The Boys of Buchenwald is a documentary film that examines how the child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp had to assimilate themselves back into normal society after having experienced the brutality of the Holocaust. The documentary features interviews with the survivors, including Elie Wiesel.
Over four hundred orphans from Buchenwald were sent to an orphanage in France where they were educated and cared for. The documentary follow...
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The Boys of Buchenwald is a documentary film that examines how the child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp had to assimilate themselves back into normal society after having experienced the brutality of the Holocaust. The documentary features interviews with the survivors, including Elie Wiesel.
Over four hundred orphans from Buchenwald were sent to an orphanage in France where they were educated and cared for. The documentary follows the orphans, who are now old men, as they reunite on the 55th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald by the American army.
The now elderly men all agree that their friendships in the orphanage made the tremendous losses they suffered more manageable. “I had just lost my father, and I had witnessed my brother’s murder right next to me,” one survivor says, addressing his best friend. “And then I met you. You were a God send.”
The inhuman treatment they had received in the concentration camps meant the boys needed to relearn how to live in...
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