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HOLOCAUST: THE CHILDREN (TV)

Summary

This program, narrated by Liv Ullmann, recalls the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps through archival footage, photo stills, and interviews with survivors who were children at the time of the Holocaust. Topics discussed include the following, among others: comments by painter Samuel Bak and opera singer Breda Kalef on living in fear every day after the German invasion of Poland; theater director Jack Garfein on how the German troops used intimidation along with weapons when gathering up Jews; surgeon Dr. Zvi H. Eyal on how people tried not to be deported to the concentration camps; business executive Jack P. Eisner on the rules imposed against Jews in the ghettos; remarks by attorney Dr. Sam Pisar on how quickly the children were separated from their families; college teacher Frieda Aaron on how children found hiding places while many of their parents were rounded up and killed; producer and director Dr. Joseph S. Kutrzeba on how the rounding up of Jews seemed to happen overnight; the way children who were hiding knew their families had been taken away and killed; comments by construction company worker Joseph Lew on how the children began to smuggle food and weapons into the ghettos; businessman Roman R. Kent on how any display of violence toward the German troops resulted in an immediate, brutal death; the liquidation of the ghetto; the way German troops were caught off-guard with organized attacks by Jews; comments by businesswoman Jonas Laks on the inhuman appearance of prisoners in the concentration camps; attorney Paul Hodys and housewife Esther Geizhals on the difficulty of staying with one's mother or father while in the concentration camps; housewife Selma Engel on how close the gas chambers and ovens were to the population of the camps; librarian Judith Zur on why so much information about every prisoner was recorded; the way troops would try and trick the hiding children with offers of food and clothing; the way camps were split up into groups of men, women, and children; and remarks by insurance executive Paul Goldstein on the difficulty of ever forgetting the horrors of the Holocaust. Commercials deleted.

Details

  • NETWORK: ABC
  • DATE: May 9, 1981 7:00 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 0:52:13
  • COLOR/B&W: Color
  • CATALOG ID: T81:0706
  • GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries; Talk/Interviews
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust survivors; Nazism; Prisoners of war (World War II); World War II - Jews; World War II - Concentration camps
  • SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1981
  • COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

  • Jack Eisner … Executive Producer
  • Yale Roe … Executive Producer, Writer
  • Joseph S. Kutrzeba … Producer, Director, Interviewer
  • Roman Kent … Associate Producer
  • Tomaso Albinoni … Theme Music by, Adagio by
  • Liv Ullmann … Narrator
  • Frieda Aaron
  • Samuel Bak
  • Jack P. Eisner
  • Selma Engel
  • Zvi H. Eyal
  • Jack Garfein
  • Esther Geizhals
  • Paul Goldstein
  • Paul Hodys
  • Breda Kalef
  • Roman R. Kent
  • Joseph S. Kutrzeba
  • Jonas Laks
  • Joseph Lew
  • Sam Pisar
  • Judith Zur