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WWII: Witnessing the Holocaust | Personal accounts of persecution and genocide by the Nazi regime
About this collection
These programmes and documents chart the reactions and personal testimonies of some of those who witnessed the Nazis' "Final Solution".
Interviews, journals and documentaries starkly convey the realities of the camps. Survivors recount their experiences of the genocide and its continuing legacy.
This collection also illustrates the shock felt by the liberators and how the atrocities were revealed by UK broadcasters.
Features
- Woman's Hour: Primo Levi
- Grandchild of the Holocaust
Grandchild of the Holocaust
- Patrick Gordon Walker's Belsen Report
Patrick Gordon Walker's Belsen Report
- Richard Dimbleby Describes Belsen
Richard Dimbleby Describes Belsen
WWII: Witnessing the Holocaust Collection
- Programmes (17)
- Documents (9)
Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Seven days after its liberation, the horrors of Buchenwald are made known.
Gestapo in Holland
A Canadian reporter provides a first hand account of a concentration camp near Zutphen.
Richard Dimbleby Describes Belsen
The broadcaster recounts the horrors of Belsen.
Patrick Gordon Walker
Belsen Facts and Thoughts
The survivors and the soldiers who relieved Belsen bear witness to the horrors of the camp.
Captive Children
A Red Cross appeal seeking relatives of children liberated from concentration and labour camps.
Harold Osmond le Druillenec
The only Briton found alive in Belsen describes his experiences there.
Forgotten Allies
Popek
A Polish commercial artist describes his experiences in a German concentration camp.
Tonight
Pieter Menten's War
'Tonight' on the trail of Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten.
The Gathering
Harrowing memories of the concentration camps recounted by survivors.
The Mysterious Stranger
The story of the man who warned the Allies about the Final Solution.
Woman's Hour
Primo Levi
One of Auschwitz's most famous survivors talks to Sue MacGregor.
Portrait
Simon Wiesenthal
Broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy meets Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
Today
Holocaust Documents Released
Documents reveal that Britain knew something of the Nazi slaughter of the Jews as early as 1941.
Personal Touch
Helen Bamber
Helen Bamber shares her memories of the liberation of Belsen.
Personal Touch
Marianne Grant
Artist Marianne Grant tells of how she was forced to paint for Dr Josef Mengele in Auschwitz.
Grandchild of the Holocaust
A Holocaust survivor and her grandson return to the scene to unlock her story.
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