Classroom Edition Video (28 minutes) with Study Guide (Brooklyn, NY: Watch Tower Society, 1996)
Description : As the Nazi killing machine engulfed Europe with terror, thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses suffered brutal persecution. In this video, 10 historians from Europe and North America, and more than 20 Witness survivors, join in relating a story of courage and triumph that must be told.
Spanish and English versions available.
Video and study guide available from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Book Shop at www.ushmm.org and from Reed Presentations, Inc and upon request from Social Studies School Service at www.socialstudies.com.
Classroom Edition (28 minutes) and Scholar's Edition (78 minutes) DVD now available from Reed Presentations. Contact Beth at 800-774-1599 or email bethconnell@reedpresentations.com.
(See Additional Resources for online study guide at Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota.)
The True Story of A German Family. (UK: Starlock Pictures, 1991.)
Description : The story of the Kusserows, a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses living in Germany during World War ll. A true story of courage and endurance in the face of almost unbearable suffering. Video available from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Book Shop at www.ushmm.org and upon request from Social Studies School Service at www.socialstudies.com
Note: Jehovah’s Witnesses Stand Firm Against Nazi Assault and Purple Triangles: The True Story of a German Family are listed in United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Annotated Videography of videos for middle, high school, and college students at www.ushmm.org.
The Extraordinary Courage of an Ordinary Man. Bernhard Rammerstorfer. (New Orleans, LA: Grammaton Press, 2004. New Orleans.)
Description : Reveals the extraordinary depth of an ordinary man’s inner strength. Locked in a life and death struggle, Leopold Engleitner, now 101 years old, faces and triumphs over Nazi wrath. Educational DVD available at www.unbrokenwill.net and www.grammatonpress.com
(2006, San Francisco: Open Door Productions)
Description : Joseph Kempler, 76, survived six Nazi concentration camps as a Polish Jewish teenager. His admiration for Jehovah’s Witness prisoners in Nazi camps moved him to become a Witness after liberation. Joseph still finds it difficult to overcome the losses he suffered during the Holocaust as a teenager. Program will be shown nationwide on PBS on May 22, 2007, as part of the Independent Lens series. DVD and study guide available at www.knocking.org. (See Lesson Plans and Study Guides for online study guide.)
(Berlin: Drei Linden Media, 1997)
Description : Combines first-person descriptions of events with historical footage, photos and eye-witness accounts of the persecution and resistance of Jehovah’s Witnesses during the Nazi regime. Video available from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Book Shop at www.ushmm.org
This DVD is also available in Italian, Polish, French, Spanish
(Fritz Poppenberg, 1999)
Description : "Follow Me" recounts the unthinkable suffering men, women and children endured in the East German Communist state because of their Christian faith. But just as the Nazis failed in their attempt to eliminate the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Communists were unable to wipe out this religious society and, with it, the message of the Bible.
Available at www.dreilindenfilm.de
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