Category:Holocaust Children, Movies (subject)

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Holocaust Children's Movies (see Holocaust Children Studies)

See Top 10 Holocaust Films

1940s

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

1950s

1960s

1980s

1990s

Documentaries

2000s

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)