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Why Us? Short Version, Featuring Bernard Aptaker

Based on archival footage and scenes from documentary films, this documentary explores the history of Nazi Germany, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. It also tells the story of Bernard Aptaker, survivor of 4 Nazi camps who lost his mother and young brother at the Holocaust. Aptaker, who was liberated by American Army in Spring 45 with his father and brother, immigrated after the war to the US and became a successful real-estate developer and businessman in Houston, Texas. He is a supporter of many philanthropic causes and recently became a Benefactor of Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 51

Language : English

Death Marches

Documentary film that brings the testimony of two survivors of the forced death march of a group of women in January 1945 that continued 106 days from Schlesiersee in Germany to Volary, Czechoslovakia.

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 4

Language : Hebrew

Mosek Madowicz - A Single Destiny

This is a documentary about the death of Mesek Madowicz. It was done as a school project by a German girl Elisabeth Hinterstoecker. She researched the history of a grave at the cemetary of her small Bavarian village. It was the burial site of an unknown concentration camp prisoner. A farmer found the body shortly after the end of the war in a nearby forest. Identification was impossible, so the deceased became known as the unknown prisoner from Dachau. Elisabeth Hinterstoecker found out about the name, the family history and the last days on a deathmarch from Dachau of Mosek Madowicz. He died after the...

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 30

Language : German

Liberated on April 1945 - 4 Years in German Captivity

Documentary film produced by Israel Television, Channel 1about the story of Israeli soldiers who assisted the British Army during the Second World War and were captured by the Germans.

Director : Yehuda Kaveh

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 50

Language : Hebrew

Survival of a Spirit

סרט תיעודי משולב אנימציה.

Director : Patricia Bury Salier

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 51

Language : English

Yes Forgive - Nevere Forget - Death Marches 1945, Part 4

When the war ended in 1945, the concentration camps were in the then third Rich and vacated in occupied countries.The prisoners were sent to so-called "death marches". The marches of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp are subject of this film's. Tracking shots along the former path of the current landscape of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, recall the events at that time. Live in different places along the route Today witnesses. 30 witnesses from the population and 8 survivors of the death march to speak. This part As the fighting forces of the enemy troops had occupied in April 1945, very...

Director : Hans-Joachim Attig

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 72

Language : German

Yes Forgive - Nevere Forget - Death Marches 1945, Part 3

When the war ended in 1945, the concentration camps were in the then third Rich and vacated in occupied countries.The prisoners were sent to so-called "death marches". The marches of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp are subject of this film's. Tracking shots along the former path of the current landscape of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, recall the events at that time. Live in different places along the route Today witnesses. 30 witnesses from the population and 8 survivors of the death march to speak. This part At various distances from the direction of the south, the columns of...

Director : Hans-Joachim Attig

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 45

Language : German

Yes Forgive - Nevere Forget - Death Marches 1945, Part 2

When the war ended in 1945, the concentration camps were in the then third Rich and vacated in occupied countries.The prisoners were sent to so-called "death marches". The marches of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp are subject of this film's. Tracking shots along the former path of the current landscape of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, recall the events at that time. Live in different places along the route Today witnesses. 30 witnesses from the population and 8 survivors of the death march to speak.In this episode: prisoners from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp were at different...

Director : Hans-Joachim Attig

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 50

Language : German

Yes Forgive - Nevere Forget - Death Marches 1945, Part 1

When the war ended in 1945, the concentration camps were in the then third Rich and vacated in occupied countries.The prisoners were sent to so-called "death marches". The marches of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp are subject of this film's. Tracking shots along the former path of the current landscape of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, recall the events at that time. Live in different places along the route Today witnesses. 30 witnesses from the population and 8 survivors of the death march to speak. This part shows the history of the death marches and the first 50 kilometers of the...

Director : Hans-Joachim Attig

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 45

Language : German