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Documentary film. During the evening of Roshashana, the Jewish new year, six brothers and sisters remember their childhood spent during the Second World War in France. Brought up in a Jewish family of Polish immigrants, the eldest brother, Jack, is fifteen when his father is arrested by the French police and sent to Auschwitz. From then on, he has only one goal: save his entire family from death. This film tells the story of survival of a family united by mutual love and faith. the film includes the testimony of the famiily members, personal and national archive films, docuemnts and photogrphas

Director : Sabrina Van Tassel

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 58

Language : French

Life in the Lodz Ghetto

A documentary film including: archival photographs and testimonies. The film describes the harsh reality of the Lodz Ghetto – hard work, starvation, diseases and death

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 6

Language : Silent Film

The road to Baby Yar

A documentary film. With the invasion of Germany into the territory of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, a new stage in the history of the Shoah began, characterized by the massacres of Jews, exemplified in Ukraine. The film shows the events of the first 100 days of the occupation of Ukraine, during which the Nazis, with the participation of local residents, began killing Jews directly in their places of residence, as well as the evolution of the mass murder system in hundreds of killing sites, symbolized by Babi Yar. Conversations with historians, local residents – to those events and Jewish survivors of...

Director : Boris Maftsir

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 107

Language : English, Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian

Exodus Village

סרט תיעודי על חיסול יהודי עיירה Logoisk בבלורוסיה

Director : Felix Kuchar

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 47

Language : Belarusian, Russian