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| Director: | James Moll | 
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| Writer: | |
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| Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to exterminate Hungarian Jews, months in concentration camps, and visiting childhood homes more than 50 years later. An historian, a Sonderkommando, a doctor who experimented on Auschwitz prisoners, and US soldiers who were part of the liberation in April 1945. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 23, 1998 | 
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| Director: | James Moll | 
| Writer: | |
| Genres: | History, Documentary | 
| Keywords | prisoner, world war ii, u.s. soldier, banana, childhood home, buchenwald, menorah | 
| Production Companies | Ken Lipper/June Beallor Production, Shoah Foundation, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation | 
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                Revenue: $421,432
                Budget: $0  | 
      
| Updates | 
          Updated: Aug 10, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024  | 
      
| Name | Character | 
|---|---|
| Bill Basch | Self | 
| Martin Basch | Self | 
| Randolph Braham | Self | 
| Alice Lok Cahana | Self | 
| Renee Firestone | Self | 
| Irene Zisblatt | Self | 
| Tom Lantos | Self | 
| Michael Cahana | Self | 
| Warren Dunn | Self | 
| Bernard Firestone | Self | 
| Dario Gabbai | Self | 
| Katsugo Miho | Self | 
| Hans Münch | Self | 
| Paul Parks | Self | 
| Robin Zisblatt | Self | 
| Karl Bodenschatz | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 
| Arno Breker | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 
| Hans Frank | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 
| Joseph Goebbels | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 
| Hermann Göring | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 
| Adolf Hitler | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 
| Robert Ley | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 
| Benito Mussolini | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 
| Albert Speer | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 
| Joachim von Ribbentrop | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 
| Name | Job | 
|---|---|
| James Moll | Director, Editor | 
| Hans Zimmer | Original Music Composer | 
| Harris Done | Cinematography | 
| Steve Cohen | Additional Camera | 
| Gary Alexander | Sound Re-Recording Mixer | 
| Naum Boyarskiy | Production Sound Mixer | 
| Tim Cooney | Production Sound Mixer | 
| Francois Blaignan | Dialogue Editor | 
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Sound Re-Recording Mixer | 
| Claude Letessier | Sound Designer | 
| Aaron Levy | Sound Recordist | 
| Myron Nettinga | Sound Re-Recording Mixer | 
| Steuart Pearce | Sound Mixer | 
| John Reese | Sound Editor | 
| Matthew Sawelson | Sound Supervisor | 
| Matthias Schmitz | Production Sound Mixer | 
| Dana Friedman | Visual Effects Producer | 
| Arunas Baraznauskas | First Assistant Camera | 
| Stefan Baur | First Assistant Camera | 
| Miclós Bube | Second Assistant Camera | 
| Tom Cherry | First Assistant Camera | 
| Piotr Degtiarev | Second Assistant Camera | 
| Yusef Edmonds | Second Assistant Camera | 
| Emil Hampton | First Assistant Camera | 
| Reginald Kamusella | Second Assistant Camera | 
| Geza Pastor | First Assistant Camera | 
| Raul Prado | Second Assistant Camera | 
| Stephanie Barish | Title Designer | 
| Name | Title | 
|---|---|
| Steven Spielberg | Executive Producer | 
| June Beallor | Producer | 
| Ken Lipper | Producer | 
| Elyse Katz | Associate Producer | 
| Aaron Zarrow | Associate Producer | 
| Organization | Category | Person | |
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| Sundance Film Festival | Best Director | N/A | Nominated | 
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Putting aside how significantly important it is for us to remember the past in order for us to have a better future; and how impressive to have the personal voices of Holocaust survivors - I love the way James Moll constructed a time slice of history by the splicing these memories of together. ...