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holocaust documentaries

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MISHA AND THE WOLVES – Review by Liz Braun

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A Belgian immigrant named Misha Defonseca told a particularly harrowing story about her childhood experiences during World War II. Separated from her beloved parents, Fonseca determined at age 7 to run away from her adoptive family and walk to Germany to find her transported mother and father. She lived out the war in the woods, moving constantly, foraging for food and living adjacent to a wolf pack that protected her. Or did she? Misha and The Wolves is a masterpiece of misdirection and yarn-spinning

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WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY – Review by Martha K. Baker

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The backstory is this: In November 1940, Nazis stuffed 450,000 Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. To tell their stories, a clandestine band of journalists and scholars, led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, rebelled against the Nazi propaganda declaring Jews as hairy, dirty, and undesirable scum. Ringelblum asked, “Will Germans write our history or will we?” To off-set the lies, Ringelblum and his cohorts collected eye-witness accounts from the Jewish perspective and, in the end, provided documents for persecution of the persecutors.

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