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	A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell 30 minutes, black & white Source: Filmakers Library
	A Day in Warsaw 10 minutes Source: The National Center for Jewish Film Part of the video montage Jews of Poland, this short documentary captures the spirit of Jewish life in pre-World War II Warsaw. Narrated in Yiddish with English subtitles, it presents the viewer with important images of daily life in Jewish Warsaw as it was before the Nazi invasion.
	A Discussion with Elie Wiesel 30 minutes, color Source: Facing History and Ourselves Facing History and Ourselves students from Chicago area high schools share their thoughts and experiences as part of a panel discussion with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. There is a lesson created around this video, about Eve Shalen and the "in" group, on pages 29-31 of the Holocaust and Human Behavior resource book. View The "In" Group
	Daniel's Story 12 minutes, black & white and color Source: out of print Daniel's Story is a film documentary that employs a composite figure, Daniel, as its central narrative voice. Daniel and his family are a typical but fictitious German-Jewish family. Daniel's story, however, is very real, accurately portraying historical events (illustrated by archival footage) and representing many families who were victims of the Holocaust.
	Darfur Now 90 minutes, DVD Source: amazon.com
	Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust 57 minutes Source: Women Make Movies
	Days of Waiting 28 minutes, black & white and color Source: Center for Asian American Media Days of Waiting is a biographical documentary about Estelle Ishigo, a woman artist who was one of the few Caucasians to be interned with 110,000 Japanese Americans in 1942. During her internment, she recorded the deprivations and rigors of camp life with unusual insight, her sketches and watercolors forming a moving portrait of the internees as they struggled to keep their health and dignity alive.
	Deep Dark Secret 13 minutes Source: CBS Video This 60 Minutes segment on the history of eugenics in the United States focuses on the Fernald School, a Waltham, Mass. institution in which children labeled as "feeble-minded" were locked up by the state government. At its peak, approximately 2,500 people, many of them children who were simply poor or uneducated, were confined at the Fernald School. Several of them, now grown, are interviewed in this video.
	Degenerate Art 60 minutes Source: out of print The exhibition Degenerate Art opened at the art center of the Third Reich in Munich as a demonstration of Jewish-Democratic and Kultur-Bolshevistik influences in the art banned by the Nazis. The Nazis applied the term 'degenerate' to 'all art other than the most commonplace naturalism.' Hitler had denounced modern art as the product of "morbid and perverted minds," and pledged to rid Germany of these "aesthetic atrocities."
	Degenerate Art in the Third Reich 62 minutes Source: Facing History and Ourselves David Joselit examines the lives and works of artists who opposed the artistic dictates of National Socialism. This lecture is part of the Elements of Time series. Related lesson: Memory and Legacy: Building Monuments and Memorials

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