Nominated for Best Documentary Short 
75 years after her brother's death, French Resistance hero Colette Marin-Catherine journeys for the first time to the concentration camp where he was murdered.
Content warning: The Holocaust.
There has been a surge in Holocaust denial in recent years because we collectively recoil from the images and stories of such atrocity and horror. And it may seem like that recoil is a reflection of our humanity, that we don't want to consider that people are capable of inflicting that level of pain and degradation, that somehow we are better than that and if we focus on the positive, on the virtuous, it will somehow prevent the barbarity from occurring again.
It will not.
It must be faced and scrutinized. The horror must be experienced so empathy can grow. It is a transformative relationship. This short is only 24 minutes, so it's maybe more palatable than longer form documentaries or dramatizations like Schindler's List. It's also free on YouTube. It is an extremely hard watch but I encourage you to do so. Please educate yourselves and your (age-appropriate) children.
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