Category:Holocaust Children's Movies (subject)

Holocaust Children's Movies (see Holocaust Children Studies)

See Top 10 Holocaust Films

1940s

• The Pied Piper, directed by Irving Picher (USA, 1942)

An Englishman on vacation in France is caught up in the German invasion of that country, and finds himself taking an ever-growing group of children to safety.

• Our Children (Unzere Kinder), directed by Nathan Gross (Poland 1948) <Yiddish>

This semi-documentary film (and Poland’s last Yiddish feature) features the comedy duo Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher who had recently returned from the Soviet Union, and Jewish children who had survived the Holocaust. The children teach adults about the healing possibilities of music, dance and storytelling.

• Border Street (Ulica Graniczna), directed by Aleksander Ford (Poland 1948) <Polish>

The film depicts the Nazis' purge of Warsaw Jews [2] by following the fates of five families, representative of the various social, political, and ethnic strata in Warsaw, through the war, and culminates in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

• The Search, directed by Fred Zinnemann (USA 1948)

The film tells the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other across post-World War II Europe.

1950s

• The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by George Stevens (USA 1959)

1960s

• Nackt unter Wölfen, directed by Georg Leopold (East Germany 1960) -- See Stefan Jerzy Zweig (M / Poland, 1941), Holocaust survivor

• • The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Alex Segal (1967)
• The Two of Us (Le vieil homme et l'enfant), directed by Claude Berri (1967)

1980s

• The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Boris Sagal (USA 1980)
• Come and See (Иди и смотри), directed by Elem Klimov (URSS 1985)
• Au revoir les enfants, directed by Louis Malle (Francia 1987)
• [Il diario di Anna Frank, directed by Gareth Davies (UK 1987)
• Lena: My 100 Children, directed by Edwin Sherin (USA 1987)
• The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank, directed by Joh Erman (USA 1988)
• A Friendship in Vienna, directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman (USA 1988)

1990s

• Europa Europa, directed by Agnieszka Holland (Germany 1990)
• Alan & Naomi, directed by Sterling Van Wagenen (USA 1992)
• Jonah Who Lived in the Whale / Look to the Sky / (Jona che visse nella balena, directed by Roberto Faenza (Italy 1993)
• Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), directed by Roberto Benigni (Italy 1997)
• The Island on Bird Street (Øen i Fuglegaden), directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (Denmark 1997)
• A Call to Remember, directed by Jack Bender (USA 1997)
• All My Loved Ones (Vsichni moji blízcí), directed byMatej Minac (Rep. ceca 1997)

Documentaries

• Lost Childhood: The Story of the Birkenau Boys (1995)

2000s

• [La storia di Anna Frank, directed byRobert Dornhelm (UK 2001)
• Monsieur Batignole, directed by Gérard Jugnot (France 2002)
• Fateless (Sorstalanság), directed by Lajos Koltai (Hungary 2005)
• Fugitive Pieces, directed by Jeremy Podeswa (Canada 2007)
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, directed by Mark Herman (UK-USA 2008)

2010s

• Nicky's Family (Nickyho rodina), film, directed by Matej Mináč (Rep.ceca 2011)
• Wunderkinder, directed by Markus Rosenmüller (Germany 2011)
• La fuga degli innocenti, directed by Leone Pompucci (Italy 2012)
• Naked Among Wolves (Nackt unter Wölfen), directed by Philipp Kadelbach (Germany 2015)
• Fanny's Journey (Le voyage de Fanny), directed by Lola Doillon (France 2016)
• A Bag of Marbles (Un sac de billes), directed by Christian Duguay (France 2017)