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The Last Days
Documentary · 1998
This Oscar-winning documentary recounts the harrowing stories of five Hungarian Jews who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler's reign.
The sides of The Last Days
- Five Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust
- Survivors returning to their childhood homes
- Memories of the camps
The Last Days is good for you if…
- you want to hear survivors tell their own stories.
- you want to understand the Holocaust in Hungary through five lives.
- you're ready to be moved to tears by people going back to where it happened.
The Last Days is bad for you if…
- you can't bear firsthand accounts of the camps.
- you can't look at archive footage of bodies in the camps.
About: memory · survival · loss
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