The Last Days is a documentary, directed by James Moll

James Moll

James Moll is a film director and producer.His company, Allentown Productions, has been based at Universal Studios since 1994, primarily producing film and television projects focused on stories of non-fiction....

 and produced by June Beallor and Kenneth Lipper

Kenneth Lipper

Kenneth Lipper is a prominent figure in the arts, in the world of finance, and in government. He served as New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Finance and Economic Development under Ed Koch , and has worked variously as a lawyer, investment banker, professor, novelist, screenwriter, Academy Award...

 in 1998. Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

 was one of the executive producer

Executive producer

An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...

s, in his role as founder of the Shoah Foundation

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing the Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List...

. The film tells the the stories of five Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust

The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...

. It focuses on the horrors of life in the concentration camps

Nazi concentration camps

Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled. The first Nazi concentration camps set up in Germany were greatly expanded after the Reichstag fire of 1933, and were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the regime...

, but also stresses the optimism and desire to survive of the survivors.

The film won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Survivors featured in the film:

-Bill Basch

-Irene Zisblatt

-Rene Firestone

-Alice Lok Cahana

Alice Lok Cahana

Alice Lok Cahana is an Hungarian Holocaust survivor. She was a teenage inmate in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Guben and Bergen-Belsen camps. She is most well known for her writings and abstract paintings about the Holocaust....

-Tom Lantos

Tom Lantos

Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until his death, representing the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of southwest San Francisco...

-Dario Gabbai

Dario Gabbai

David Dario Gabbai is a Greek Sephardi Jew and Holocaust survivor, notable for his role as a member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz...

-Randolph Braham

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