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A Holocaust documentary about the heroic deeds of a Ukrainian woman Kateryna Sikorska, 1906-1943, widow, mother of three small children, who, while trying to save her Jewish neighbours, herself fell victim to the Nazis.

Director : Iryna Korpan

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 58

Language : English, Polish, Ukrainian

Unveiling Ceremony of the Memorial for the Martyrs from Kamenets-Podolsk

טקס גילוי מצבות לזכרם יהודי הונגריה ואוקראינה שנטבחו בעיר קמנץ-פודולסקי.

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 65

Language : Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian

Exiled

Based on Anatoly Dimarov’s novella "Simyon Reznik", this feature film tells a story taking place in the summer of 1941. A poor Jewish wagon slowly moves away from Kolomya, occupied by the fascists, to the yet carefree Poltava. The handsome portly Simon, his incomparable beloved wife Basia, their red-haired children born in love, will find shelter in a Ukrainian village on the banks of the quiet Khorol, they will be saved from the annihilation that awaits them all…

Director : Vladimir Savelyev

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 75

Language : German

משפחת רוזנצוויג - סיפורם של ארבעה הנכדים ששרדו

סרט תיעודי על משפחת רוזנצוויג וסיפור הישרדותה בתקופת השואה.

Director : אלכסנדרה פרקש

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 14

Language : English

Babiy Yar - The Forgotten Crime

Drama taking place on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Kiev in 1941. Two families - Jewish and Ukrainian ponder what the future may hold for them. Genady Lerner a Jew and the patriarch of a relatively large extended family, watches with profoundly mixed emotions as the Russian army retreats from the Ukrainian city under intense bombardment from the advancing Nazi army. Skeptical of the rumors abounding regarding the Nazis' extermination of the Jewish race, Genady opts to remain at the family home. Meanwhile, Genady's longtime neighbor Lena Onofrienko decides that assisting the invading army may be in her best...

Director : Jeff Kanew

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 108

Language : German

Ceremonial Opening of the Memorial to the Holocaust Victims

כתבה טלוויזיונית על טקס הקמת המצבה לזכר קורבנות השואה באזור אודסה Odessa. הטקס התקיים בניו-יורק ב 22.06.1997.

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 48

Language : English, Russian

Semen, the Son Of Ezra And Rachel About Himself

A documentary which tells the story of Semen Rudiak, a young Jewish boy living in a Ghetto in a Ukrainian shtetl in 1941-43 and how this experience affected his life.

Director : Sergei Linkov

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 25

Language : Russian

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Brbrians

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement

Director : Radu Jude

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 140

Language : Romanian

A Shtetl in the Caribbean

TA documentary film. The story of two childhood friends who grew up on Curaçao, in search for their family history in Eastern Europe. Mark and Tsale, children of Eastern European Jews that fled to Curaçao, travel back to the home countries of their ancestors. In a documentary road-movie across Curaçao, the United States, Belarus, Ukraine and Israel, we witness their discoveries while they are reminded of the sacrifices their parents had to make to provide their family with a better future. This story is revealed in a journey from the desolate wastelands of Eastern Europe to the exotic Caribbean.

Director : Sherman De Jesus

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 99

Language : Dutch

The Holocaust by Bullets - Massive Shooting of Jews in Ukraine, 1941-1944

This documentary contains oral testimonies of 10 persons who survived, witnessed, or were requisitioned to participate in the execution of Jews in Ukraine

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 400

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