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Drama inspired by the real exploits of a Polish sewer worker and sometime burglar named Leopold Socha, who helped Jews during the Nazi occupation of Lvov (now Lviv, in Ukraine), provides the latest evidence that the Holocaust movie has become a genre in its own right. Even a true story can follow the familiar conventions of film narrative, and this tale of a righteous gentile selflessly assisting in the survival of a handful of persecuted Jews is no exception.

results.listIds.director : Agnieszka Holland

results.listIds.year : 2011

results.listIds.duration : 145

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Twist of Fate

A two-part miniseries about an SS-Lieutenant Colonel Helmut Von Schreader who, in the waning days of the Third Reich, undergoes plastic surgery and becomes a concentration-camp prisoner to avoid prosecution as a war criminal. In an ironic twist of fate, he is shipped to the wrong camp and forced to live with those he has victimized, where he learns to respect them. After the war, he becomes involved in the founding of Israel, marries and fathers a son, who eventually stumbles across his identity 20 years later.

results.listIds.director : Ian Sharp

results.listIds.year : 1989

results.listIds.duration : 177

results.listIds.lang : English

Going and Coming Back

A feature film. This movie tells the story of the members of a Jewish family who flee the Germans and end up hiding in the country . Unfortunately, the Gestapo finds them and they are sent to a concentration camp. The film then leaps ahead to 1985 where the daughter of the couple begins believing that her dead brother has been reincarnated as a famed pianist. She feels this is so because both of them love Rachmaninoff's "Concerto No. 2".

results.listIds.director : Claude Lelouch

results.listIds.year : 1985

results.listIds.duration : 114

results.listIds.lang : French

Lerner's Revenge

Summary: This documentary accompanies Ronny Lerner, an Israeli businessman, on his journey to, and in Poland in order to try and understand what happened to his family in the Holocaust. Lerner discovers that after the family had run away from their village in Poland, his father, Yitzhak Lerner, lived in Warsaw with two women under assumed identities. At the end of the war Lerner senior returned to the place where his family was murdered in order to get revenge. Now Lerner the son arrives there in order to see for himself where everything happened and he even manages to get to the last murderer. The...

results.listIds.director : Gilad Tokatly

results.listIds.year : 2006

results.listIds.duration : 60

results.listIds.lang : English, Hebrew, Polish

The Secret

Documentary film that presents the stories of Poles in Warsaw today who reveal that they are of Jewish origin.

results.listIds.director : רונית קרצנר

results.listIds.year : 2000

results.listIds.duration : 56

results.listIds.lang : English, Polish

Andreoni family's story

A short documentary. The Valabrega couple, musicians from Bologna, along with their two daughters, aged 9 and 1, hid for a year in 1943 in the house of the Andreoni family, in a small village in the Apennines of Modena. They were hosted by Gildo, a veteran of the Russian campaign, his sister Rosa, and their mother Elisa.

results.listIds.director : Valentina Arena

results.listIds.year : 2021

results.listIds.duration : 23

results.listIds.lang : Italian

Pellegrino Riccardi's story

A short documentary. The Vigevani family from Parma managed to escape to Switzerland in 1943 thanks to the help of their friend Pellegrino Riccardi, magistrate in Fornovo di Taro, sharecropper Arnaldo Frigeri and nanny Tina Baldi, who for over a year kept the youngest son of the Vigevani family with her, pretending to be a single mother.

results.listIds.director : Valentina Arena

results.listIds.year : 2019

results.listIds.duration : 13

results.listIds.lang : Italian

Les enfants caches en Belgique pendant la Shoah - les porteurs de bagages

סרט תיעודי קצר. אודות האנשים שדאגו למסתור לילדים יהודים בבלגיה במהלך השואה.

results.listIds.director : Nicole Bard

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 30

results.listIds.lang : French

Les enfants caches en Belgique pendant la Shoah

הקלטת פאנל. מתוך ועידה שהתקיימה בירושלים בשנת 2007

results.listIds.director : Nicole Bard

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 30

results.listIds.lang : French

Faith, The story of Jack Aldewereld

A short documentary. Jack Aldewereld was born as a Jewish boy during World War II. When he was six months old, he had to go into hiding. He ended up in Brunssum, in Limburg: a mining town where more than 250 Jewish children were rescued during the war. The movie takes you goes to the town together with Chief Rabbi Jacobs to investigate Brunssum's resistance history. What is the story of Jack Aldewereld? How did he discover his real identity? And what can young people today learn from his story?

results.listIds.director : Alexander Blom, Paola Van Oordt, Sara Van Oordt

results.listIds.year : 2022

results.listIds.duration : 21

results.listIds.lang : Dutch, English

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