A documentary . This film is about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.
Director : Yael Hersonski
Production Year : 2010
Duration : 89
Language : English, German, Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish
פרק זה בסדרת התעודית-גניאולוגית של ה- BBC עוסק במסע חיפוש השורשים של דיויד בדיאל, קומיקאי, סופר ומגיש טלוויזיה יהודי-בריטי. בלדיאל כבר ידע שמשפחת אימו נמלטה מרדיפת הנאצים לבריטניה וחיפוש שנעשה אחר דודו ארנו הוליד את ההשערה כי ארנו נספה בגטו וורשה. הפעם, מכל מקום, החיפוש אחר שורשי משפחתו מצד אביו נעשה באופן מדוייק יותר הודות לתיעוד מפקד העם של 1901 בארכיון הלאומי הבריטי; דיויד מגלה שמשפחת אביו הגיע לבריטניה מפרל, לטביה, שהייתה בכבר חלק מן האימפריה הרוסית.
Using newly-released files, concealed by the KGB in Moscow and held in archives for nearly 50 years, the programme exposes the events behind the planning and building of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Professor Gerald Fleming, a researcher into Nazi war crimes and architect Robert van Pelt, investigate these files and reveal evidence which shows how German civilian engineers and Bauhaus-trained architects deliberately colluded with the SS to plan the genocide.
A documentary about historian and public figure scholar Emanuel Ringelblum (1900-1944) and the "Oneg Shabbat" underground archive he managed in Warsaw ghetto, which documented the lives of the Jews in the ghetto, the education, the political press, evening courses for higher education, cultural evenings, music and theater, and the hope of future life. The archive was founded in May 1940 in collaboration with people from all walks of life in Polish and Yiddish. The film includes photographs, documents, drawings, newspaper clippings and read testimonies from the Ringelblum archive as well as other materials...
CHRONOS Film Gmbh was founded by Jost von Moor and Bengt von zur Muhlen in Berlin 1961. It is the largest private contemporary historical archive in the world. Chronos emphasizes on issues related to the Holocaust, resistance, Berlin, Germany (also DDR) and the Soviet Union. This short public relation film presents the granting of honoree price "Junger Loewe" to Bengdt and Irmgard von zur Muhlen on the June 23rd 2000 in Munich.
This film is based on a unique collection of photographs from the archives of the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All of the photographs depict Jewish families from Bedzin, a small town near Katowich. Most of the 27,000 Jews that comprised the population of Bedzin perished in Auschwitz. The films presents the few survivors of this once vibrant Jewish town - Jewish youths from 60 years ago. They are some eighty years old and all live in Israel. They share their story of survival as well as their survivor's guilt.