The children of Chabannes / Perennial Pictures Inc. and Wetherell & Associates Inc. present ; produced by Lisa Gossels ; directed and edited by Lisa Gossels and Dean Wetherell.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DVD-0302

Overview

Summary: During World War II many Jewish children were sent out of occupied countries in search of safety. Chabannes, France housed about 400 such refugees in a local chateau used as a school. This documentary presents the accounts of some of the students, teachers and townspeople of the efforts to protect the children in 1942 when the war came to Chabannes.
Format: Video
Published: New York : Docurama : Distributed by New Video Group, [2005]
©2005
Locale: France
Chabannes
Chabannes (Creuse, France)
Edition: Standard format
Other Authors/Editors: Gossels, Lisa.
Wetherell, Dean.
Perennial Pictures, Inc.
Wetherell & Associates, Inc.
Notes: Title and credits from container.

Originally produced as a documentary film in 1999.

Special features: children's art gallery; chateau journal pages; filmmaker biographies.

Cinematography, Mustapha Barat and Philippe Bonner ; music by Joel Goodman.

DVD; Dolby digital stereo.

Soundtrack in English or French.

Emmy Award, Outstanding historical programming

Language: English French
ISBN: 0767073517
9780767073516
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects: Jewish children in the Holocaust--France. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Personal narratives. Villages--France--Chabannes. Chabannes (Creuse, France)--Social conditions. Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Video recordings. Personal narratives.

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