Films About The Kleins

1996 Academy Award-winner
ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS
Gerda Weissmann Klein describes her Holocaust experiences in this moving work, the winner of the 1995 Academy Award for best documentary short subject. It is based on her memoir
All But My Life.

Videocassette, 36 minutes, 1995
Distributor: Direct Cinema Ltd, P.O. Box 10003, Santa Monica, CA 90410
800/ 525-0000

Remarks by Gerda Weissmann Klein acknowledging an Academy Award. Quicktime Version (13 Mb) Windows Media Version (19 Mb) (download Quicktime Player) (download Windows Media Player)

PBS' The American Experience:
AMERICA AND THE HOLOCAUST: Deceit and Indifference
Kurt Klein was unable to obtain the visas that would allow his parents to leave Germany for the United States. They eventually died at Auschwitz. This documentary describes his frustrated efforts on their behalf and raises questions about the U.S. response to the Nazi persecution of Jews. it explores the social and political concerns that led government officials to block refugees' efforts to enter the United States, and it challenges President Roosevelt's decision not to bomb Auschwitz.

Videocassette, 90 minutes, 1994
Distributor: PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314
800/ 328-7271

See Gerda Weissmann Klein talk about her experiences during the Holocaust
Click on the Video links below to view Real Media clips of her presentations.

Video Clip 1 (2 min 5 sec)
Describes the Bolkenhain subcamp of Gross-Rosen and a camp leader.

Video Clip 2 (2 min 50 sec)
Describes liberation in Czechoslovakia by U.S. soldiers.

Video Clip 3 (3 min 36 sec)
Kurt Klein describes a group of death march survivors found in a Czechoslovak village.

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