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1995 film by Kary Antholis

One Survivor Remembers

Directed by	Kary Antholis
Produced by	Kary Antholis
Starring	Gerda Weissmann Klein
Narrated by	Peter Thomas
Distributed by	HBO
Release date	1995 (1995)
Running time	40 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

One Survivor Remembers is a 1995 documentary short film by Kary Antholis.

Summary

Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein recounts her six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty, including the loss of her parents, brother, friends, home, possessions, and community.

Legacy

A production of HBO and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the film won the 1996 Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject and the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Informational Special. In 2005, the film was offered by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance program for high school teachers to teach their students about the realities of the Holocaust.

In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

References

Memorable Oscar® acceptance speech-Oscars on YouTube
1996|Oscars.org
"Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
King, Susan. "National Film Registry selects 25 films for preservation " Los Angeles Times (December 19, 2012)
"Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-07.

External links

One Survivor Remembers essay by Kary Antholis on the National Film Registry website
One Survivor Remembers at IMDb
Holocaust documentary film
One Survivor Remembers at HBO
One Survivor Remembers at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
One Survivor Remembers at Teaching Tolerance

Awards for One Survivor Remembers

v t e Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film
1941–1975	Churchill's Island (1941) No Award (1942) December 7th (1943) With the Marines at Tarawa (1944) Hitler Lives (1945) Seeds of Destiny (1946) First Steps (1947) Toward Independence (1948) A Chance to Live / So Much for So Little (1949) Why Korea? (1950) Benjy (1951) Neighbours (1952) The Alaskan Eskimo (1953) Thursday's Children (1954) Men Against the Arctic (1955) The True Story of the Civil War (1956) No Award (1957) Ama Girls (1958) Glass (1959) Giuseppina (1960) Project Hope (1961) Dylan Thomas (1962) Chagall (1963) Nine from Little Rock (1964) To Be Alive! (1965) A Year Toward Tomorrow (1966) The Redwoods (1967) Why Man Creates (1968) Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969) Interviews with My Lai Veterans (1970) Sentinels of Silence (1971) This Tiny World (1972) Princeton: A Search for Answers (1973) Don't (1974) The End of the Game (1975)
1976–2000	Number Our Days (1976) Gravity Is My Enemy (1977) The Flight of the Gossamer Condor (1978) Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) Karl Hess: Toward Liberty (1980) Close Harmony (1981) If You Love This Planet (1982) Flamenco at 5:15 (1983) The Stone Carvers (1984) Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements (1985) Women – for America, for the World (1986) Young at Heart (1987) You Don't Have to Die (1988) The Johnstown Flood (1989) Days of Waiting (1990) Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment (1991) Educating Peter (1992) Defending Our Lives (1993) A Time for Justice (1994) One Survivor Remembers (1995) Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996) A Story of Healing (1997) The Personals (1998) King Gimp (1999) Big Mama (2000)
2001–present	Thoth (2001) Twin Towers (2002) Chernobyl Heart (2003) Mighty Times: The Children's March (2004) A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2005) The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006) Freeheld (2007) Smile Pinki (2008) Music by Prudence (2009) Strangers No More (2010) Saving Face (2011) Inocente (2012) The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013) Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 (2014) A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015) The White Helmets (2016) Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (2017) Period. End of Sentence. (2018) Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) (2019) Colette (2020) The Queen of Basketball (2021) The Elephant Whisperers (2022) The Last Repair Shop (2023)

