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The Last Days: Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

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Six eye-witness accounts of the destruction of Hungarian Jewry by the Nazis are at the heart of this work. This and the witnesses return fifty years later to the place of the destruction and their reflection upon this.
Their testimony is part of the sacred act of remembrance of the destruction, and of those destroyed. It is of course a very partial act and can never compensate for the destruction.
With the murder of over four- hundred and fifty thousand Jews were murdered thousands of families, whole worlds.
The mind and heart cannot encompass or understand this.

This was on TV one night when I got home from a late shift. I was going to watch a few minutes of TV and go to bed, but this documentary is mesmerizing. To see these Survivors go back to see the Concentration Camps, and their former homes, which their neighbors took over after seeing them drug from their homes, makes you realize how recent the Holocaust was and how shocking it will always be. Amazing movie. The part where the lady (who now teaches American children about the Holocaust) goes back to her house the first time, and suddenly deteriorates in front of our eyes back to her childhood, remembering her family being drug from the house, and she starts trying to open the gate to her home...there are no words.

This is the story of the final days of the Holocaust when the Final Solution was inflicted upon the Jews of Hungary with devestating fury by the nazis and their local collaborators The Arrow Cross.

This is not a happy book but an insightful one that covers this portion of the bloody social engineering of Hitler's Final Solution, his attrocity against Jews.

exellent visual and historical document please advise publishers of the following p201 liberation photo, it is J Krammer with british gaurds at belsen not Fritz Klein revisionist would love that let us never forget.