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Episode 10 in director’s Péter Forgács series "Private Hungary" which is based on a home footage that document the daily life of the Hungarians, before, during and after WWII. This experimental film is based on home movies, documenting the family life of Hungarian Jews from 1937 until the German occupation in 1944. This is a joint effort of the film director Péter Forgács and György Pető, an amateur photographer whose dozens of reels of film were made by Forgacs into a cinematic testimony about Hungary during the war and the German occupation.

Director : Peter Forgacs

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 71 75

Language : English, Hungarian

The Oppermans, Part 1

A television adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger "The Oppermann House" (Die Geschwister), co-production of the BBC and ZDF (German 2nd TV channel). The story of the Oppermanns, a Jewish-German family, owners of a big department store in Berlin of the early 30s.

Director : Egon Monk

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 104

Language : English, German

Haus-Berg-Verbot

The Alpine Club of Villach has introduced the so-called "Aryan paragraph" in 1920, shortly after banning all Jews access to the refuge on Dobrac. This dark chapter of mountaineering Carinthia, carefully examined by the historian Werner Koroschitz, has provided inspiration for artistic action on the "home mountain" of Villach. Participants: Wolfram Kastner (DE): Installation "Weg der Namen", Ernst Logar: Ausstellung "Judenhütte", Paul Gulda: Musik unter freiem Himmel

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 8

Language : German

Born in Berlin - Three Women Between Berlin and Jerusalem

This penetrating documentary produced for Israeli television looks at the lives of three Jewish women writers: Cordelia Edvardson, Angelika Schrobsdorff, and Inge Deutschkron. All three grew up in pre-war Berlin, until Nazi racial laws shattered their lives. Uprooted and cut off from family and friends, all three women made their way to Israel, where they became accomplished journalists and authors. The film follows the unique paths taken by each of these women in her quest for identity and the meaning of life in the aftermath of their dreadful wartime experiences.

Director : Noemi Schory, Liora Kaminetzki

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 80

Language : English, German, Hebrew, Swedish

Holocaust Witness - Emerich Roth

A documentary film. The story of Emerich Roth, born in 1924 in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia as the oldest child of five and today residing in Sweden. Testimony and archival footage and details Roth’s story from the pre-war Jewish life in his city of birth to his present engagement in countering racism and Nazism by frequently visiting schools all over Sweden in order to tell his story. Roth was deported with his family from the local ghetto to Auschwitz, where his mother and two of his little sisters were murdered. Roth survived several different concentration camps and was initially able to stay together with his...

Director : Richard Nadworny

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 40

Language : Swedish

All My Loved Ones

The story of a Jewish family in Czechoslovakia in 1938. Enveloped by a warm, family tradition that was centuries old, the Silbersteins belatedly recognized the horrors of what was to come. Interwoven into the Silberstein's world is the true story of Nicholas Winton, a young English stockbroker who heroically succeeded in smuggling 664 children from Prague to Britain in 1939.

Director : Matej Minac

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 95

Language : Czech

The Oppermanns, Part 2

Television adaptation of Leon Feuchtwanger's book "The Oppermanns" (Die Geschwister) stories of the Oppermann family, an assimilated well to do Jewish family in Berlin in the early 1930s.

Director : Egon Monk

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 121

Language : German

Survival of a Spirit

סרט תיעודי משולב אנימציה.

Director : Patricia Bury Salier

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 51

Language : English

Right In Front My Eyes – The Story Of Sami Modiano

A documentary folm. The story of Holocaust survivor , Sami Modiano. He was born and raised on the island of Rhodes. Sami was deported together with his father Jacob and his sister Lucia to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in 23q7q1944, of which he was the only survivor, and only one of 25 survivors of the entire Rhodes Jewish community. The film was made for 80 years of the race laws in Italy. In 2013 Modiano published his his memoir, “For this I lived”, in which he describes the hell of Auschwitz

Director : Walter Veltroni

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 46

Language : Italian

מעגל הרשע של היטלר - פרק 7 - עלייתו ונפילתו של ריינהרד היידריך

A docu-drama television series. Episode 7 : Men like ex-chicken farmer and leader of the SS — Heinrich immler, Hitler’s adoring but mentally unhinged deputy — Rudolf Hess, fighter ace turned morphine addict — Hermann Göring and sex-crazed propaganda chief — Joseph Goebbels. As they scrabble for power, they will turn on each other in a murky atmosphere of intrigue, betrayal and murder. In a regime where all power derives from one man, they strive to out-do each other in brutality and an unequivocal commitment to the Nazi cause.

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 52

Language : English

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