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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767073516
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0767073517
Label: New Video Group
Manufacturer: New Video Group
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Video Group
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 87035
Studio: New Video Group
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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The inspiring story of a courageous frnech village that saved of 400 jewish refuge children during the holocaust. Studio: New Video Group Release Date: 06/28/2005 Run time: 93 minutes
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"The Children of Chabannes" is a compelling documentary that focusses on the heroic acts by the villagers of Chabannes in unoccupied France who helped save the lives of German-Jewish refugee children. Filmmaker Lisa Gosells' documentary is quite personal as her father and uncle were two of those Jewish children saved from the Nazis.
Between 1939 and 1943, Chabannes was the location of choice by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants, or OSE, a Jewish social service organisation that placed ... Read More
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Just watched Children of Chabannes. So very lovely, touching, warm, personal, educated me on so many fronts, and downright: Beautiful. Really wonderful. Most of all: Lovely.
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What an inspiring film! It tells of how a village, Chabonnes, in unoccupied France, during WWII, supported a chateau school of Jewish refuge children. The children left a situation of dire straits in Germany and Poland to attend a setting where they were educated, nurtured and loved. Most would never see their parents again. What stays with the viewer, long after the film's end, is not just how much the children benefited from the school, but how much the school and its faculty gained from the children, ... Read More
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We've watched many Holocaust films & documentaries and read hundreds of stories regarding this horrific time in our world's history. It is a delight when a historical piece comes alive that is inspiring in this way -- documenting how a village, teachers, and a kind-hearted man got together to save Jewish children needing refuge in a place they could call home for a while. There are no graphic scenes nor specific verbal descriptions of what happened to people in the concentration camps, so this is really ... Read More
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I teach sixth graders. We spend time learning about the Holocaust from our WWII unit in our SS book, as well as, our novels. I have just added a film to these studies..."The Children of Chabonnes". All I can say is WOW! It was more touching, informative, and uplifting
than I imagined. It was wonderful. I thought of a hundred ways to use this in school...ok, I may be exaggerating, but it is going
to be a great asset to our curriculum. I cried at a few beautiful statements which I don't ... Read More
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