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We Always Walked Together – The Story of Lili Gomboš

A short documentary. Lili Gomboš, born in 1930, lived in Zagreb until the beginning of the Second World War. After the outbreak of war, she managed to escape with part of her family from the Independent State of Croatia to Dalmatia, to the territory under Italian administration. From November 1942 she was interned in the camp in Kraljevica, and then from June 1943 in the camp on the island of Rab. In 1944, she was taken via Trieste to Auschwitz-Birkenau and survived the war through a set of circumstances. Her entire family was killed in the Holocaust, except for her sister Estera who joined the Partisans and...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 31

Language : Croatian

Jasenovac - The Truth

A documentary film. This controversial film contends that the extent of the Holocaust in Croatia and the World War two genocide of the country's Serb population was exaggerated through post-war communist propaganda. It focuses primarily on Jasenovac, a concentration camp run by Croatia's wartime fascist Ustaše government where an estimated 100,000 are believed to have perished, but the film suggests that the actual death toll never exceeded 18,000. This lies at the center of the controversy around the film and its director. The film also argues that Jasenovac continued being used as a concentration camp by...

Director : Jakov Sedlar

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 60

Language : Croatian

נשכחים

A documentary. The film brings to light the Holocaustof the Jewry of former Yugoslavia/ The Holocaust in YUogoslavia resulted in the slaying of 85% of the members of it's Jewish community, who previously did not suffer any form of discrimination. Stella, the film's protagonist and a young Israeli born in Yugoslavia, researches the nature of the extermination of Jews in each region of Yugoslavia, the part played in it by the Germans, and the part played by the various nationalities that that constitute Yugoslavia. In parallel, Stella explors the fate of her Muslim great-grandfather who saved Jews...

Director : Nitza Gonen

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 74

Language : Croatian, English, Hebrew, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovenian

Битола Евреи

סרט תיעודי על שואת יהודי העיר ביטולה, ויהודי מקדוניה.

Duration : 77

Language : Russian