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This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker's father was a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939. The film opens with their return to his birthplace in east Germany. For the first time, the filmmaker understands what it must be like to have been the object of hatred, as she watches her father's reaction to the places of his childhood. Returning to...

Director : Mitzi Goldman

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 55

Language : English, German

Altalena

The documentary tells the story of Altalena, an Etzel Hagana ship which Hagana men blew up on June 22th, 1948 at Tel-Aviv beach. Three of the founding fathers of Israel were involved in this event: David Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Rabin. Why did Ben-Gurion instruct Israeli soldiers to open fire? Why did Yitzhak Rabin call this day "the blackest day in my life?" The film follows the journey of the Altalena from its departure from the port in France, with 930 man, many of which Holocaust survivors, and ammunition on board.

Director : Ilana Tsur

Production Year : 1994

Language : Hebrew

Winess 4 - Dreams

A four movement suite. This music was inspired by Professor Emeritus Stephen Jablonsky's viewing Schindler's List in 1993. This is the fourth and final movement of the suite entitled Witness. It tries to depict the dreams that ran through the minds of all those who were imprisoned in the Nazi death camps. Amazingly only three years after the end of the war the state of Israel was born––a dream that none of those prisoners could have possibly imagined. It was a dream first imagined by Theodore Herzl a very long time ago. Believe it or not, 1948 was 72 years ago and the country is still at war with its neighbors....

Director : Stephen Jablonsky

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 6

804 - South Africans Volunteer in Israel's War of Independence

A documentary about the South African volunteers who fought in Israel's War of Independence in 1948. Told mostly through interviews with the surviving South African Machalniks, this is a unique firsthand account of a widely overlooked group's essential contribution to Israel's early survival. Many of the stories conveyed here have never before been printed, recorded or circulated. These intimate personal testimonies feature within a broader historical narrative of the time, incorporating interviews withe leading scholars of Jewish history such as professor Milton Shain and Sir Martin Gilbert.

Director : Etienne Naude

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 53

Language : English