How many movies about Jewish concentration camps?

Question

I have noticed that there are many movies about concentration camps and many movies about Anne Frank. I was thinking with all the movies about this topic, are there enough that would be the length of time this went on?

Answer 1

I'm a graduate student persuing a degree in Holocaust & Genocide studies.
The institutionalized persecution of the Jews under Hitler's direction started in 1933 when he became chancellor, however, the Holocaust itself did not "officially" begin under people were being sent to ghettos / concentration camps in '39 briefly after the started of WWII.. the camps were all liberated in early 1945, but no, I don't think the movies all together would span that amount of time even though there are hundreds if not thousands of movies to choose from. Are you interested by the subject, or just asking a general question? If you want to watch some great Hollywood movies about the Holocaust, try Schindler's List, Bent, The Pianist, Life is Beautiful, Swing Kids .. if you want some documentaries, try Auschwitz, Shoah, America & the holocaust, survivors and the holocaust or a slew of others that have come out in the past 60+ years.

Answer 2

Making movies about concentration camps is a fairly recent. People who remembered the reality did not want to see it fictionalized. Anne Frank's story (1959) was true and did not take place in a camp but her life in hiding. Movies referred to camps but I can't remember many that actually focused on life in the camps until Schindler's list.

EDIT looking at the list that the previous poster provided indicates that around 1980 or 85 is when it started, about 40 years after the world found out what had happened.

Answer 3

No

Persecution of the Jews began 2000 years ago, hatred of the Jewish people in Europe is not unusual in the slightest, people had been killing Jews and doing horrible things to do them long before the Halocaust, the Halocaust was different because of the sheer scale of it.

Yet the typical Halocaust began from 1933-1944. That's 9 years, no way do the films put back to back run longer then 9 years.

Answer 4

As the other contributor wrote, there are many movies about the Holocaust (or Shoah, according to the term one chooses to use). There are of three types (I think, and unless I am mistaken): fiction (such as Schindler's List) "artistic" documentaries (such as Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, an incredible movie, very long, but that you have to see if you are interested in this subject) and historical documentaries involving Holocaust survivors telling about their experience.

Answer 5

i would say thousands i can name few off hand moloch,the grey zone about an armed rebellion by prisoners at concentration camp,sophie's choice starring meryl streep, conspiracy to commit murder starring stanley tucci, schindler's list, the piano player, night and fog documentary[1956] i think, i woul say there are as many movies made as the time the holocaust went on and more will be made

Answer 6

Many. Follow the links below.
Though specify the question ..."are there enough that would be the length of time this went on?"