden) - TV, 1992
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Gregor Nowinski … Director, Narrator
- Daniel Nowinski … Production (Misc.), Interpreter
- Alan Pryke … Production (Misc.), Translation
- Wlodek Gulgowski … Music by
- Ruth Elias
- Hans Frank
- Niklas Frank
- Josef Mengele
- Gerhard Schoenberner