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This documentary film brings the story of Anna Maria Habermann Milan, the 1990s. Anna's mother dies. Looking through the legacy of her parents, she finds some official documents and letters. Reading them, she learns at the age of 50, that her father had another family at a Southern Hungarian town, Baja, that she had a brother, and that her father was a baptized Jew. From the letters it turns out that her father wanted to take the little boy, Tamás to Italy, but there were always obstacles in the way – and then came 1944. The boy was deported. Anna Maria travelled to Hungary to find her roots.

Director : Róbert Kollár, Sándor Lázs

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 53

Language : Hungarian, Italian

Hearts Divided - Baptism and the Jews in the Third Reich

In 1933 Berlin Bishop Joachim Hossenfelder proclaimed the popular, pro-Nazi “German Christian” movement the “Storm Troopers of Christ.” Hossenfelder led the early phase of a movement that still echoes through the church today, even though the world has tried to forget.

Director : Steven D. Martin

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 59

Language : English

הטבלה

סרט תיעודי קצר המספר את סיפור הצלתו של שאול גטניו/Shaul Gattenyo בידי אלבנים בחבל קוסובו במלחמת העולם השנייה. הוריו נרצחו בטרבלינקה. שאול, יליד 1940 גודל על ידי האומנת שלו, חסידת אומות העולם Zora Piculin. השניים הוסתרו יחד עם יהודים נוספים על ידי הבישוף של מקדוניה Cekada, אף הוא חסיד אומות העולם, בכפר המקדוני Letnica / לאחר המלחמה, כאשר לו כי זורה אינה אמו אלא האומנת, הוא אומץ על ידי אחות סבתו, אסתר ביטי ובעלה חנניה, ובני הזוג עם ילדתם הבוגרת ועם שאול, עלו לישראל.

Director : Mumin Jashari

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 36

Language : Albanian, English, Hebrew

A ROSE IN WINTER

A feature flim. It recounts the extraordinary life of Edith Stein. Born Jewish, she demonstrated uncompromising courage as an outspoken advocate for equity in the Woman's Right Movement at the onset of National Socialism in Germany, and though her actions, as a Carmelite Nun, challenging the very foundation of the Holy See to stand up against the Holocaust: a path which would lead to her martyrdom in Auschwitz.

Director : Joshua Sinclair

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 137

Language : English

נולדה פעם שניה

סרט תיעודי המביא את סיפור חייה של Maria Butkiewicz אשר גדלה וחונכה כקתולית אדוקה, ובבגרותה גילתה כי היא היתה ילדה יהודייה שהוטבלה לנצרות. הוריה וכל משפחתה נרצחו בגיא ההריגה בפונאר. מריה ניצלה על ידי האומנת שלה, Stanislawa Butkiewicz . מריה השיגה עבור האומנת, לאחר מותה, את אות 'חסידי אומות העולם'.

Director : Ryszard Nekanda-Trepka

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 43

Language : Polish

BABY FROM THE PACKAGE

A short documentary film by Jakov Sedlar. The film tells the story of Dina Büchler, who eas only a baby when her parents were deported to cocentration camps in Croatia. Dina was sved by her mother's prewar freind .Djina Gertruda Beritić, and her son Tihomil. On July 13, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Djina Gertruda Beritić and her son, Tihomil Beritić, as Righteous Among the Nations

Director : Jakov Sedlar

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 32

Language : Croatian, English

הבנות של שמעון

After finding a letter in a book telling about two Jewish sisters who have lived as Christians for more than seventy years, Michael sets out to find them and make them a once-in-a-lifetime offer.

Director : Eli Gershzon

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 60

Language : English

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2011 - Dina Büchler-Chen

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2011 "Fragments of Memory - The Faces Behind the Documents, Artifacts and Photographs". Torchlighter Dina Büchler-Chen. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2005 - Dr. Robert M. Finaly

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2005 "The Anguish of Liberation and the Return to Life". Torchlighter Dr. Robert M. Finaly. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew