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The rescue of the Danish Jews in 1943 stands as a bright spot in the history of the 2nd World War. World War. Most Danish Jews managed to escape to Sweden before the Nazis captured them. However, some children never made it that far and were left behind in Denmark while their parents fled. In the documentary The Hidden Children, three of these children talk about their experiences of living in hiding during the war and, not least, what happened when their parents returned after the war. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".
Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters, and belongings left behind, Mariska assembles a new portrait of her mother Jayne Mansfield, an extraordinary and complex woman.
