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A Memorial Day documentary comprised of a narration about the history of Memorial Day and interviews from U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy personnel, honoring fallen U.S. service men and women.

n 1941, over twenty thousand West European Jews arrived at the already overcrowded ghetto in Lodz. For the first time in modern history, two distant communities split not only by two centuries of civilization but also by an emancipation which had transformed the life of the Western Jews faced each other. The majority of the Polish Jews considered assimilation an apostasy, whereas the German Jews considered their attachment to an orthodox mysticism and isolation from society ignorant. They even felt an animosity against those coming from the East. And here the two groups were forced to meet.

He was kidnapped up north as summer was drawing to an end. A whole army went to war just to bring him back. He might still be alive. Yet, the day the war ended, he was still the Kidnapped, the Living Dead, the one who didn't return. "Chronicle of a Kidnap" depicts the laborious and Sisyphus attempt of his wife and his family to bring home he who was forgotten the very day the war ended. It is the story of a young woman, his wife, who wished "to bring him the moon" and who inadvertently became an inane pawn in international diplomatic and political stratagems within a Marathon's media representation of her, who like in "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" is destined to encounter death in the last act.

Holocaust survivor Freddie Knoller talks about being a young Jewish man during WWII.