The documentary film "The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz" and an episode of the TV series "Heritage: Civilization and the Jews" about the Holocaust of European Jews

- the documentary "The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz": German occupation of Lodz; persecution and murder of Jews; the appointment of Chaim Rumkowski as head of the Judenrat in October 1939; burning down synagogues and murdering Jewish leaders in November 1939; deportation of Jews to the ghetto in February-March 1940; life in the ghetto; the closing of the ghetto in May 1940; obligation to use a special currency in the ghetto; changing the ghetto currency with Rumkowski in exchange for valuables and buying food and supplies from the Nazis; establishment of a Jewish police by Rumkowski; morbidity due to starvation; establishment of fabric production for the Wehrmacht in the ghetto by Rumkowski and Hans Biebow (in exchange for food and raw material from the Nazis); establishment of civil services in the ghetto (fire brigade staff, hospitals, schools, libraries, cultural events, etc.); development of the administration of the ghetto; welfare in the ghetto; opposition to Rumkowski and his policies in the ghetto; refusal to distribute food to the ghetto inmates who did not work; deportations starting in 1942; preparing lists for deportations; deportation and murder of 20 thousand Jews in Chelmno; deterioration of conditions in the ghetto; high morbidity due to hunger; deportation of hospitalized patients from the ghetto hospitals; Aktions against children and the elderly; demonstrations and rebellions against Rumkowski; suppressing the rebels; liquidation of the ghetto in August 1944; the murder of Rumkowski by Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz; - episode of the TV series "Heritage: Civilization and the Jews" (episode 8, "Out of the Ashes"): Jewish culture at the beginning of the 20th century; Zionism; Communist Jews in Russia; the situation in the Weimar Republic; the history of the Nazi party and the rise of the Nazis to power; Nazi policy; concentration of people from the political opposition in Dachau camp; persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany; race laws; the escape of Jews from Germany; aliya to Eretz Israel; pioneer life in Eretz Israel; refusal of entry to refugees by the USA and Cuba at the end of the 1930s; the life of European Jews in the ghettos under German occupation; the establishment of extermination camps and gas murder; the Sonderkommando; revolts in the ghettos; the situation of Danish Jews; the hiding of Jews and their smuggling to Sweden by the Danish population; the treatment by the Allies; victory and liberation; a concluding word; - excerpt from a documentary film about Mordechai Bar On and the Arab-Jewish conflict in Israel.