Ergo Media Releases Holocaust Video Packages Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, Ergo Media has prepared special educational video packages to help educators and interested individuals learn more about the Holocaust.
(PRWEB) January 26, 2005 -- On January 27th, at the international memorial at
Birkenau, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney will join Israeli President Moshe
Katzav, French President Jacques Chirac, Russian President Vladimir Putin and
many other presidents and prime ministers at ceremonies marking the anniversary
of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. The Polish Ministry of
Culture, Israel's Yad Vashem and the European Jewish Congress, will be
co-hosting a forum entitled “Let My People Live” that same morning. It is now
sixty years since the liberation of the camp.
In commemoration of this
most solemn event, Ergo Media is offering two special video packages culled from
our extensive award-winning Holocaust video offerings by filmmakers from around
the world. One package features titles on the 'Auschwitz Experience' while the
other focuses on children and the Holocaust. All videos are in English.
Information on each package can be found at www.Holocaustvideo.com/auschwitz60.htm
“The Auschwitz
Experience” package includes David Bergman’s “The Rails to Auschwitz and Back,”
Swedish filmmaker Gregor Nowinski’s “Sorrow: The Nazi Legacy,” British filmmaker
Andrew Barron’s “Auschwitz: The Final Witness,” Allen Secher and Ted Kay’s
“Choosing One’s Way: Resistance in Auschwitz- Birkenau.”
The second
package focuses on children and the Holocaust, as well as videos geared toward
teaching the Holocaust to children. Videos included are Lisa Wood-Shapiro’s
“Another Story,” Ray Errol Fox’s “Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future,”
Israeli filmmaker Hilary Gatoff’s “Kinder-Exodus 1937, Canadian educator Batia
Bettman’s “Let Memory Speak,” and Polish filmmaker Janusz Morgenstern’s
“Ambulance.”
Ergo Media, at www.Holocaustvideo.com,
is a New Jersey-based video publisher specializing in Jewish-oriented video. The
company sells over 60 video titles dealing with a variety of events and issues
related to the Holocaust. Ergo has over 300 titles on all aspects of the Jewish
experience in its collection, making it the world’s largest Jewish video
publisher. The company was founded in 1986.
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