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Documentaries like Shoah

Not everyone loves Shoah for the same reason. Pick the one that was yours, and the picks follow.

The 3 reasons people love Shoah

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  1. You want the Holocaust told by those who were there.

  2. You can sit with long silences and slow train journeys.

  3. You can be moved to tears by a barber breaking down as he recalls Treblinka.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

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  • Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution2005

    • the Holocaust told by those who were there

    Good for you if you want to understand how Auschwitz was built and run.

  • The Last Days1998

    • the Holocaust told by those who were there
    • you can be moved to tears by a barber breaking down as he recalls Treblinka

    Good for you if you want to understand the Holocaust in Hungary through five lives.

  • Night and Fog1956

    • the Holocaust told by those who were there

    Good for you if you want the camps documented a decade after, while the sites were still standing.

  • The Look of Silence2014

    • the Holocaust told by those who were there
    • you can sit with long silences and slow train journeys

    Good for you if you want to understand a mass killing that is rarely talked about.

  • Hitler: A Career1977

    • the Holocaust told by those who were there

    Good for you if you want to understand how the Weimar Republic fell to the Nazis.

  • The World at War1973

    • the Holocaust told by those who were there

    Good for you if you want the whole Second World War told in order, front by front.

  • The Diary of Anne Frank2009

    • the Holocaust told by those who were there
    • you can be moved to tears by a barber breaking down as he recalls Treblinka

    Good for you if you want to understand daily life in hiding during the war.

  • Barefoot Gen1983

    • the Holocaust told by those who were there
    • you can be moved to tears by a barber breaking down as he recalls Treblinka

    Good for you if you want to be moved by a child who keeps going after losing almost everything.

  • Apocalypse: The Second World War2009

    • the Holocaust told by those who were there

    Good for you if you like the whole war told from start to end in six episodes.

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