The Holocaust - Family Documentary - Henryk Carter Liberation 1.27.1945

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is an annual international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust. Approximately 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe in 1933, the year Hitler came to power. This number represented 1.7% of Europe's total population and more than 60 percent of the world's Jewish population. By 1945, most European Jews—2 out of every 3—had been killed. This family documentary is in memory of our maternal and paternal family members' lives before, during, and after the Shoah. In this film their stories are told through the two main characters, our late parents Eddie and Ellen Carter who open the film on their wedding day on CBS television's The Bride and Groom Show. Using photos, video clips, documents, narration, captions and music this two hour film tells the story of our family members in several countries who were murdered, simply because they were Jews. Those of our family members who were living in Germany, France, Silesia/Poland, and Romania attempted to leave between the years 1935 - 1941, not all were successful, as you will see in this video. The few of our family members who survived after Nazi and/or Soviet concentration /slave labor camps, and the Polish Army, immigrated either to the USA or Israel between the years 1948 -1949. In their words... Clips of Testimony Interviews and images of family members, from Uncle Kurt B. Fischel, and cousins Marcel Berkowitz and Henryk Carter are from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. For more information: sfi.usc.edu/ Aunt Eva Millett's clip is from the St Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, all are used with permission from the two institutions. In Blessed Memory of my late mother and late grandmother whose yahrzeits are in Shevat. "oma" Rosel Fischel z"l (1909 - 1991) and mother Ellen L. Carter z"l (1930 - 1984) 22 and 23 Shevat. May they both rest in peace knowing that the promise I made to them was kept. Their family members have a voice once again, even after over 80 years.