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A film portrait of Miriam Akavi, the author of such books as The End of Childhood, My Own Vineyard and Galia and Miklosz. Having miraculously survived the Holocaust in Kraków’s Płaszów Ghetto, she was deported to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and, subsequently, to Bergen-Belsen. In 1946 she managed to reach Israel, with a stopover in Sweden. She became a registered nurse and studied literature and history at the University of Tel Aviv. She worked in the Jewish Agency and served as Israel’s cultural attaché in Budapest and Stockholm. She took up writing in 1975, describing her childhood, the Holocaust and her...

Director : Piotr Weychert

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 63

Language : Polish

Wallenberg

This documentary follows Raoul Wallenberg's then fellow diplomat Per Anger to his visit in the places that were essential to Wallenberg's rescue mission in Budapest: the building of the Swedish Legation in the Buda hills, the International Ghetto, the Józsefváros Railway Station, etc. While recollecting his memories, he also meets with people whose life was saved by Wallenberg's protective passports, who tell the stories of their escape; participates at the unveiling of the memorial plaque on the corner of the Wallenberg Street and visits the Wallenberg Memorial in Pasarét.

Director : János Herskó

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 100

Language : Hungarian