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A short documentary. Jack Aldewereld was born as a Jewish boy during World War II. When he was six months old, he had to go into hiding. He ended up in Brunssum, in Limburg: a mining town where more than 250 Jewish children were rescued during the war. The movie takes you goes to the town together with Chief Rabbi Jacobs to investigate Brunssum's resistance history. What is the story of Jack Aldewereld? How did he discover his real identity? And what can young people today learn from his story?

Director : Alexander Blom, Paola Van Oordt, Sara Van Oordt

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 21

Language : Dutch, English

#AnneFrank: Parallel Stories

A documentary film. The film tells the stories of five women who, as young girls, who were, as well as Anne Frank , also deported to concentration camps but survived the Holocaust. As a dedication to what would have been Frank's, 90th anniversary --and in cooperation with the Anne Frank Foundation --the documentary takes audiences into Anne's room within the secret annex of her family's hiding place before being deported, and through read excerpts of her diary intertwined with the experiences of the survivors who lived to tell their own parallel stories.

Director : Anna Migotto, Sabina Fedeli

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 91

Language : English, French, Italian

A ROSE IN WINTER

A feature flim. It recounts the extraordinary life of Edith Stein. Born Jewish, she demonstrated uncompromising courage as an outspoken advocate for equity in the Woman's Right Movement at the onset of National Socialism in Germany, and though her actions, as a Carmelite Nun, challenging the very foundation of the Holy See to stand up against the Holocaust: a path which would lead to her martyrdom in Auschwitz.

Director : Joshua Sinclair

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 137

Language : English