Powerful documentary shows where we're headed if we don't do something about what's happening in US

[diva77]

Treblinka's Last Witness

https://www.pbs.org/video/treblinkas-last-witness-4rbuxq/

I accidentally encountered this doc while channel surfing.

[BigmanPigman]

1. I don't know if you get TCM but tomorrow night

they are showing both The Sorrow and the Pity and the film Night and Fog.

Summary: "Night and Fog is a documentary that alternates between past and present, using both black-and-white and color footage. The first part of Night and Fog shows remnants of Auschwitz while the narrator Michel Bouquet describes the rise of Nazi ideology. The film continues with comparisons of the life of the Schutzstaffel to the starving prisoners in the camps. Bouquet then addresses the sadism inflicted upon the doomed inmates, including torture, scientific and medical "experiments", executions, and rape. The next section is shown completely in black-and-white, and depicts images of gas chambers and piles of bodies. The final topic of the film depicts the liberation of the country, the discovery of the horror of the camps, and the questioning of who was responsible for them."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_and_Fog_(1956_film)

[diva77]

2. Thanks for the info, BP - had not heard of these films

[BigmanPigman]

5. They were posted on DU a few days ago.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1030&pid=5906

I set my DVR. I already watched Kapok, Diary of Anne Frank and The Search before. All are good Holocaust films.

Every time I watch a film I learn more and cry more (of course). The Holocaust will not be forgotten and it won't be repeated as long as people don't forget. Films help keep the horror and the history alive.

[2naSalit]

3. Saw those in school...

from Jr high to college.

[jeffreyi]

4. Just watched it

Thanks for the recommendation. I am so happy he had a reasonably good life after that horror. Amazing they made it out.