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סרט המתאר את המסע שלקבוצה של יהודים משיחיים מאוקראינה לפולין. הקבוצה מארגנת מפגשי תפילה עבור הפעם הפולני ובנסיון לחזק את הקשר בין העם היהודי לפולנים. לחלק מחברי הקבוצה יש קשר משפחתי ליהדות, וחלקם מאמינים שתפקידם הוא לגשר בין הנוצרים ליהודים. בסרט משולבים חומרי ארכיון מתחילת המאה הקודמת ומתקופת המלחמה (מפולין וממקומות שונים) ותצלומי הארכיון.

Director : Eva Gaulis-Bajerska

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 61

Language : Polish, Russian

From Galicia to Aargau - Trails of a Jewish European in the 20th century

Over 60 years after World War II Jerzy Czarnecki, a retired nuclear technologist, travels to his native town Mosty Wielkie (now in the Ukraine). The ﬁlm relates his escape from the Nazi and change of name, forced labor in Germany, a new life in Poland after the War and ﬁnally, after a renewed outburst of open anti-Semitism in Poland, his emigration to Switzerland.

Director : Peter Scheiner, Susanne Scheiner

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 45

Language : German, Ukrainian

The road to Baby Yar

A documentary film. With the invasion of Germany into the territory of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, a new stage in the history of the Shoah began, characterized by the massacres of Jews, exemplified in Ukraine. The film shows the events of the first 100 days of the occupation of Ukraine, during which the Nazis, with the participation of local residents, began killing Jews directly in their places of residence, as well as the evolution of the mass murder system in hundreds of killing sites, symbolized by Babi Yar. Conversations with historians, local residents – to those events and Jewish survivors of...

Director : Boris Maftsir

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 107

Language : English, Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian

Baltic Truth

A documentary film. It exposes the events of the first months of World War Two in the Baltic States and how almost the entire Jewish community of the occupied Baltic Nations was eliminated by face to face executions, one bullet at a time with assistance of local population, before the Final Solution, before Auschwitz, and before gas chambers.

Director : Andrejs Hramcovs

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 90

Language : English

From Galicia to Aargau - Epilogue

Shortly after the film "From Galicia to Aargau was finished, Jerzy donated a memorial to remember the Jewish people of Mosty Wielkie who under Nazi rule have been murdered or sent to extermination camps. The memorial site was placed in the forest where people were killed. The Epilogue shows the opening ceremony for the memorial, representatives of the cities's governement and of the churches took part as well as inhabitants. Soon after, in December 2007, Jerzy died. 2011 the memorial was destroyed; it is not known who done it and the Epiloge also documents how the people of Mosty deal with the matter.

Director : Peter Scheiner, Susanne Scheiner

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 16

Language : Ukrainian