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A feature film. 1952, Paris. Nadia, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a " Paris Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stיphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father goes to the police. Stיphane faces charges, so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing. In a parallel story, Nadia's mother meets again her prewar lover, released from Siberia, who challenges the...

Director : Véra Belmont

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 112

Language : French

Cabaret Polska

This film combines the documentary genre with the cabaret. Only 25 years after Nazi Germany carried out the Holocaust on Polish soil, 30,000 Jews, including intelligentsia, scientists, artists and exceptional writers, were expelled from Poland. In the anti-Semitic campaign sponsored by the state in March 1968 in Communist Poland, the last Holocaust survivors - in the pre-war country of more than three million Jewish citizens - were declared "Foreigners," "Zionists," "Cosmopolites," and "Enemies of the Polish People's Republic", and forced to leave the country. Many of the emmigrants found shelter in Scandinavia,...

Director : ניר דויד זץ, Zuzanna Solakiewicz

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 49

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Lake 68

In the early 1960s the Brodzkys, the Baumritters and the Burgins, three families of ideological communists of mostly Jewish origin who remained friends, decided to buy a plot of land at Dłużek lake on the outskirts of Mazury, Poland’s lake district, to build summer homes. But, a wave of anti-Semitism forced the members of the Polish communist elite, who barely considered themselves Jewish, to emigrate from Poland in 1968. Most went to Sweden, Denmark, France, U.S. and Canada, and some to Israel - but before they left, they spent their last weeks crowded into the lake house The documentary was made by Stanisław...

Director : Irit Shamgar

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 53

Language : Hebrew, Polish

The Little Town of Kroke

A story of the pre-war Krakow as seen by the Jews. Unique archive materials, which had not been published before, present their carefree youth which was suddenly disrupted and turned into the hell of the Holocaust. Some of them left Poland after the war but they keep coming back t oKrakow, a city full of childhood memories.

Director : Kuba Karyś, Natalia Schmidt

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 44

Language : Polish

Pogrom is Murder? Kielce 4.07.1946

A documentary depicting the murder of Jews in Kielce in 1946, based on the latest studies of Polish Institute Instytut Pamięci Narodowej folk-IPN, interviews with historians and experts, photographs and archival documents and maps of the city.

Director : Artur Janicki

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 32

Language : Polish

Birth certificate

Threes short- stories (On the road, Letter from the camp, Blood drop) presenting full of tension atmosphere of every day occupation life, From the children's perspective.

Director : Stanislaw Rozewicz

Production Year : 1961

Duration : 99

Language : Polish

The Legacy of Jedwabne

The story of the Jedwabne massacre continues to be a painful wound in the hearts and minds of both Polish Christians and Jews. One can only hope that true history reveals itself in all of our lives, even if this occurs several generations later. This thought-provoking film will spark dynamic dialogue about the importance of historical memory for negotiations of cultural identity and for Jewish-gentile relations; by initiating and encouraging this dialogue, this film will increase tolerance and understanding, thereby forging new alliances between Jews and non-Jews.

Director : Slawomir Grunberg

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 72

Language : English, Polish

To Stay Alive..

סרט תעודי אשר במרכזו סיפורה של לוסי ציטרין - ביאלר (Lucie Cytryn Bialer) ניצולת שואה ילידת פולין. ציטרין - ביאלר, בת למשפחה יהודית-אורתודוכסית ילידת לודז', מספרת בסרט על ילדות מאושרת, חינוך לערכי צדקה ועזרה לעניים ולחולים, הכיבוש הגרמני, הגירוש לגטו, רעב, עבודות כפייה, גירוש לאושוויץ, שחרור ע"י הרוסים, התעללות המשחררים הרוסים, אנשטימיות בפולין לאחר המלחמה, הכחשת השואה היום, השילומים מגרמניה. עדותה של ציטרין - ביאלר מתועדת בצרפת, פולין וישראל. כולל תצלומי משפחה ומסמכים ארכיון.

Director : Piotr Zarębski

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 58

Language : Polish

"Shearit Hapleitah": Holocaust Survivors in Poland and "Habricha"

Documentary film that brings the testimony of Herta Goldman about the return to Poland from the camp, the antisemitism and riots that broke out with the end of the war, the difficulties and return to life, and the testimony of Hasia Borenstein about joining the "Bricha" movement and immigration to Eretz Israel. The film makes use of photographs of groups of children and the meeting with men of the "Bricha"

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

The Phoenix

Documentary film that deals with children of the Shoah. Against the background of pictures, paintings and excerpts from archival films testimonies and memories are brought of survivors who were children in the Shoah.

Director : Yigal Burstein

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 47

Language : Hebrew, Polish

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