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The Holocaust on Trial, Very Good Books $12.48 |
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Schindler’s List: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack $4.43 Because he’s long been stereotyped by the rousing neo-romantic adventure scores for the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Jurassic Park franchises, it’s easy to forget that composer John Williams is hardly idiomatically challenged. When Steven Spielberg gratifyingly used the clout of his enormous commercial success to produce and direct this brave Holocaust drama, his longtime musical collaborator use… |
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Jewish Cello Masterpieces $9.50 A beautiful collection of great Jewish Music. Classics by Ernest Bloch and Max Bruch, mixed with rarely heard gems by Maurice Ravel, Zavel Zilberts, Jacob Wasilkovsky, and David Meyerowitz. “Wie Shlecht es is Ohn Gelt”, a Yiddish Theatre gem, is alone worth the price of admission for its mixture of pathos and humor. The songs by Zilberts are an important and beautiful part of the Jewish music lega… |
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Verdict on Auschwitz $13.58 Revisiting the two-year trial held in Frankfurt, Germany, during which officers of Hitler’s SS were tried for their complicity in the Holocaust, this bracing documentary combines contemporary location footage with audio recordings of the emotional proceedings. Revealing the soldiers’ calculating denials and the powerful testimony from hundreds of Auschwitz survivors, the film provides a harrowing … |
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The Nazis- The Acclaimed BBC Documentary [VHS] $40.00 What higher praise could one lavish on a 300-minute documentary series about an all-too-familiar subject other than that the production makes old news seem quite new again? Rarely has an ambitious documentary project gone to such lengths to reintroduce a notorious chapter in world history as did The Nazis: Warning from History, a BBC series originally brought to American audiences by the Hist… |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Skynet Edition) [Blu-ray] $5.00 Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as The Terminator in this explosive action-adventure spectacle. Now he’s one of the good guys, sent back in time to protect John Connor, the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. Linda Hamilton reprises her role as Sarah Connor, John’s mother, a quintessential survivor who has been institutionalized for her warning of the nuclear holocaust she know… |
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Schindler’s List (Widescreen Edition) $6.98 Seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Screenplay and Director, went to Steven Spielberg’s compelling, harrowing real-life Holocaust drama. Liam Neeson portrays Oskar Schindler, a businessman in Germany who uses his connections to staff his factory in occupied Poland with Jewish refugees, at first as unpaid slave labor, but later in an attempt to save them from extermination. Ben Kingsley, … |
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Life Is Beautiful $6.08 Italy’s rubber-faced funnyman Roberto Benigni accomplishes the impossible in his World War II comedy Life Is Beautiful: he shapes a simultaneously hilarious and haunting comedy out of the tragedy of the Holocaust. An international sensation and the most successful foreign language film in U.S. history, the picture also earned director-cowriter-star Benigni Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film a… |
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The Book Thief $7.10 Summary:It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by … |
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Man’s Search for Meaning $6.28 Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl’s imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called “Logotherapy in a Nutshe… |
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Night (Oprah’s Book Club) $3.00 In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no… |
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