v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special
1970s	The Body Human / The Great Whales: National Geographic Special (1978) Scared Straight! (1979)
1980s	The Body Human: The Magic Sense (1980) The Body Human: The Bionic Breakthrough / Steve Allen's Meeting of Minds (1981) Creativity with Bill Moyers / The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982) The Barbara Walters Specials / The Body Human: The Living Code (1983) A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers / America Remembers John F. Kennedy (1984) * Cousteau: Mississippi / The Living Planet (1985) Laurence Olivier: A Life (Great Performances) / Planet Earth / W.C. Fields: Straight Up (1986) Agnes, the Indomitable DeMille (Great Performances) / Smithsonian World / Unknown Chaplin (American Masters) (1987) Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (American Masters) / Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam / Nature (1988) Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me (American Masters) / Nature (1989)
1990s	Bob Fosse: Steam Heat (Great Performances) / Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (American Masters) / Smithsonian World (1990) The Civil War / Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter (American Masters) (1991) Abortion: Desperate Choices / MGM: When Lions Roared (1992) Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers / Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie (1993) I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School / Later with Bob Costas (1994) Baseball / One Survivor Remembers / Taxicab Confessions / TV Nation (1995) Survivors of the Holocaust / Time Life's Lost Civilizations (1996) Biography / The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century / National Geographic Special: Tigers of the Snow / Without Pity: A Film About Abilities (1997)
2010s	Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown / Inside the Actors Studio (2013) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown / Vice (2014) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2015) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2016) Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (2017) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2018) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2019)
2020s	Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (2020) Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (2021) Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (2022) Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (2023) My Next Guest with David Letterman and John Mulaney (2024)
Between 1998–2012, the award was bestowed as Outstanding Nonfiction Series.

