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Auschwitz - Recollections By Prisoner No.1327 / Auschwitz

Two documentary films: 1: "Auschwitz - Memories of Prisoner Number 1327" . Testimony against the background of a visit to the camp today. 2 "Auschwitz". Description of the history and activity of the camp through photographs, illustrations, documents, paintings, archival films and photographs of the camp today.

Director : Tadeusz Wudzki, Lech Piotrowski

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 70

Language : Polish

Kitty - Return to Auschwitz

This documentary tells the story of English radiographer Kitty Hart's return to the Auschwitz camp. Accompanied by her son, Kitty, who lived in the camp between the ages of 16 and 18, paints a portrait of life in the camp. Kitty-- Return to Auschwitz won several international awards, including the Royal Television Society Documentary Award, the Commonwealth Film and Television Festival Award and the 1985 Tokyo Prize.

Director : Peter Morley

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 70

Language : English

Memory

Jewish-Italians Auschwitz survivors who were in their teens during the Holocaust tell their stories: post war childhood, the change in their lives with the racial legislation in 1938, arrests and deportations of the Jews with the invasion of Germany to Italy in September 1943 and the establishment of the pro-German puppet government located at Salo, escape attempts to Switzerland through Milan, deportations to Auschwitz, the procedure of execution the gas chambers (Shlomo Venezia, former Sonderkommando), the singular bond between Rome's Jewish Ghetto residents, liberation. Narration by Italian actor...

Director : Ruggero Gabbai

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 82

Language : Italian

Auschwitz

Documentary film about the history of Auschwitz-Birkenau through a visit to the camp today, photographs, drawings, documents, archival footage. The film is divided into 5 episodes.

Director : Tadeusz Wudzki

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 57 60

Language : English

The Nazis - Nazi Concentration Camps

Documentary film that presents scenes of liberation from Nazi concentration camps as documented by the film unit of the US Army which accompanied the advancing liberating forces in Germany. At the head of the unit stood American director Lt. Colonel George Stevens.

Director : George Stevens

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 60

Language : English

Stalag 17

ניסיונות הבריחה של שבויי מלחמה אמריקאים ממחנה שבויים גרמני במלחמת העולם ה-2, מעלים חרס כשנראה שכל פעם הגרמנים עולים על התוכניות שלהם ומסכלים את הניסיון. הקבוצה מתחילה לחשוד במרגל בקרבם ומתחיל מחול שדים לחשיפתו, במיוחד כשמגיע קצין בעל ערך שאסור שייפול בידי המודיעין הגרמני. כהרגלו, מגיש וויילדר דרמה משובצת הומור וציניות ומגיש מלחמה שהיא מפגן של אבסורד. וויליאם הולדן, המגלם את דמותו של הסמל ספטון שנחשד ע"י עמיתיו כחפרפרת, זכה בפרס האוסקר על תפקידו זה.

Director : Billy Wilder

Production Year : 1952

Duration : 115

Language : English, German, Italian, Spanish

Memory of the Camps

A segment of the PBS program Frontline that was broadcast in March 1995 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. The film uses film footage cut from the original liberation film footage held in vaults in London largely since the end of the war and documents liberation scenes mainly from Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau. Many of the images are graphic in the extreme. Narration by British actor Trevor Howard.

Director : Sidney Bernstein

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 60

Language : English

Nazi Concentration Camps

Archival films that document scenes of liberation of the Nazi concentration camps as filmed by the film unit of the US Army at the head of which was the Hollywood director George Stevens. The camps documented are Leipzig, Penig, Ohrdruf, Hadamar, Breendonck, Nordhausen, Hannover, Armstadt, Mauthausen, Buchenwald.

Director : George Stevens

Production Year : 1945

Duration : 55

Language : English

Remember Shoah

סרט תעודי העוסק בפעילות חינוך והנצחת השואה בליון, צרפת, עירו של

Director : Sara Milot

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 52

Language : French

Night and Fog

This film is among the first documentary films about the Holocaust and one of the best known in the field of Holocaust cinema. Through an integration of archival films of the Nazi concentration camps and color photographs of the camps and their surroundings around 10 years after the war, the film presents the historical reality of the Final Solution in a direct and revelatory manner. Relative to its time "Night and Fog" was considered innovative in its universal and humanistic approach and it served as a source of inspiration for many documentary films about the Holocaust.

Director : Alain Resnais

Production Year : 1955

Duration : 29

Language : French

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