Synopsis
Remembering the horrors of the Holocaust.
- Programme: Belief File
- Episode: Judaism
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2009
- History | Germany, 1890-1945 | Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-39 | The persecution of minorities
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