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Story of Shoah survivor Thomas Geve, who was sent as a child from Berlin to Auschwitz and liberated at age 13 in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Director : Wilhelm Roesing

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 35

Language : German

"The Jews are Gone" - The Dresden Hellerberg Camp

Documentary film dealing with The Dresden Hellerberg Camp. Includes testinomies, photographs and archival footage.

Director : Ulrich Teschner, Ernst Hirsch

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 68

Language : German

I Am von Höfler - Variation on Werther, Part 1

Family saga, which began 250 years ago. The family belonged to the aristocracy and owned a leather factory in the city of Pecs in southern Hungary. Tibor Höfler, the main protagonist, documented the history of the family throughout the 20th century, and it is his films and letters, as well as additional archival material, that give us a look at the story of his life and that of his family—his relations with women, his complex relationship with his son, born out of wedlock, his life during World War II when many of his family members were sent to ghettos and concentration camps, the communist era during which the...

Director : Peter Forgacs

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 80

Language : English, Hungarian

Rivka’s Tribe

Documentary film. During the evening of Roshashana, the Jewish new year, six brothers and sisters remember their childhood spent during the Second World War in France. Brought up in a Jewish family of Polish immigrants, the eldest brother, Jack, is fifteen when his father is arrested by the French police and sent to Auschwitz. From then on, he has only one goal: save his entire family from death. This film tells the story of survival of a family united by mutual love and faith. the film includes the testimony of the famiily members, personal and national archive films, docuemnts and photogrphas

Director : Sabrina Van Tassel

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 58

Language : French

Requiem for 500, 000

Director : Waclaw Kazmierczak, Jerzy Bossak

Production Year : 1963

Duration : 54

Language : German

The Secret Files of Nazism - Eichmann: The Nazi fugitive

This is a firsthand account by the Mossad agents who planned and implemented the covert "Operation Eichmann." Shot on location in Austria, Germany, Italy, Argentina, England and Israel, the film uses a mixture of documentary techniques and dramatic reenactments to retrace Eichmann's, a central figure in organizing the "Final Solution", escape route from Germany after World War II.

Director : Dan Setton

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 91

Language : French

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

People's Century - Master Race (1933), Total War (1939), Brave new World (1945)

Archival series of 26 programmes looking at the past 100 years. Three chapetrs are relevant: 1933- In this series looking at momemtous events in the twentieth century through the eyes of ordinary people, this programme looks at the rise of Hitler and its consequences. 1939- Civilians recount their experiences of the Second World War. 1945- Brave New World: Charts the meeting of American and Soviet armies on the banks of the Elbe in 1945. American and Russian soldiers talk about that experience. The programme covers the period from victory in the Second World War through the rise of the Cold War to the building...

Director : Jonathan Lewis, John Bridcut

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 107

Language : English

Mayim Mayim

On March 22, 1942, the director of the Fürth orphanage, Dr. Isaak Hallemann, his wife Klara, his daughters Eva and Beate-Esther and the 33 orphans were deported to Izbica and from there to the concentration camp Belzec. They never returned. From their fate the idea of a dance project, an homage to the children, was born. A celebration of life and a celebration of encounter beyond all borders, languages, countries and religions. 33 choreographers from all over the world are invited to symbolically adopt one of the orphans. On their behalf, 33 dancers came to Fürth danced for the Fürth orphanage children.

Director : Jakov Sedlar

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 60

Language : English

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