Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (which Spielberg co-founded to gather and archive testimonials from Holocaust survivors), Broken Silence compiles five one-hour films by five world-class filmmakers to offer up what is quite possibly the most valuable single resource for audio-visual study of the Nazi "final solution" that led to the extermination of six million Jews during Hitler's reign in World War II. Each film explores the Holocaust from a different personal, historical, and geographical perspective: Some Who Lived (Holocaust survivors in Argentina and Uruguay), Hell on Earth (the ghetto detention and deportation of Czech Jews), Eyes of the Holocaust (eyewitness testimonies from Hungarian survivors who were children during the Holocaust), I Remember (Polish survivors who were either aided or betrayed by their neighbors), and Children From the Abyss (survivors of mass executions in Russia and Eastern Europe). Extensive (and occasionally redundant) archival footage serves to support and validate the latter-day testimonials, which are the heart and soul of this remarkable single-disc anthology. Highly recommended. Editor's Choice. Aud: H, C, P. (J. Shannon)
Broken Silence
(2004) 283 min. DVD: $29.98. Universal Studios Home Video (avail. from most distributors). Color cover. Volume 19, Issue 4
Broken Silence
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