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Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 1996 - David Pur

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 1996. Torchlighter David Pur. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 30

Language : Hebrew

היכן בוקובינה שלי?

תיעוד ביתי.

Director : ד"ר ישראלה זילברמן

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 10

Language : Hebrew

Promised Land

A documentary. The Mediterranean Sea has always been a crossing point allowing people to find welcoming shores and a better future. During and after the World War II the Jews who survived the Shoah crossed it from Italy to get to the land they left 2000 years before Eretz Yisrael. Italy who was responsible of Fascist Racial Laws during the war , later granted them protection and the possibility to leave from their coasts. Great Britain took position against the mass migration, fearing the Arabs in the Region would become a minority irritated by the circumstances. Ben-Gurion charged the Mossad LeAliyah Bet, the...

Director : Daniele Tommaso

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 88

Language : Italian

You Never Said Anything About Yourself - The Story of Michael (Miki) Goldman-Gilad

A documentary. Michael (Miki) Goldman, Gilad. Born in Katowice, Poland in 1925. In 1939, moved to Bircza with family. In 1941 the family moved to Nizankowice and from there Michael was taken to a slave labour camp in Przemysl. Building the Ghetto in Przemysl. Most of the Jews from the Przemysl Ghetto were sent to Belzec extermination camp in 1942. As slave laborer, sent to Szebnie labor camp and from there to Auschwitz. Worked in Buna Monowice factory. During death march from Auschwitz in 1944 escaped to the village Wielopole. After liberation, joined the Red Army and later active in the Bricha movement. From...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 61

Language : Hebrew

עתידו של העבר

סרט תיעודי קצר. סיפורו של יחיאל ויגדור , יליד שנת 1935, רומניה.

Director : שירן סיבוני

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 11

Language : Hebrew

A Remnant of Hope – The Story of Shmuel Bogler

A short documentary. Shmuel Bogler was born in Bodrogkeresztúr, Hungary, in 1929 to a religious family. In April 1944, in the midst of the holiday of Passover, the village’s Jews were deported to a ghetto in the provincial capital of Sátoraljaújhely. Several weeks later, on May 21st 1944, Shmuel and his family were taken from the ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau. His parents were sent immediately to the gas chambers and Shmuel and his brother were sent to the Kittlitztreben labor camp. On February 9th 1945 the two brothers were sent on a death march together with another 1000 Jews from the camp. After about two...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 36

Language : Hebrew

What Will Become of Us

A documentary. Frank Lowy, founder of shopping mall giant Westfield, started with one Australian store and built it into a global, billion dollar enterprise. Now in his late 80s and facing the prospect of a merger that will lead to his retirement, he reflects on his past and events that have molded him into the fighter, philanthropist and survivor he is today. Born Jewish in what was then Czechoslovakia in 1930, Lowy survived the Holocaust, moved to Australia and built a close family and business empire.

Director : Steven Cantor

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 72

Language : English

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כתבת טלוויזיה. שודרה בתוכנית "טוקר בשישי" בערוץ 13, בתאריך 20.7.18. המנחה , מנחם טוקר מראיין את יו"ר מועצת יד ושם , הר' ישראל מאיר לאו, שהיה ילד ניצול שואה. הר' מסביר את מקורותיו של ט' באב ביהדות. כמו כן מספר הר' שהוא ואחיו, נפתלי לביא, עלו לארץ מיד לאחר השואה, בשנת 1945, תש"ה ,בז' באב, ליל תשעה באב.

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 11

Language : Hebrew

In the Shadows of Beau Bassin

Documentary tells the story of former Mauritian Geoff Geffroy's search to discover the roots of his Jewish identity against the backdrop of the incarceration of 1 670 Jewish refugees who were deported to Mauritius after attempting to reach Palestine from Nazi-occupied Europe and detained there by the British government for the remainder of the war. Beau Bassin was the name of the prison in which the refugees were held from 1940 to 1945.

Director : Kevin Harris

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 48

Language : English