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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges everyone to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism to help prevent future genocides. Here are some films and documentaries you can watch to honor the victims and never forget.

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  • Simon Schama

    the Holocaust, 80 Years on

    To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the final concentration camps, a historian travels around Europe covering history and revealing personal stories.
    DVD, 2025Arlington, VA : PBS, [2025] — DVD 940.5318 SIMON
  • From Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It reveals the true face of Eichmann
    Streaming Video, 2014Cohen Film Collection, 2014. — KANOPY STREAMING VIDEO
  • Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in "The New Yorker," controversial both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils, introduced her now-famous concept: the Banality of Evil.
    DVD, 2013New York, NY : Zeitgeist Video, c2013. — DVD H
  • Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling, if unsteady, American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
    Streaming Video, 1982Shout Factory, 1982. — KANOPY STREAMING VIDEO
  • Winner of seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" follows the true story of Oskar Schindler, who saved more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.
    DVD, 2013Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2013] — DVD S
  • The 2016 Oscar and Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Film: In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
    DVD, 2016Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2016] — DVD FOREIGN S HUNGARIAN
  • In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.
    DVD, 2011Santa Monica, CA : Lionsgate, 2011. — DVD FOREIGN L ITALIAN
  • In this fact-based drama, an American historian accused of libel by a notorious Holocaust denier must prove in court that the Holocaust did occur.
    DVD, 2017Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, [2017] — DVD D
  • Allied troops marching into Germany at the end of World War II found evidence of atrocities that tortured the world's conscience. As these troops entered Nazi concentration camps and faced the horrors, they made a filmed record of what they saw.
    Streaming Video, 1985PBS, 1985. — KANOPY STREAMING VIDEO
  • The invisibles

    we want to live = Die Unsichtbaren : wir wollen leben

    A docudrama that focuses on four young Jewish people who struggled to hide in plain site in Berlin during the early 1940s.
    DVD, 2019New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2019] — DVD FOREIGN I GERMAN
  • Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel in 1961, can't shake the horrors of the camps when he discovers that another is suffering the same misery.
    Streaming Video, 2008Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2008. — KANOPY STREAMING VIDEO
  • An Italian everyman goes with the flow and looks out only for himself until he finds himself a prisoner in a German concentration camp. Directed by Lina Wertmüller, "Seven Beauties" became the first time a woman was nominated for Best Director.
    Streaming Video, 1975Kino Lorber, 1975. — KANOPY STREAMING VIDEO
  • The true story of brilliant pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman — an acclaimed musician who survived WWII with the help of a German officer.
    DVD, 2006[Universal City, Calif.] : Focus Features : [Distributed by] Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2006] — DVD P