Shoah

References include prisoners placed in crematoriums and gas chambers and vans, bodies crushed into powdered bone and deposited into rivers, and corpses put in ditches and buried in mass graves. Other mentions include prisoners shot, beaten, or committing suicide, thrown on top of each another in railroad cars, and asked to undress by camp guards for the "disinfection squad."

Claims made by Polish women about the competition they encounter with Jewish women for romantic relationships with Polish men.

Swear words include "a--hole," "hell," and “s--t." Slurs include "bastards," "filthy swine," and use of the anti-Semitic phrases such as "Final Solution," "Jewish problem," and "Jew language."

Images include packs of cigarettes as well as the director, a language translator, and interviewees smoking. Glasses of beer and bottles of alcohol are displayed inside a restaurant. There's a discussion about vodka given as a form of payment instead of cash to train workers to use it to relieve their stress from the sound of screams and smell of the prisoners inside railroad cars. Mentions include an individual reportedly using barbiturates to end their life, and claims of another person drinking heavily.

Parents need to know that Shoah is a nearly 10-hour documentary about survivors, witnesses, and others who share their accounts of the horror of the Holocaust. The film doesn't show archival or graphic footage and contains English subtitles. References include prisoners placed in crematoriums and gas chambers and vans, bodies crushed into powdered bone and deposited into rivers, and corpses put in ditches and buried in mass graves. Other mentions include prisoners being shot, beaten, or committing suicide, thrown on top of each another in railroad cars, and asked to undress by camp guards for the "disinfection squad." Swear words include "a--hole," "hell," and "s--t." Slurs include "bastards," "filthy swine," and use of anti-Semitic phrases such as "Final Solution," "Jewish language," and "Jew problem." There are images that include the director, a language translator, and interviewees smoking. Bottles of alcohol and glasses of beer. There's a discussion about vodka given as a form of payment to train workers to use it to relieve their stress from the sound of screams and smell of prisoners.

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