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This film combines the documentary genre with the cabaret. Only 25 years after Nazi Germany carried out the Holocaust on Polish soil, 30,000 Jews, including intelligentsia, scientists, artists and exceptional writers, were expelled from Poland. In the anti-Semitic campaign sponsored by the state in March 1968 in Communist Poland, the last Holocaust survivors - in the pre-war country of more than three million Jewish citizens - were declared "Foreigners," "Zionists," "Cosmopolites," and "Enemies of the Polish People's Republic", and forced to leave the country. Many of the emmigrants found shelter in Scandinavia,...

Director : ניר דויד זץ, Zuzanna Solakiewicz

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 49

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Lake 68

In the early 1960s the Brodzkys, the Baumritters and the Burgins, three families of ideological communists of mostly Jewish origin who remained friends, decided to buy a plot of land at Dłużek lake on the outskirts of Mazury, Poland’s lake district, to build summer homes. But, a wave of anti-Semitism forced the members of the Polish communist elite, who barely considered themselves Jewish, to emigrate from Poland in 1968. Most went to Sweden, Denmark, France, U.S. and Canada, and some to Israel - but before they left, they spent their last weeks crowded into the lake house The documentary was made by Stanisław...

Director : Irit Shamgar

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 53

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Pogrom is Murder? Kielce 4.07.1946

A documentary depicting the murder of Jews in Kielce in 1946, based on the latest studies of Polish Institute Instytut Pamięci Narodowej folk-IPN, interviews with historians and experts, photographs and archival documents and maps of the city.

Director : Artur Janicki

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 32

Language : Polish

About Shoah - Liliana Segre: A Witness

This documentary film depicting Ilse Stein who was deported to the Minsk Ghetto at the age of 18, and was saved by a German Officer, Willi Schulz, who fell in love with her. Die Jüdin und der Hauptmann makes use of testimonies, archival photographs and footage, as well as documentation of the first official reunion of 200 survivors of the Minsk Ghetto fifty years later.

Director : Paolo Castelli, Patrizia Della Porta

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 60

Language : Italian

The Short Life of Anne Frank

Documentary film about the life of the Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov. Hitler gave a special order to kill him, Stalin killed his brother and kept him guessing about his own fate. This man is a prominent Soviet cartoonist and propaganda, legendary for his political caricatures, which helped to stoke morale among Russian troops during World War II, and who was targeting American capitalism during the Cold War era. He produced more than 70 000 drawings during 108 years of his life.

Director : Semyon Pinkhasov

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 55

Language : English, Russian

The Jewess and the Captain - A Minsk Love Story

Documentary film that tells the extraordinary story of Ilse Stein, a German Jewish woman who was a prisoner in the Minsk ghetto whose life was saved by virtue of a German officer Willi Schulz who fell in love with her. Includes archival films, testimonies, an interview with Stein herself and documentation of the first official meeting of 200 survivors of the Minsk ghetto after 50 years.

Director : Ulf Von Machow

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 60

Language : English, Russian

קרוב יותר לירח

A feature film. Bucharest 1959. A spectacular Bank heist has the country in an uproar. In post-war Communist Romania it is an unimaginable slap in the face to the iron fisted authorities. Four men and a woman are arrested, tried, convicted and while waiting for their execution, are forced to star in a propaganda film about the crime. All five protagonists were heroes of the resistance during the Second World War and highly placed members of Romanian society. They clearly knew they would be caught and executed. Based on the true story ofIoanid Group (Banda Ioanid). The Film was shown in Jewish film...

Director : Nae Caranfil

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 112

Language : English

Accused of Planning the World War III

A documentary portrait of Karol Noskovič, the activist of the Slovak Confederation of the Political Prisoners, who was in his youth unfairly accused and imprisoned.

Director : Juraj Brocko

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 27

Language : Czech

900 ימים

A documentary film. The Blockade of Leningrad during World War II. The film presents an emotional picture of the struggle of some survivors, whose personal memories tend to be overshadowed by the heroic myth held up by the authorities. That myth is in painful contrast with the horrific truth they were forbidden to mention all these years.

Director : Jessica Gorter

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 77

Language : Russian