*The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm

[elleng]

The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm is a short 2018 HBO documentary about the Holocaust. It is intended to be a gentle introduction to the subject suitable for children,[1] featuring a conversation between a 10-year-old boy, Elliott, and his 90-year-old great-grandfather, Jack, a survivor of Auschwitz from World War II.[2][3][4][5] The exchange is woven with historical footage and hand-painted animation to tell a story of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before and during the Holocaust.[6]

The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm was directed and produced by Emmy award winner Amy Schatz.[2][7][5] The animation was done by Jeff Scher, who won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for his work in 2018.[6][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_on_Great-Grandpa%27s_Arm#:~:

[DFW]

1. I had never heard of this

I will see if it can be viewed somewhere without having HBO.

I once knew an Auschwitz survivor in The Hague. He still had the number tattooed on his arm. Really smart, a little whacko, but a funny guy. Quite successful, though he lived very modestly. His wife was a gentile from Austria whose Dutch was fluent but with an atrocious Viennese accent. Very funny to hear if you understood both Dutch and German.

He was a huge soccer fan, and often traveled with the Dutch national team when they had important matches outside of the Netherlands. One time, they had a match in Poland, and he went with them. While he was there, he made a side trip to Auschwitz, which he hadn't seen since the liberation in 1945. I asked him why in the world he would want to go back there after what he had been through. He said he just wanted to stand at the gates and be able to say "I am still here, and you are no more than a relic."

[Joinfortmill]

3. Holocaust was a great stain on humanity.

[agingdem]

5. My parents were Holocaust survivors...Auschwitz

I was born into dysfunction... my mother's screaming nightmares, severe depression, survivor's guilt...my father trusting no one, forever anticipating a second Holocaust...deep holes chiseled into the slab under our beds, filled with money/jewelry (bribes, insuring our escape)...my parents are long gone but living in the here and now, with our democracy under threat from within, they weren't wrong

[Piasladic]

6. I can only imagine.

You are a survivor too.

[JudyM]

16. So sorry for that horrible trauma.

May their memory be a blessing and may you be at peace with it all. :Hug

[RobertDevereaux]

2. Available on Amazon Prime.

Thank you for calling our attention to it.

[70sEraVet]

4. Looks like its on youtube, but not for free.

[mia]

10. Here it is for free.

[elleng]

15. Thank you, mia

[The Jungle 1]

7. We must do this because our schools will not teach history.

I want more of this and I want more subjects covered.
The real history of Native Americans.
The real history of African Americans.
The real history of Irish Americans.
Etc.

[spanone]

8. ...K&R...

[mia]

9. Thank you for your post. Here it is on YouTube

The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm" Screening and Discussion

[IronLionZion]

11. Good to have child friendly options

I've listened to Holocaust survivors speak about it here in DC's Holocaust museum. It's terrifying stuff to hear about the worst of human nature.

[paleotn]

12. Thanks. I'll have to watch it.

A gentle introduction to the most horrific act of inhumanity in at least the last millennium. That wasn't easy, I'm sure.

[Fla Dem]

13. Where you can watch The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm

[George II]

14. When I was very young in Brooklyn, we had a number of refugees from Europe after....

....the war. It wasn't uncommon to see people with numbers on their arms. One of my parents' good friends had a grandparent with one of those tattoos. They explained to us why, but we were too young to get the significance of it.