Shoah Memorial (in english)

On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. While the swastika now flew over Paris, the City of Light was undamaged, and soon a peculiar kind of normalcy returned as theaters, opera houses, movie theaters, and nightclubs reopened for business. Shedding light on this critical moment of twentieth-century European cultural history, And the Show Went On focuses anew on whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership in moments of national trauma.

For a documentary film developed from Russian camera equipment during the 1940s, the results are incredible - and superb. It is correct this documentation was used as prosecution evidence at the Nuremburg War Crime Trials. I have several documentary DVDS about International War Crimes (IWC) Trials held in Nuremberg, and portions of the documentation films in this DVD have appeared in those. The introduction by Simon Wiesenthal is very informative as well as the statements by Captain Alexander Vorontsov the only surviving cameraman from the Soviet film crew attached to the 1st Ukrainian front, and, in Jan/Feb 1945, filmed the liberation of the death camp Auschwitz. The descriptions by Captain Vorontsov about himself and his comrades who saw the horrid scenes encountered by the liberators facilitated better comprehension re. the contents of the film in this DVD. The Captain documented how the majority of prisoners were forced to leave Auschwitz by the German SS as the Russian Army approached which resulted in the infamous Death Marches. The Captain recorded the horrid truths about children used in medical experiments, torture and death - including the remains of those who died. The Russians presented an tragic but accurate record for the plight of the remaining 6,000 prisoners and the closing of Auschwitz, on February 28, 1945. I will never forget the film's contents that showed destroyed buildings to cover up the genocide, but piles of human ashes - as high as 6 feet - left on the grounds as well as the whole complex as revealed in photos of the grounds from allied aircraft. This DVD is a sine qua nonne to have a full grasp of what happened there.

The fate of two families during the Second World War: Weiss, a German Jewish family whose members try to escape Nazi barbarism and the Dorf, who choose to adhere to Hitler's ideology. An unforgettable dive in the heart of history.