Lost Childhood : the Story of the Birkenau Boys
Title
Lost Childhood : the Story of the Birkenau Boys
Description
A group of Holocaust survivors -- some of the 89 Jewish boys spared by Dr. Joseph Mengele to serve as slave laborers in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp -- return to Europe fifty years later. They recount their experiences in the camp, their survival tactics and coping mechanisms, and the emotional scars they still carry. Hosted by veteran TV journalist Rich Newberg. Photographed and edited by WIVB-TV Chief Photographer Mike Mombrea Jr. Shot on the grounds of the Terezin concentration camp and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Originally aired on WIVB-TV.
Contributor
Date
1995-08-31
Source
Rich Newberg Reports Collection
Publisher
WIVB (Television Station : Buffalo, N.Y.)
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
Rights
Copyright held by The Boys of Birkenau, Inc. Access to this digital version provided by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Videos or images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of producers Rich Newberg or Mike Mombrea, Jr. and the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
Relation
Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
Type
Moving Image
Format
video/mp4
Language
Collection
Citation
Newberg, Rich (Producer, Writer, Host) and Mombrea Jr., Mike (Producer, Photographer, Editor), “Lost Childhood : the Story of the Birkenau Boys,” B&ECPL Digital Collections, accessed December 26, 2024, https://digital.buffalolib.org/document/1827.