Children of the Holocaust

Name: Children of the Holocaust
Released: 2015-08-12T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Educational

Six remarkable stories of survival from eyewitnesses of Nazi atrocities during World War 2, brought to life for a young audience through animation and a series of follow-on interviews to camera. Stage 5 History, English and Geography.

2015 · 8m

EPISODE 1

Ruth Rogoff

A five-year-old girl's escape over the mountains from East Germany into Czechoslovakia, and her mother's determined efforts to keep the family together.
EPISODE 2

Martin Kapel

An eight-year-old boy is expelled from Germany to Poland in the middle of the night in the so-called Polkenation. He escapes to England on the Kindertransport, only to experience the worst of the Blitz in Coventry.
EPISODE 3

Trude Silman

A young jewish girl who witnesses the Nazi Occupation of Bratislava Czechoslovakia, escapes to Britain on the Kindertransport, her struggle to settle living in Britain and her ongoing search for information about her parents.
EPISODE 4

Heinz Skyte

A thirteen-year-old boy sees the rise of the Nazis near Nuremberg and feels the effects of anti-jewish legislation on his education and social life.
EPISODE 5

Arek Hersh

A fourteen-year-old boy survives Auschwitz-Birkenau. He describes the choices he made which enabled him to survive, the cramped & squalid living conditions, the cruelty of the guards & constant battle against hunger & disease
EPISODE 6

Suzanne Rappaport-Ripton

A six-year-old girl is violently separated from her parents during Nazi occupied Paris, and how she was kept in hiding throughout the war working in an isolated rural farm.