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A Day In The Warsaw Ghetto - A Birthday Trip In Hell

A documentary film. At the outbreak of World War II, 380,000 Jews lived in Warsaw, about a third of the city's population. In the fall of 1940, the the Germans transferred them to the ghetto. On November 19, 1982, Günther Schwarberg, the editor of the German magazine "Der Stern" was invited to the home of an 84-year-old man, from whom he received a yellowing envelope with 140 negatives of photos he had taken 41 years earlier, during World War II. This man was Heinz Jost. who took pictures at the ghetto . The film combines archive footage, photographs by Joest, and excerpts from the diaries of Emmanuel...

Director : Jack Kuper

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 30

Language : English

The Nazis - Nazi War Crimes, Babi Yar - Lessons of History

סרט סובייטי על באבי יאר (Babi Yar), גיא ההריגה של יהודי קייב (Kiev), צוענים ושבויי מלחמה סובייטים.

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 50

Language : English

Life

This is a true story of Izak Goldfinger. In 1939 the Second World War is raging and Hitler is terrorizing Europe with war and ethnic cleansing. Izak Goldfinger, a 14-year-old boy from Poland, suffers the gravest penalty for his ‘crime: He is born a Jew… In the following 6 years he survives 11 Nazi labor and concentration camps. At the end of the war his body barely alive, is found in an open mass grave on top of a pile of corpses. Minutes from death, Izak fights for life.

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 54

Language : Polish

Compassion

סרט על משפחת שקובניק ב Cernauti

Director : Boris Dratva

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 76

Language : Russian, Ukrainian

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

The Eagle's Nest - Europe Falls Before the Reich

This is a documentary series that was produced for Dutch Television. By focusing on Hitler’s retreat, The Eagle’s Nest – Berghof, the series shows a special perspective of Nazi Germany. The Eagle’s Nest is a luxurious house in the mountains in Obersalzberg, Bavaria. Hitler entertained relatives, party leaders and others. Speer von Ribbentrop and Bormann built houses in the area close to the Fuhrer. Four episodes of the series examines the highs and lows of the Third Reich from the inner circle of the Eagle’s Nest as a central command center and private home of Hitler. Original footage is combined with...

Production Year : 1987

Duration : 50

Language : English

The Third Reich in Color 1937-1945

Collection of archival films in color that document the Third Reich in the years 1937 - 1945. Documents scenes of civilian life in Germany before the war and during the war, social events, official visits, senior figures in the Nazi leadership hierarchy.*

Director : Michael Kloft

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 100

Language : English

Opening The Gates Of Hell - American Liberators Of The Nazi Concentration Camps

Four decades after the liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps, former American soldiers testify of what they saw. The testimonies are presented on the background of archival footages.

Director : Timothy Roberts

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 45

Language : English

Zachor: We Were There - Jewish Liberators of the Nazi Concentration Camps

עדויות מאת לשעבר חיילים יהודים בכוחות השחרור של בנות הברית.

Director : Paul Hansen

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 34

Language : English

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

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