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The National Trudeau delivers official apology for Canada's role in the MS St. Louis
The Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler tested the limits of Canada's humanity in the lead up to the Second World War and Canada's government failed that test "miserably," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Trudeau made an apology in the House of Commons for the 1939 decision by the Canadian government to turn away a boatload of German Jews seeking refuge ...
- 2018
- 00:06:17
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/03/2019
CBC Books Canada Reads 2019: Max Eisen on By Chance Alone
In this video Max Eisen discusses his deeply moving memoir By Chance Alone. When Eisen was 15 years old he and his family were taken from their home to Auschwitz, where he worked as a slave labourer. He survived the Holocaust and emigrated to Canada in 1949. Eisen has toured the world, educating people about the horrors he survived during the ...
- 2019
- 00:04:32
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/27/2019
News in Review - November 2018 Carl Lutz: The Swiss Schindler
During the Second World War, Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist and Nazi officer, was credited with saving 1,200 Jews. His story was told by director Steven Spielberg in the award-winning movie Schindler's List. Yet to this day, few know the name of Carl Lutz. Tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews owe their lives to this modest Swiss diplomat, among them two ...
- 2018
- 00:10:26
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/29/2018
News in Review - March 2015 Auschwitz Liberation: 70 Years Later
In the face of growing anti-Semitism worldwide, "let not the past be our children's future" was the unified call as Jews and non-Jews, survivors and their families gathered in Poland in January to pay respect to those who lost their lives in the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 2015
- 00:17:15
- 13-14
- Added on: 03/17/2015
The National D-Day 70: Holocaust Survivor Reunites with Rescuer
To mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day, The National follows a Montreal man to Poland for an emotional reunion. Holocaust survivor Sidney Zoltak reconnects with the Polish man who, as a teenage boy, saved 11-year-old Zoltak and his family from the Nazis.
- 2014
- 00:15:02
- 13-14
- Added on: 08/18/2014
Ideas Massey Lectures 2013: Power and Spectacle (Part 4 of 5)
Part four in the five-part Massey Lectures series from 2013, Blood: The Stuff of Life. Celebrated author Lawrence Hill explores the scientific and social history of blood, and the ways that it unites and divides us today. Violence and power need blood. When we want to hurt people or entertain ourselves at their expense, we lust for blood. How blood enters ...
- 2013
- 00:53:58
- 15-17
- Added on: 02/03/2014
Doc Zone Darfur, On Our Watch
Darfur. The world stands by as the first genocide of the 21st century unfolds. Now, one of the largest citizen movements in decades is trying to make a difference. Celebrities are stepping into the void left by the world’s leaders. Darfur, On Our Watch is a story of why helpless, hapless institutions cannot stop the unfathomable cruelty. It’s also an inspirational ...
- 2007
- 00:56:24
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The National Hana's Suitcase
The story of Hana's suitcase, made into an award-winning radio documentary and children's book, tells the harrowing true tale of the owner of the suitcase, Hana Brady, who died at Auschwitz in 1944 at age 13. In 2000, the Tokyo Holocaust Education and Resource Center acquired the suitcase, but no information about Hana came with it. Its director, Fumiko Ishioka, ...
- 2003
- 00:26:04
- 9-12
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Doc Zone Love, Hate and Propaganda: Selling War (Part 2 of 6)
When Adolf Hitler begins his campaign of conquest in 1939, most Germans actually don't want war. But Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels use every tool of propaganda to change their minds. German pride is invoked to justify the invasion of Poland and France — among other countries. Dark messages of hatred are used to persuade Germans that minorities ...
- 2010
- 00:42:55
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Doc Zone Love, Hate and Propaganda: Changing the Story (Part 6 of 6)
By 1945, propaganda machines that had geared populations for war now have to prepare them for peace. With the end of the war and the beginning of the Cold War, enemies would become partners, and allies now foes. The Allies chase the Nazis out of France and close in from all sides on Berlin. The "free French" retake their beloved ...
- 2010
- 00:43:47
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Doc Zone Love, Hate and Propaganda: Hiding the Horrors (Part 5 of 6)
With the D-Day invasion in June 1944, the Allies finally establish a beachhead in France and begin to roll back the Nazi forces. In order not to dampen morale, the Allied High Command hides the true human cost of taking Normandy, both for the allied soldiers and for the unfortunate citizens of Northern France who will suffer enormous casualties as ...
- 2010
- 00:42:07
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Doc Zone Love, Hate and Propaganda: Truth and Total War (Part 4 of 6)
Germany and Japan have mastery of the seas and control of the major theatres of war. But by 1943, the tide is changing and both countries will have to change their messaging accordingly to reflect a new emerging reality. Truth and Total War explores how "total war" proves to be a major turning point for all combatants and how the ...
- 2010
- 00:42:25
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The Fifth Estate Kurds: The Forgotten People
This program traces U.S. involvement in the plight of the Kurds in Iraq. Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world that don’t have their own country. The government of Saddam Hussein tried to exterminate Kurd settlements in northern Iraq in the late 1980s with deadly showers of cyanide and mustard gases. That’s when American officials grew concerned about ...
- 2002
- 00:26:04
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
News in Review - November 2006 Trying to Stop the Killing in Darfur
In October 2006 diplomatic efforts were stepped up to try to end the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan. A brutal civil war in the southern part of that country has killed as many as 200,000 people. More than two million others have been forced to flee their homes. This News in Review story will look at the terrible ...
- 2006
- 00:14:18
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/15/2006
News in Review - March 2005 Auschwitz: Remembering The Horror
On January 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in southwestern Poland. More than one million people were murdered at the camp, most of them Jews. This year some of the survivors returned to Auschwitz and joined world leaders at a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation. In this News in Review story ...
- 2005
- 00:10:26
- 13-14
- Added on: 03/15/2005
News in Review - September 1994 Rwanda: The Crisis and the Challenge
Against the backdrop of the calamity that is Rwanda, this report focuses on international aid and relief efforts, and the extent to which nations and individuals can respond to such crises.
- 1994
- 00:09:57
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/15/1994
