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| Director: | James Moll |
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| Writer: | |
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| Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to exterminate Hungarian Jews, months in concentration camps, and visiting childhood homes more than 50 years later. An historian, a Sonderkommando, a doctor who experimented on Auschwitz prisoners, and US soldiers who were part of the liberation in April 1945. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 23, 1998 |
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| Director: | James Moll |
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| Genres: | History, Documentary |
| Keywords | prisoner, world war ii, u.s. soldier, banana, childhood home, buchenwald, menorah |
| Production Companies | Ken Lipper/June Beallor Production, Shoah Foundation, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $421,432
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 10, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Bill Basch | Self |
| Martin Basch | Self |
| Randolph Braham | Self |
| Alice Lok Cahana | Self |
| Renee Firestone | Self |
| Irene Zisblatt | Self |
| Tom Lantos | Self |
| Michael Cahana | Self |
| Warren Dunn | Self |
| Bernard Firestone | Self |
| Dario Gabbai | Self |
| Katsugo Miho | Self |
| Hans Münch | Self |
| Paul Parks | Self |
| Robin Zisblatt | Self |
| Karl Bodenschatz | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Arno Breker | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Hans Frank | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Joseph Goebbels | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Hermann Göring | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Adolf Hitler | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Robert Ley | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Benito Mussolini | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Albert Speer | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Joachim von Ribbentrop | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| James Moll | Editor, Director |
| Hans Zimmer | Original Music Composer |
| Harris Done | Cinematography |
| Steve Cohen | Additional Camera |
| Gary Alexander | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Naum Boyarskiy | Production Sound Mixer |
| Tim Cooney | Production Sound Mixer |
| Francois Blaignan | Dialogue Editor |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Claude Letessier | Sound Designer |
| Aaron Levy | Sound Recordist |
| Myron Nettinga | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Steuart Pearce | Sound Mixer |
| John Reese | Sound Editor |
| Matthew Sawelson | Sound Supervisor |
| Matthias Schmitz | Production Sound Mixer |
| Dana Friedman | Visual Effects Producer |
| Arunas Baraznauskas | First Assistant Camera |
| Stefan Baur | First Assistant Camera |
| Miclós Bube | Second Assistant Camera |
| Tom Cherry | First Assistant Camera |
| Piotr Degtiarev | Second Assistant Camera |
| Yusef Edmonds | Second Assistant Camera |
| Emil Hampton | First Assistant Camera |
| Reginald Kamusella | Second Assistant Camera |
| Geza Pastor | First Assistant Camera |
| Raul Prado | Second Assistant Camera |
| Stephanie Barish | Title Designer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Steven Spielberg | Executive Producer |
| June Beallor | Producer |
| Ken Lipper | Producer |
| Elyse Katz | Associate Producer |
| Aaron Zarrow | Associate Producer |
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| Sundance Film Festival | Best Director | N/A | Nominated |
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Putting aside how significantly important it is for us to remember the past in order for us to have a better future; and how impressive to have the personal voices of Holocaust survivors - I love the way James Moll constructed a time slice of history by the splicing these memories of together. ...