HBO documentaries

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1990s	Skinheads USA: Soldiers of the Race War (1993) Shock Video (1993) One Survivor Remembers (1995) Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (1995–2023) Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case For Reasonable Doubt? (1996) Paradise Lost (1996) Without Pity: A Film About Abilities (1996) 4 Little Girls (1997) City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal (1998) Private Dicks: Men Exposed (1999)
2000s	Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000) The Iceman Confesses (2001) Just, Melvin: Just Evil (2001) Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen (2001) American Standoff (2002) Jim Brown: All-American (2002) Born Rich (2003) Capturing the Friedmans (2003) Thinking XXX (2004) Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team (2005) All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise (2006) When the Levees Broke (2006) Autism: The Musical (2007) Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi (2007) I Am an Animal (2007) Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007) Cat Dancers (2008) The One Percent (2008) Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) Boy Interrupted (2009) By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (2009) China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (2009) Good Hair (2009) The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner (2009) The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (2009) One Minute to Nine (2009) Reporter (2009) The Trials of Ted Haggard (2009) 12th & Delaware (2010) The Battle for Marjah (2010) A Small Act (2010)
2010s	Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011) Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip (2011) His Way (2011) Love Crimes of Kabul (2011) The Loving Story (2011) There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane (2011) 41 (2012) Crossfire Hurricane (2012) Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012) Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2012) 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus (2013) An Apology to Elephants (2013) Casting By (2013) Fall to Grace (2013) Gideon's Army (2013) Life According to Sam (2013) Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden (2013) Six by Sondheim (2013) Valentine Road (2013) Vice (2013–2018) Banksy Does New York (2014) Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart (2014) The Case Against 8 (2014) Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (2014) Love Child (2014) Private Violence (2014) Saving My Tomorrow (2014) 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets (2015) Citizenfour (2015) The Diplomat (2015) Everything Is Copy (2015) A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015) Going Clear (2015) How to Dance in Ohio (2015) J. Cole: Road to Homecoming (2015) The Jinx (2015) Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015) Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop (2015) Abortion: Stories Women Tell (2016) Brillo Box (3 ¢ Off) (2016) Class Divide (2016) Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution (2016) Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper (2016) The Trans List (2016) Unlocking the Cage (2016) Baltimore Rising (2017) Becoming Warren Buffett (2017) Beware the Slenderman (2017) Bright Lights (2017) Cries from Syria (2017) The Defiant Ones (2017) Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends) (2017) If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (2017) J. Cole: 4 Your Eyez Only (2017) Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017) The Newspaperman (2017) Rock and a Hard Place (2017) Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prison (2017) Spielberg (2017) Traffic Stop (2017) Arthur Miller: Writer (2018) Atomic Homefront (2018) Axios (2018–2021) Believer (2018) The Final Year (2018) King in the Wilderness (2018) May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers (2018) The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm (2018) The Price of Everything (2018) Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018) Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age (2018) The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018) At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (2019) Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2019) The Case Against Adnan Syed (2019) I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth V. Michelle Carter (2019) Ice on Fire (2019) The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) Leaving Neverland (2019) Running with Beto (2019) United Skates (2019) What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (2019) The Apollo (2019) Wig (2019)
2020s	After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News (2020) McMillions (2020) Autism: The Sequel (2020) Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020) Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn (2020) How To with John Wilson (2020–2023) I'll Be Gone in the Dark (2020) Welcome to Chechnya (2020) Showbiz Kids (2020) Stockton on My Mind (2020) The Weight of Gold (2020) The Swamp (2020) Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn (2020) Agents of Chaos (2020) Wild Card: The Downfall of a Radio Loudmouth (2020) Siempre, Luis (2020) The Perfect Weapon (2020) 537 Votes (2020) The Soul of America (2020) Burning Ojai: Our Fire Story (2020) Transhood (2020) Crazy, Not Insane (2020) The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper (2020) Baby God (2020) The Vow (2020–2022) 40 Years a Prisoner (2020) Alabama Snake (2020) The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (2020) The Art of Political Murder (2020) Tiger (2021) Fake Famous (2021) Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021) Painting with John (2021–2023) The Lady and the Dale (2021) Covid Diaries NYC (2021) Allen v. Farrow (2021) The Day Sports Stood Still (2021) Tina (2021) The Last Cruise (2021) Q: Into the Storm (2021) Exterminate All the Brutes (2021) Our Towns (2021) Pray, Obey, Kill (2021) The Crime of the Century (2021) Revolution Rent (2021) The Legend of the Underground (2021) Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage (2021) Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes (2021) Back on the Record with Bob Costas (2021–2022) Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union (2021) In the Same Breath (2021) Small Town News: KPVM Pahrump (2021) NYC Epicenters 9/11→2021½ (2021) Level Playing Field (2021) Nuclear Family (2021) Four Hours at the Capitol (2021) Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story (2021) A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks (2021) Simple as Water (2021) Jagged (2021) Black and Missing (2021) DMX: Don't Try to Understand (2021) Life of Crime 1984-2020 (2021) Adrienne (2021) Listening to Kenny G (2021) The Forever Prisoner (2021) The Slow Hustle (2021) Mr. Saturday Night (2021) Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021) The Murders at Starved Rock (2021) Juice Wrld: Into the Abyss (2021) Reopening Night (2021) Insecure: The End (2021) The Super Bob Einstein Movie (2021) Terry Bradshaw: Going Deep (2022) Icahn: The Restless Billionaire (2022) Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (2022) Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall (2022) Phoenix Rising (2022) How to Survive a Pandemic (2022) When We Were Bullies (2022) Tony Hawk: Until The Wheels Fall Off (2022) The Invisible Pilot (2022) Spring Awakening: Those You've Known (2022) George Carlin's American Dream (2022) The Janes (2022) Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (2022) Endangered (2022) Mind Over Murder (2022) We Met in Virtual Reality (2022) Edge of the Earth (2022) The Princess (2022) Katrina Babies (2022) Escape From Kabul (2022) Hostages (2022) 38 at the Garden (2022) Mama's Boy (2022) Year One: A Political Odyssey (2022) A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting (2022) Say Hey, Willie Mays! (2022) Master of Light (2022) Camilo: El Primer Tour De Mi Vida (2022) 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2022) The Howard Stern Interview: Bruce Springsteen (2022) My So-Called High School Rank (2022) Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo (2022) Pelosi in the House (2022) Shaq (2022) Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo (2022) Branson (2022) Sex Diaries (2022) This Place Rules (2022) Game Theory with Bomani Jones (2022) All That Breathes (2023) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2023) Jason Isbell: Running with Our Eyes Closed (2023) Moonage Daydream (2023) 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed (2023) Angel City (2023) Love to Love You, Donna Summer (2023) Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023) Burden of Proof (2023) How Do You Measure a Year? (2023) The Stroll (2023) Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2023) Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023) The Golden Boy (2023) Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York (2023) After the Bite (2023) BS High (2023) Telemarketers (2023) Savior Complex (2023) The Insurrectionist Next Door (2023) Navajo Police: Class 57 (2023) You Were My First Boyfriend (2023) Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God (2023) Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning (2023) Time Bomb Y2K (2023) Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2024) God Save Texas (2024) A Revolution on Canvas (2024) The Truth vs. Alex Jones (2024) The Synanon Fix (2024) Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. (2024) MoviePass, MovieCrash (2024) Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play. (2024) Quad Gods (2024) Faye (2024) Ren Faire (2024) Wild Wild Space (2024) Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes (2024) Chimp Crazy (2024) Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) Breath of Fire (2024) Surveilled (2024) Night is Not Eternal (2024)

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