SAN DIEGO — Amazon and Netflix feature a myriad of Holocaust feature films and documentaries.
Here are a few recommended Holocaust films that you can stream.
1945: Two Jews return to their Hungarian village after the war causing a panic among the inhabitants who fear why they have come back. Amazon, Tubi.
Aftermath: Two brothers uncover the secret that their townspeople participated in killing Jews during the war. Amazon, Tubi, Vudu,
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Auschwitz: The Nazis and Final Solution: Six part series tracing the evolution of Auschwitz from a camp for political prisoners and slave laborers into an extermination camp. Netflix
Conspiracy: Dramatization of the Wannsee Conference meeting where the logistics of the Final Solution were delegated. Amazon, Google Play, HBO Now, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube.
Denial: Dramatization of Deborah Lipstadt’s trial for allegedly slandering Holocaust denier David Irving. Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Fanny’s Journey: An uplifting Holocaust children’s film about a young girl shepherding her sisters and other Jewish youngsters from France to Switzerland . Amazon, Vudu.
A Film Unfinished. Found footage of a film the Germans were making about the Warsaw Ghetto. Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube.
Germans and Jews: Documentary about the attitudes and experiences of Jews residing in today’s Germany and of how their German Gentile contemporaries regard them. Amazon.
The Invisibles: The stories of four Jews who managed to hide in wartime Berlin. Amazon, Kanopy, Vudu
Korkoro: One of the few feature films about the persecution of Romanis by the Nazis. Vudu.
Labyrinth of Lies. Docudrama about the resistance a German investigator received in getting his government’s cooperation in arresting and trying Nazi war criminals. Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube.
Nazi Death Squads: Documentary about the Einsatzgruppen. Hulu, Netflix.
The Photographer of Mauthausen: True story of interned Spanish photographer who managed to take and hide thousands of photos documenting the atrocities in Mauthausen. Netflix.
Phoenix: A disfigured Jewish survivor receives plastic surgery to reunite with the Gentile lover who betrayed her. Amazon, IFC Films Unlimited.
Primo: Anthony Sher as Primo Levi recalling how he survived in Auschwitz. HBO-GO, Hulu.
The Resistance Banker: Dutch brothers who helped fund the anti-Nazi resistance. Netflix.
Riphagen: Infamous Dutch collaborator who betrayed many Jews while helping a few. Netflix
The Round Up: The mass arrests of of Jews in Paris on July 17, 1942. Amazon, Vudu, YouTube.
Sobibor: A Russian film about the prisoner revolt in Sobibor. Amazon, Kanopy, Vudu.
Son of Saul: Oscar winning film about a Sonderkommando member intent on giving a Jewish burial to a boy who was gassed. Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube.
Süskind: Dutch Jewish Council member rescues Jewish children. Amazon, Kanopy, Vudu.
We Shall Not Die Now. The story of the Holocaust told by survivors and liberators. Amazon,
Where Hands Touch: A rare film about the plight of an Afro-German girl under Nazism. Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, Vudu, YouTube.
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Laurie Baron, Ph.D, is professor emeritus of European History at San Diego State University; a humor columnist (in his own name and in that of his dog Elona), and is an authority on Jewish-themed movies, particularly those dealing with the Holocaust. To see an archive of his stories, please click on his byline at the top of this page. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com