Documentary film about a group of Israeli survivors, natives of Hungary, who were members of the resistance underground and rescue organizations visiting Budapest and telling about their lives during the Nazi occupation. Includes archival films that document Budapest during the war and mainly during the German occupation.
The remarkable, unknown story of Beate Berger, a German Jew who single-handedly and with great resolve and vision rescued over 100
children during the Holocaust, smuggling them from Berlin to Palestine in the 1930s. Berger,
founder of the House of Love Children’s Home (Beith Ahawah Kinderheim) Berlin’s first
home for poor Jewish children, was quick to recognize the Nazi threat and resolved to protect the 120 children under her care on “August Street.” Raising the funds and making all the clandestine arrangements herself, Berger brought groups of children into Palestine from
Germany from...
Among the first movies to deal with the subject of the Holocaust, this documentary about Jewish war orphans opened in New York in September 1948 and has rarely been seen since. According to film critic Jim Hoberman, the film was modeled on Children Must Laugh (Mir Kumen On, 1935), a pre-war Yiddish-language picture about Jewish orphans. The film incorporates newsreels, actual footage of children receiving aid from relief agencies, and a few staged sequences.
Based on testimonies, authentic archival documents and family photos, this documentary tells the story of 52 children of Westerbork transit Camp orphanage. The children, whose identity was unknown, were transported on September 13th, 1944, to Bergen-Belsen and registered in the camp records as 'Gruppe Unbekannte Kinder' (Unknown Children). All but one, they survived and in the summer of 1945 returned to the Netherlands. Since they were only toddlers during that time, they were unable to reconstruct what they had been through. Eight Unknown Children are still looking for information; they describe here their...
Tells the story of 200,000 Polish children stolen by the Nazis during World War II. They were taken to the Reich. The younger children were given over for adoption by Nazi families and the older ones went to Hitler Youth Camps or worked for German families as maids or farmhands. Those who did not fit were sent to concentration camps. The film focuses on the experiences of two cousins who were stolen on the same day. One was 4 years old and the other was 10. They both eventually returned to Poland but the experience marked them in different ways.
סרט תעודי ביתי העוסק בסיפורם של כ- 70 יתומים ששרדו בשואה בזכותה של חסיה בורנשטיין אשר בהיותה בת 25 בלבד אספה אותם ממחבואים שונים בפולין, פתחה בית ילדים וטיפלה בכולם עד עלייתם ארצה. 61 שנים לאחר מכן, אליהו יקיר, אחד הילדים, ארגן מפגש לחסיה הוקרה בקיבוץ עין השופט בהשתתפות כל ה"ילדים" שהגיעו מכל רחבי הארץ. הם מספרים כיצד נתקעו שנה וחצי באירופה לאחר המלחמה וכיצד חסיה החזירה להם את האמונה בחיים ובבני האדם.
(הסרט מתחיל בדקה: 07:50)
Through the story of Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), the famed member of Abba, this documentary tells of the Lebensborn Program, an initiation of Himmler to encourage the creation of a “Master Race”. Within the project, a special homes in Germany and other occupied countries were established with the aim of breeding racially superior children with blond hair, blue or grayish eyes, narrow and long faces and a clear chin - the future generation of pure German Aryans. Lebensborn children were born to SS men united in marriage or not with women who were carefully selected. About 8,000 children were born within the...
דרמה אשר במרכזה סיפורה של נינה, פליט יהודיה מסלוניקי, המנהלת לאחר השואה בית ילדים יתומים בצרפת ומסייעת להם להתמודד עם כאבי פרידה וגעגועים להוריהם ולחייהם לפני המלחמה. שלוות בית הילדים של נינה מופרת עם בואה של קבוצת ילדים ניצולי מחנות ריכוז. הילדים החדשים ממשיכים לנהוג על פי חוקי המחנה שלהם ומתקשים בהיקלטות בסביבה נורמטיבית. סיפור הסרט מבוסס על כמה וכמה בתי ילדים, כמו זה של נינה, שאספו ילדים ניצולים ודאגו לכל מחסורם עד שהועברו לרשות משפחתיהם או בגרו ועזבו לדרכם. הבמאי רישאר דמבו (Richard Dembo) שהקריירה שלו התחלקה בין אופרה לקולנוע (סרטו הראשון `מהלכים מסוכנים` מ- 1984 זכה בפרס האוסקר עבור הסרט הזר הטוב ביותר),...