Product Details

• Actors: Simon Wiesenthal, Dr. Wolfgang Scheffler
• Directors: Irmgard von zur Mhlen
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Arts Magic
• DVD Release Date: October 25, 2005
• Run Time: 53 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000B9E2D6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,499 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Between 1941 and 1945, the little fortress town of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia was the transit point for the death camps in the east for thousands of European Jews. The Jewish people deported there from 1941 onwards were lead to believe it was an ‘End Camp’ from where they would not be deported further. They were promised a comfortable and peaceful life in the ‘Reich Home for the Aged’. In reality, the Jews were hoodwinked into signing over their properties and assets to the S.S. before being sent east to the death camps.

From 1943, Theresienstadt was developed into a ‘show camp’ with which the Nazis could deceive the world as to what was really happening to the Jews of Europe. The camp was given a pleasant outer façade so convincing, that in June 1941, a Danish and International Red Cross delegation allowed itself to be completely deceived by it when they inspected this fraudulent ‘Jewish settlement’.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Compelling portrayal of Theresienstadt, March 7, 2010

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Z Hayes (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holocaust: Theresienstadt (DVD)

Theresienstadt was not an extermination camp, but that does not mean the inmates in this camp had it easy. Starvation was rampant, as was disease, and the Nazis used Terezin (as it was also known) as a "model" camp, deceiving people into believing that the Jews were not so badly treated after all, the worst deception being perpetrated in front of the Red Cross when they visited the camp during the war. Many of the inmates were eventually selected for deportation to the death camps, including women and children. The most interesting aspect of this film (for me) was the rare archival film footage of the camp and its inmates. There is also footage of German propaganda films of the period. Included is compelling testimony by survivors of the camp. Recommended.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tiem line Error, October 25, 2009

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This review is from: Holocaust: Theresienstadt (DVD)

Have not read the book, but in the brief review the date 1941 was given for the Red Cross visit. The actual date was June 1944. In 1941 the camp was just being converted to a concentration camp and there were pratically no prisoners at that time so naturally the Red Cross would not find any intolerable conditions as existed in fact in 1944. These facts are irrefutable. I know because I am a survivor of Theresienstad.

14 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent but very emotional, May 25, 2007

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Paul A. Smit (Bedfordview, Gauteng South Africa) - See all my reviews
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Enjoyed learning but found it to be very emotional. Having bee on tour of the Concentration camps in Poland Two years ago revived memories of disguist at Nazi Germany and the lack of interest the rest of the world showd during this muderous period