Movie’s on the Holocaust

• Why do you think these 5 are more popular then the rest of the holocaust movies?

• Why do you think movies like these are better then documentaries?

Sophie’s choice

• Made in 1982

• Not based on a true story

• Made approx. 20,000,000

Characters

• Sophie: main character

• Stingo: from his perspective

• Nathan: Sophie’s boyfriend

Lebsonborn program

• Started in 1935 by Heinrich Himmler

• was a breeding program

• Estimated around 1,000 polish children involved

• The organization "Lebensborn e.V." serves the SS leaders in the selection and adoption of qualified children. The organisation "Lebensborn e.V." is under my personal direction, is part of the race and settlement central bureau of the SS, and has the following obligations:

• 1. Support racially, biologically, and hereditarily valuable families with many children.

• 2. Place and care for racially and biologically and hereditarily valuable pregnant women, who, after thorough examination of their and the progenitor's families by the race and settlement central bureau of the SS, can be expected to produce equally valuable children.

• 3. Care for the children.• 4. Care for the children's mothers.

On of the singers of Abba

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s

• Sold over 370million records

Main scenes

• Flash back Sophie had when she was in Auschwitz's

• First break up between Sophie and nathan

• Ending suicide scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Dxx3_iF14

Life is Beautiful

• Made in 1997

• Made 230million approx.

• Not based on a true story

• Shows the nation wide boycott on Jewish stores

• SA stopped lawyers from getting• To court cases for Jews

Concentration camps

• Depictured the harsh environments of the concentration camps

• People dropped dead and no one seemed to care

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhIdgiZcS-k

Defiance

• Made in 2008

• Based on a true story

• Made approx. 25,500,000

The Bieski brothers

• Tuvia was the leader of the Bieski partisans group

• Brothers were Tuvia, Zus, Asael,and Aron • The camp was located in the Naliboki forest

• the Bieski brothers saved around 1,200 Jews

• By the end of the war they had a hospital, school, and nursery

Defiance

• Q. Did the Bielski’s really sneak into the heavily guarded Jewish ghettos to rescue people?

• A. yes

• Q. In the film, Tuvia kills a policeman responsible for his parents’ arrest, but is emotionally conflicted about it. True?

• A. It is true he killed the policemen.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlMe-vWC5nk

Schindler’s list

• Made in 1993

• Based on a true story

• Made around $321,000,000

Oskar Schindler

• had around 1,100 Jews to work in his factory

• Housed them at the factory

• spent around 4 million German marks on saving the Jews

The movie itself

• Displays the actions that the Nazis took

• Showed how bad the concentration camps were

• Q. How many times did Oskar Schindler get arrested?

• A. He got arrested 3 times.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHSdWUWB07c