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- Auschwitz concentration camp survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon revisits Auschwitz 70 years after her liberation, together with two teenage girls the same age she was when she was brought to the camp.
- Ellen Brandt, born on May 10, 1922, in Mannheim, Germany, was the only child of Mathilda Tillie and Guido Andreas Friedsam. Ellen's father served in the German military and was a decorated World War I veteran. When Ellen was six months old, the family moved to Munich where her father bought a paper factory. Foreseeing Hitler's rise to power, Ellen's father thought it dangerous to continue to own a business. Therefore, in early 1933, less than a month before Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany, the family moved to Berlin where Ellen's father ran a factory owned by non-Jews. Her father felt this new position offered his family greater anonymity and safety. In Berlin, Ellen became keenly aware of increasingly limited basic rights or the Jewish community and describes the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 as a life- altering event. She remembers witnessing Jews being beaten to death on the streets and saw others rounded up and taken away. In 1936, she began to be shunned at school when her schoolteachers were no longer allowed to speak to Jewish children, and Jewish students were forbidden from interacting with non-Jewish schoolmates. Ellen's parents eventually removed her from that school and enrolled her in a makeshift Jewish school. Before the outbreak of the war, a relative living in the United States provided Ellen's family with affidavits to flee Germany. Ellen's father was able to expedite the family's departure within twenty-four hours due to his status as a decorated veteran. On April 6, 1938, the family arrived in New York City. Ellen Brandt passed away on Sept. 19, 2008.
- This is a story of loss, legacy, and the power to change the future. It's about family and the memories we leave behind, a story that began 80 years ago in 1937, when eight-year-old Xia Shuqin witnessed the murder of her family in the horror known as the Nanjing Massacre. In just six weeks, 300,000 people were slaughtered at the hands of Japanese soldiers - victims of mass rape and murder. Xia Shuqin and her 4-year-old sister hid from the soldiers for ten long days, concealing themselves under the corpses of their parents and siblings. Shortly after they emerged, American missionary John Magee, who was documenting the atrocities with his 16mm home movie camera, filmed the little girls standing in front of what was once their family home; bearing witness through rare film images of the carnage - and binding his family and theirs forever. The Girl and The Picture brings together two direct descendants of this history as Madame Xia, now 88, shares her legacy of loss and survival with her granddaughter and great-grandson, and with Chris Magee, the grandson of the missionary who captured her image eight decades earlier.