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Unconquered Souls- The story of Anita Boyko Fox

A documentary film. It’s the story of Anitta Boyko Fox and her family who fled Vienna after Hitler’s rise to power and Kristallnacht. It’s about survival, migration, resilience in the face of trauma and displacement, entrepreneurship, Zionism, the use of cutting edge science and technologies to assure the establishment of an emerging nation at existential risk, art, romance, and dogs.

Director : Joe Schreiber, Ian Burka

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 74

Language : English

Shattered Night

This docudrama is the reconstruction of the Innsbruck Kristallnacht on November 9th 1938. The bloodiest violence known as Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass) took place in town of Innsbruck, on the night of November 9th, 1938. Three people were killed and another man died of injuries a short time later. Twenty-five Jewish families were attacked in their homes and some seriously injured. The synagogue in Sillgasse was destroyed. Based on testimonies by Abi Bauer, Erika Schwarz-Shomroni, Avram Gafni (geb. Erich Weinreb), Dr. Rita Egger, Konstantin Forestier, Paul Unterlechner, Ingeborg Brüll and Richard...

Director : Hermann Weiskopf

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 87

Language : German