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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

Heroes and Tyrants of the 20th Century - Hitler

חייו של הרודן, עליית הנאציזם ומהלכים מרכזיים במלה"ע ה-2 באמצעות תצלומי וסרטי ארכיון. מלה"ע ה-1, חיי כלכלה בגרמניה, ספרטקים, הפגנות, מפלגה נאצית, ס"א, עיתונים, ארנסט רוהם, פוטש 1923, רודולף הס, "מיין קאמפף", יוליוס שטרייכר, "דר שטירמר", הינדנבורג, לודנדורף, בחירות, מצוקה כלכלית, מפגנים, תעמולה, פון שלייכר, פון פאפן, מצעדים, 27.2.33 - שרפת הרייכסטאג, מעצרי מתנגדים, 1.4.33 - חרם כלכלי על עסקים יהודים, 1.5.33 - שרפת ספרים, מוסוליני, 30.6.34 - "ליל הסכינים הארוכות", ס"ס, ברכטסגאדן, גלי ראובל, אווה בראון, צבא גרמני, תעשייה צבאית, קרופ, "לבנסבורן", איינשטיין, 7.3.36 - כוחות גרמנים בריינלנד, 12.3.38 - "אנשלוס", 30.9.38...

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 55

Language : English

The Oppermans, Part 1

A television adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger "The Oppermann House" (Die Geschwister), co-production of the BBC and ZDF (German 2nd TV channel). The story of the Oppermanns, a Jewish-German family, owners of a big department store in Berlin of the early 30s.

Director : Egon Monk

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 104

Language : English, German

The Red Orchestra

Based on the book by Gilles Perrault (1967), this spy drama tells the story of Leopold Trepper (1904-1982), a real life communist Polish Jew who set up espionage network in occupied Western Europe, which the Nazis named the "Red Orchestra." In 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo in Paris, but eventually escaped. On January 1945, by Stalin's orders, he was arrested in Moscow and put to prison. With his discharge, only after the dictator died, he involved himself in the cultural development of the Jewish community of Poland. Eventually, he chose emigration to Israel, which he was allowed to do only after three...

Director : Jacques Rouffio

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 121

Language : French

Hitler’s Assistant – Hess the Deputy

Documentary film about Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler's close associates. The film deals with Hess's path in the Nazi party, his relations with Hitler, his jobs until the outbreak of the war, his personality, his mysterious flight to England, his arrest, his trial in Nuremberg, his family and his admiration by the neo Nazi movement. Includes archival films and testimonies.

Director : Guido Knopp

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 41

Language : German

1944 October Budapest

כתבה קצרה על איסוף יהודי בודפשט באוקטובר 1944 ע"י המפלגה הפשיסטית "צלב החץ" שתפסה את השלטון והשליטה משטר טרור בבודפשט. מאות יהודים נורו. אחרים גויסו לעבודות-כפייה אכזריות.

Director : János Varga

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 7

Language : Hungarian

Roundup - 17-19 October 1944

סרט תיעודי קצר איסוף יהודי בודפשט באוקטובר 1944 ע"י המפלגה הפשיסטית "צלב החץ" שתפסה את השלטון והשליטה משטר טרור בבודפשט. מאות יהודים נורו. אחרים גויסו לעבודות-כפייה אכזריות.

Director : János Varga

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 16

Language : Hungarian

Memory

Jewish-Italians Auschwitz survivors who were in their teens during the Holocaust tell their stories: post war childhood, the change in their lives with the racial legislation in 1938, arrests and deportations of the Jews with the invasion of Germany to Italy in September 1943 and the establishment of the pro-German puppet government located at Salo, escape attempts to Switzerland through Milan, deportations to Auschwitz, the procedure of execution the gas chambers (Shlomo Venezia, former Sonderkommando), the singular bond between Rome's Jewish Ghetto residents, liberation. Narration by Italian actor...

Director : Ruggero Gabbai

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 82

Language : Italian

Extraordinary People from Oświęcim - How They Aided Auschwitz Prisoners

This is a film about how the residents of the land of Oświęcim rescued Auschwitz prisoners. Oświęcim is a town in southern Poland, situated some 50 kilometres west of Kraków. Outside Poland, it is sometimes still called Auschwitz, its German name, in reference to the Auschwitz concentration camp built there by Nazi Germany during World War II. Auschwitz Museum historians have managed to establish the names of over 1,200 Poles from Oświęcim and the vicinity who aided prisoners. The Germans arrested at least 177 people in revenge. Sixty-two of them perished in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. One of the...

Director : Stefan Wilkanowicz

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 29

Language : Polish

Witnesses to Victory

The climactic last moments of the Second World War, evoked through interviews and the diaries and letters of ten people caught up in the liberation of Europe from the grip of Nazi terror.

Language : English

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