Films at the Library

An Appeal to the Jews of the World (1941).
" This Soviet newsreel ...shows the participants in a radio broadcast in which leading Russian Jewish intellectuals and artists spoke to Jews, exhorting them to support the Soviet Union in its fight against fascism. This meeting of Jewish leaders and the broadcast led to the formation of the Jewish Antifascist Committee in 1942."
DVD 7838
The Eternal Jew = Der Ewige Jude (1940).
Recorded by German cameramen in the Lodz ghetto in 1938.
DVD 5585
The Great Dictator (1940).
Political satire of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis produced by Charlie Chaplin.
DVD 5150
Hitler Youth = Hitlerjunge Quex (1933).
"In this classic propaganda film, Quex, a German youth, faces a conflict of ideals between his Communist father and his growing allegience to the Hitler Youth movement which eventually leads to his own death."
DVD 2232
Jud Süss (1940).
DVD 2300
Theresienstadt, or Führer Gives a City to the Jews = Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt.
In 1944, the Nazis produced a film about Terezin as a model ghetto with the aim to deceive the world about the plight of the Jews in Nazi occupied lands.
DVD 7554
The Wandering Jew = Der vandernder Yid (1933).
"Set in Berlin in 1933, the film tells of the problems facing Germany's Jews after Hitler's rise to power through the story of a Jewish artist and professor, Arthur Levi...."
DVD 3729