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Flashcards by Andrea Pan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Andrea Pan
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| Question | Answer |
| THE BOOK THIEF (2013) | Liesel lives with her foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubermann in Nazi Germany. She finds solace from the horrors around her by stealing books from the mayor's house to learn new words. |
| THE PIANIST (2002) | During the WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive. |
| LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (1997) | A Jewish father and his family are surrounded by Nazi death camps. Living in a hostile environment, he uses humor to shield his young son from the grim realities of war. |
| SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993) | Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist and member of the Nazi party, tries to save his Jewish employees after witnessing the persecution of Jews in Poland. |
| EUROPA EUROPA (1990) | Jewish teenager Salek (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family when they flee their home in Germany after Kristallnacht. He ends up in a Russian orphanage for two years, but when Nazi troops reach Russia he convinces them he is a German Aryan, and becomes an invaluable interpreter and then an unwitting war hero. His deception becomes increasingly difficult to maintain after he joins the Hitler Youth and finds love with beautiful Leni (Julie Delpy), a fervent anti-Semite. |
| AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS (1987) | Julien, a student of a Catholic boarding school, dislikes his new room-mate Jean. However, they develop a bond and share secrets when Julien realises that Jean is a Jew and is hiding from the Nazis. |
| THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1959) | Anne, a young Jewish girl, is forced into hiding with her family and one other family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. She pens down her feelings and experiences as she hopes to be free once again. |
| DENIAL (2016) | In 1993 Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books published `Denying the Holocaust'. Two years later the English author David Irving sued her for libel on the grounds that her book had ruined his once well-regarded career as an historian by accusing him of deliberately distorting historical facts. The resulting court case puts the onus on her legal team to prove that the Holocaust did indeed take place. Based on a true story. |
| THE READER (2008) | Michael, a teenager, falls in love with an older woman named Hanna. Their liaison ends when she suddenly vanishes. They meet after a decade when she goes on trial for being a Nazi guard during WWII. |
| SON OF SAUL (2015) | During World War II, a Jewish worker (Géza Röhrig) at the Auschwitz concentration camp tries to find a rabbi to give a child a proper burial. |
| THE LADY IN NUMBER 6: MUSIC SAVED MY LIFE (2013) | Alice Herz Sommer, 109, is the world's oldest pianist and a Holocaust survivor; she shares her views on how to have a long and happy life. |
| IDA (2013) | When a young novice nun goes to meet her aunt, her aunt tells her that her parents were Jews and were killed in Poland during the Second World War. Her aunt also takes her to her parents' house. |
| CONSPIRACY (2001) | A body of officials belonging to the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler meet at the Wannsee Conference in 1942 to implement the last phase of the Holocaust. |
| THE COUNTERFEITERS (2007) | Salomon Sorowitsch lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi-era. He suddenly gets arrested and thrown into a concentration camp. Salomon exhibits exceptional skills there and is soon transferred to an upgraded camp. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon is forced to produce fake foreign currency. |
| ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR (1987) | German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943. |
| PHOENIX (2014) | Nina somehow survives the Nazi concentration camps but her face gets disfigured in the struggle. She sets off to trace her missing husband and find out whether he still loves her. |
| 1945 (2017) | In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a Russian-occupied Hungarian village must face the consequences of its ill-gotten gains from the war. |
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