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A Town With Amnesia - The Story of Ptzeworsk, Poland.

Story of the town of Ptzeworsk, in Galicia, Poland, told via archival films and photographs.

Director : Janne Giese

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 45

Language : Danish, Hebrew, Polish

התוכנית טלויזיה של רשות השידור בהנחייתו של שלומי גולדברג, שתביא את סיפורה של הקהילה היהודית השנייה בגודלה בפולין אז והיום. בין המשתתפים: ד"ר מיכל אונגר ממוזיאון "יד ושם", אברהם זליג, מניצולי העיר, ואורי ויזנברג, דור שני ליהודי לודג'.

Director : Zvi Salfon

Production Year : 2006

Language : English, Hebrew

Requiem for 500, 000

Director : Waclaw Kazmierczak, Jerzy Bossak

Production Year : 1963

Duration : 54

Language : German

Free Fall, Private Hungary, part 10

Episode 10 in director’s Péter Forgács series "Private Hungary" which is based on a home footage that document the daily life of the Hungarians, before, during and after WWII. This experimental film is based on home movies, documenting the family life of Hungarian Jews from 1937 until the German occupation in 1944. This is a joint effort of the film director Péter Forgács and György Pető, an amateur photographer whose dozens of reels of film were made by Forgacs into a cinematic testimony about Hungary during the war and the German occupation.

Director : Peter Forgacs

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 71 75

Language : English, Hungarian

Little Town - Ghetto Kutno

Documentary film that deals with Kutno, a city in the Lodz district in central Poland. Former residents of the city watch archival films that document the city in September 1939 and June 1940 and tell their stories.

Director : Agnieszka Arnold

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 29

Language : Polish

My War

"Mein Krieg" is a singular documentary view of World War 2 through the eyes of six German soldiers carrying home-movie cameras through training, combat and a devastated Belorussia. These six Wehrmacht infantrymen created documents of the war and captured the unique moments of humanity in the harsh reality of the war. This footage, much of it in color, offers a soldier's eye view of the German army day-to-day activities as it advanced into USSR during 1942. The only narrative voices are those of the soldiers who, fifty years later, recall the transgressions of their youth, recount the social pressures that...

Director : Harriet Eder, Thomas Kufus

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 90

Language : English, German

Forgotten Transports to Estonia

Documentary about the lesser known transports of the Czechoslovakian Jews to the concentration camps in Estonia. The testimonies of the survivors are complemented by the unique archive material.

Director : Lukáš Přibyl

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 85

Language : Czech, Russian

Paint What You Rememeber

Mayer was born in 1916 in a small shtetl: Opatow. He completed seven grades of Polish school and immigrated to Canada at age 17. After he retired over 20 years ago, his daughter Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, began urging him to tell and paint whatever he could remember of his childhood. The images yielded by his memory exceeded everyone’s expectations, probably including his own. Mayer’s photographic memory allowed him to meticulously recreate Jewish life in Opatow, as it was before the war.

Director : Sławomir Grunberg

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 30

Language : English, Polish

The Lost Mediene

Film about provincial Jewish life before World War II, when in the farthest corners of the country, Jewish communities cultivated their unique way of life. On the basis of unique archival footage, the film revives the atmosphere of this vanished world.

Director : Kiki Amsberg

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 60

Language : Dutch

The Last Stage

Film drama, depicting Auschwitz, in an almost documentary manner, centers around the women's camp and the conditions under which they lived. Martha Weiss, a Jew, is sent to Auschwitz with her family. On the first day of their arrival Martha is, by a coincidence, chosen as an interpreter, but her entire family is killed. Martha, who sees the brutal crimes, the sham of clean-up for the Red Cross, tries to escape under orders from the underground. Captured, she is tortured and dies as Allied planes fly overhead. The two Polish women who wrote and directed this film were themselves prisoners in the Birkenau women's...

Director : Wanda Jakubowska

Production Year : 1948

Duration : 99

Language : German, Polish, Russian

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