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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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Source :  http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/1/prweb201512.htm