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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

A Matter of Time - Common Fate, Chapter 2

This 2-part documentary film tells the little-known story of the Jewish communities of North Africa (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco) during World War Two, revealing how, had fate not intervened, it was only “a matter of time” until they would share the fate of their fellow Jews in Europe. Through archival and new footage and stills, extensive interviews with surviving eyewitnesses and historians, as well as computer-generated animation, the film depicts Jewish life in North Africa and describes the evidence of plans by German and Italian occupiers to carry out “the final solution” far from the shores...

Director : סרז' אנקרי

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 55

Language : Hebrew

The Lost Children of Berlin

סרט תעודי המנציח מפגש מחודש של לשעבר תלמידי בית הספר Grosse Hamburger Strasse, בית ספר יהודי בלב ברלין (Berlin) אשר נסגר ב-1942 ע"י הנאצים וכיום פועל שוב. כמה מתלמידי בית הספר מספרים על זכרונותיהם כילדים ובני נוער יהודים בברלין של גרמניה הנאצית. כולל גם סרטי ארכיון.*

Director : Elizabeth Mclntyre

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 53

Language : English

My Lodz No Longer Exists - The story of Yosef Neuhaus

Summary: Documentary film. This film chronicles the Jewish community in Lodz, Poland, through the story of Yosef Neuhaus. Yosef was born in Lodz in 1924, to Tova-Yona and Zvi Hirsch. In May 1940, he was forced to enter the Lodz ghetto along with his parents and younger sister Zofia, where they lived for four years until their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau. All of Yosef’s family members were murdered in that camp. Yosef survived and was then imprisoned in several other camps. In...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 41

Language : Hebrew

Lift Your Vision Higher: Laura Rusk - Holocaust Survivor, Israel Youth Day, Olten, Switzerland, 27.08.2005

Lecture by Laura Rusk, a Holocaust survivor from Katowice, Poland. Rusk describes her memories of the Nazi occupation, the yellow star, arrest, expulsion to Landeshut (labour camp in Germany) where she worked making thread from flax, expulsion to Peterswaldau in Lower Silesia, where she worked at a munitions factory, assembling fuses for bombs; escape with a Czech prisoner and journey by train from place to place and town to town until they arrived at Neisse, capture, sent to Aushwitz, tattoed number 79564 on left arm, worked without rest clearing away heavy stones, hunger, secretarial work in the camp office,...

Director : Lars Müller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 26

Language : German

Messages for a More Tolerant Future

This documentary was produced by the San Paulo Jewish Cultural Center in Brazil. It features Holocaust survivors’ testimonies about their lives in Germany before the Second World War, “Crystal Night”, yellow patches, ghettos, hunger, poverty, selection, eviction, camps, rescue, liberation, migration. Includes archival photographs, map drawings, newspaper articles and various documents.

Director : Anita Pinkuss, Paulo Baroukh

Production Year : 2006

Language : Portuguese

Map of the Ghettos - Riga

This documentary film is making use of archival material of Ghetto Riga

Director : Liran Atzmor

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 1

Language : Silent Film

Map of the Ghettos - Bedzin

This documentary film is making use of archival material of Ghetto Bedzin

Director : Liran Atzmor

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 2

Language : Silent Film

Map of the Ghettos - Brzeziny

This documentary film is making use of archival material of Ghetto Brzeziny

Director : Liran Atzmor

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 4

Language : Silent Film

Holland- Jewish Life in the Ghetto

Jewish life in Holland from the eve of the Second World War, through the German Occupation, up until the deportation to Westerbork, portrayed in this documentary compiled of archival footage, still photographs and personal testimonies.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

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