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Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2003 - Denise Siekierski

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2003. Torchlighter Denise Siekierski. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

אנה הקטנה - זכרונות ממחנה

It a play based on real life of Anne Frank. She painfully recounts her memories about capture in the Attic, from the time when the SS came over her until her death in Bergen Belsen.

Director : Jane Celeste Guberfain, Gedivan De Albuquerque, Gláucia Flores Y Reyes

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 57

Language : German, Portuguese

A Life for a Life

This documentary "A Life for a life," tells the stories of Poles who saved Jews during the Second World War - hide, feed, protect, but as such risked the death of the whole family. The document was carried out by cities, towns and villages Polish, in which the tragic events was happened. The protagonists are the witnesses of those events, but often their children and grandchildren.

Director : Arkadiusz Gołębiewski

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 33

Language : Polish

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".

Director : Claude Lelouch

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 114

Language : French

The Price of Life

Tragical lots of Joseph and Wiktoria Ulm family from Markowa. During occupation they were hiding in their house eight Jews. On 24-th of March Germans murdered the Jews and they also bestially killed Joseph , Wiktoria and their six children

Director : Andrzej Baczyński

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 45

Language : Polish

Lift Your Vision Higher: Laura Rusk - Holocaust Survivor, Israel Youth Day, Olten, Switzerland, 27.08.2005

Lecture by Laura Rusk, a Holocaust survivor from Katowice, Poland. Rusk describes her memories of the Nazi occupation, the yellow star, arrest, expulsion to Landeshut (labour camp in Germany) where she worked making thread from flax, expulsion to Peterswaldau in Lower Silesia, where she worked at a munitions factory, assembling fuses for bombs; escape with a Czech prisoner and journey by train from place to place and town to town until they arrived at Neisse, capture, sent to Aushwitz, tattoed number 79564 on left arm, worked without rest clearing away heavy stones, hunger, secretarial work in the camp office,...

Director : Lars Müller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 26

Language : German

חיבוק מאוחר

Summary: This documentary film depicts the journey of Holocaust survivor Esther Rotter from Israel to Poland where she was born, when in the background is the diary that she wrote when she was 14 years old. When Ester was nine-year-old she was given by her parents to a Ukrainian peasant family that hid her for two years during the war. After the war her parents' friends collected her from the villagers' home. She made aliyah and came to Kibbutz Merhavia. After sixty years Esther returns to Poland and meets her saviors. She finds out that they have been trying to find her all these years. Four of them...

Director : Yehudit Shenhar, Aliza Eshed

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 29

Language : Hebrew, Polish

The road to Baby Yar

A documentary film. With the invasion of Germany into the territory of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, a new stage in the history of the Shoah began, characterized by the massacres of Jews, exemplified in Ukraine. The film shows the events of the first 100 days of the occupation of Ukraine, during which the Nazis, with the participation of local residents, began killing Jews directly in their places of residence, as well as the evolution of the mass murder system in hundreds of killing sites, symbolized by Babi Yar. Conversations with historians, local residents – to those events and Jewish survivors of...

Director : Boris Maftsir

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 107

Language : English, Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian

Jews of Berlin 1938-1945

באמצעות עדויות ניצולים וסקירת סיפוריהם של אינדיבידואלים שונים, הסרט מתאר את הרדיפה אחר יהודי Berlin והיבטים שונים בחייהם בזמן המלחמה; טלאי צהוב; קיום בלתי חוקי; בריחה; מחבוא; סכנה; הפצצות אויר; אוכל; שחרור; הגירה; קינדר טרנספורט; תפיסה; גירושים; SS; מלשינים; גסטאפו; המלשינה היהודייה הידועה Stella Kubler; שיתוף פעולה; Archive Footage: סימון חלונות ראווה יהודים; מראה רחוב ב- Berlin; בית קפה; חצר בבניין מגורים; הפצצות אויר; הריסות; פסל החירות; ילדי קינדר טרנספורט; מהגרים יורדים מאונייה; יהודים עם טלאי צהוב; שיירת מגורשים; יהודים עולים על קרון רכבת אטום; רכבת נוסעת;

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 35

The Hidden Jews Of Berlin

Documentary film that deals with the personal stories of Jews who survived the war in hiding places or through false identities in the capital of the Third Reich, Berlin. Includes archival films and testimonies.

Director : Clara Glynn

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 50

Language : English

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