The Last Days won the 1998 Academy Award® for Best Feature Documentary. It was subsequently translated into 30 languages and released in 30 countries.

Hungary was the last country invaded by German forces in World War II; within months, the Nazis had deported more than 435,000 Hungarian Jews. The Academy Award®-winning The Last Days gives the personal accounts of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors, along with those of liberators, historians, and other eyewitnesses, to provide insight into the events of 1944 in Hungary and to address the themes of family, morality, forgiveness, tolerance, and rebuilding a life after the war.

Executive-produced by Academy Award®-winner Steven Spielberg. Directed by Academy Award®-winner James Moll. Produced by Academy Award®-winners June Beallor and Ken Lipper.

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The Lost Children of Berlin won the 1998 Edward R. Murrow Award for News Documentary.

This documentary film chronicles the lives of former students who attended Grosse Hamburgerstrasse School in Berlin during the Holocaust. The school was closed in 1942 by the Gestapo. Interviewed during a 1996 reunion following the reopening of the school after 54 years, the survivors recount their experiences against the backdrop of present-day Berlin.

Executive-produced by Academy Award®-winners Steven Spielberg, June Beallor, and James Moll; For Fogwood Films: Academy Award®-winner Sally Field and Wendy Japhet. Directed by Elizabeth McIntyre. Produced by Adrian Milne.

Nazvy svoie im’ia (Spell Your Name) Accomplished Ukrainian film director Sergey Bukovsky crafted the film using Ukrainian and Russian-language testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s archive and new footage shot on location in Ukraine. Bukovsky takes the viewer on a journey of discovery as he and several Ukrainian students absorb the testimony of local people who escaped brutal execution and those who rescued friends and neighbors during the Holocaust.

Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg and Victor Pinchuk. Directed by Sergey Bukovsky. Produced by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute: Douglas Greenberg, Executive Director; Kim Simon, Executive in Charge of Production; Mark Edwards, Producer. Associate Produced by Victoria Bondar.

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Voices from the List was released exclusively on DVD to accompany the 2004 debut release of Schindler’s List on DVD. Based exclusively on the testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s archive of some of the men and women who were saved by Oskar Schindler, Voices from the List continues beyond the narrative of the Academy Award®-winning film Schindler’s List, highlighting the first-person testimony of survivors along with rare, archival footage.

Executive-produced by Academy Award®-winner Steven Spielberg, Academy Award®-winner June Beallor, and Douglas Greenberg. Directed by Michael Mayhew. Produced by Academy Award®-winner James Moll in association with Allentown Productions, Inc.

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Volevo solo vivere (I Only Wanted to Live) Directed by Mimmo Calopresti, this film follows the testimony of nine Italian citizens who survive deportation and internment in the Auschwitz death camps—intimate stories explore the profound implications of this harrowing experience.

Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg. Directed by Mimmo Calopresti. Produced by Gagè Produzioni and Wildside Media in co-production with Rai Cinema, ventura film and RTSI-Televisione Svizzera. Associate produced by Francesca Alatri. Douglas Greenberg, Executive Director; Kim Simon, Executive in Charge of Production; Mark Edwards, Producer. In collaboration with Comune di Roma and Ambassador Mel Sembler.

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The following 5 films are part of Broken Silence, an international, foreign-language documentary series consisting of five one-hour films representing the Holocaust as experienced by survivors now living in Argentina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Russia.

Eyes of the Holocaust (2001)

Director Janos Szasz, the son of Holocaust survivors, made this Hungarian-language documentary that focuses on the experiences of survivors who were children during the Holocaust.

Some Who Lived (2001)

From Academy Award®-winning Director Luis Puenzo, this Spanish-language film weaves together testimonies from Holocaust survivors and explores the connections between Nazism and the darker chapters in Argentine history.

Children from the Abyss (2001)

Directed by Academy Award® Nominee Pavel Chukhraj: Holocaust survivors in this Russian-language documentary detail their experience of resistance, betrayal, rescue, and the desire for revenge.

I Remember (2001)

Directed by Academy Award® Honoree, Andrzej Wajda, this Polish-language documentary chronicles the experience of four survivors who were either helped or betrayed by their Polish neighbors.

Hell on Earth (2001)

Directed by renowned Czech filmmaker Vojtech Jasny, this Czech-language documentary probes beneath the charade of Theresienstadt, the “model” Czech ghetto set up by the Nazis to deceive the world about how well the Jews were treated.

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