A short trailer for the new documentary; The Story of Gad Beck, the last known gay holocaust survivor who died before turning 89 in Berlin, June 2012. Perhaps the single most important experience that shaped his life was the wartime effort to rescue his boyfriend. Beck donned a Hitler Youth uniform ...

It is 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler has invaded Czechoslovakia, threatening the lives of the Jewish population. Nicholas Winton, a young British stockbroker, decides he will do everything possible to save the lives of as many Jewish children as he can. This film, transmitting on Hol...

An art historian assigned to evaluate a trove of Nazi-looted art found in a Munich flat said was "very emotional" when she first saw the works dating from the 16th century to the modern period from artists such as Canaletto, Courbet, Picasso, Chagall and Toulouse-Lautrec. German customs officials di...

ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Aust

In Ancient Greece and the Roman empire homosexual relationships were an accepted and common practice. In this hyper-masculine society the male form was revered for its physical perfection while women’s virtue was jealously guarded to ensure the legitimacy of children. In Greece romantic and sometime

Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, yet the names of close to 2 million remain anonymous. Since the 1950s, Yad Vashem has worked tirelessly to collect and commemorate the names of men, women and children who were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.

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In THE IMITATION GAME, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII. Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the Univ...

From the moment of her engagement to Prince Charles in 1981 until her untimely death in 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, was arguably the most famous woman in the world. She was an enigma: the most pre-eminent female celebrity of her generation, a fashion icon, an image of feminine beauty, but also a...

The 1944 plot to kill Hitler — called Operation Valkyrie, which was the subject of the 2008 film “Valkyrie,” starring Tom Cruise . Itwas the most famous of attempts on Hitler’s life. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: “This day is a reminder to us, not only of those who acted on July 20, but also

Volunteers are helping forgotten Dutch diarists of WWII to speak at last. Their voices, filled with anxiety, isolation and uncertainty, resonate powerfully today. Anne Frank listened in an Amsterdam attic on March 28, 1944, as the voice of the Dutch minister of education came crackling over the radi