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The Secret Files of Nazism - Mengele: The Final Account

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 : 1996

Duration : 91

Language : French

Liebe Perla

Perla, a dwarf, is the last living member of a Jewish family of dwarfs that survived Dr. Mengele’s experiments in Auschwitz. She remembers that the Nazis documented her family on film, and dreams of finding the lost reel. Hannelore, a Christian dwarf born in postwar Germany, wants to help Perla fulfill her dream. As she conducts her search, Hannelore notices startling similarities between the Nazi’s goal of creating a perfect society and the “murder” of embryos and babies today, when they are diagnosed as having abnormalities. This story of the friendship between two very short women raises questions of birth...

Director : שחר רוזן

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 63

Language : German, Hebrew

Mengele - The Final Account

Documentary film that deals with Josef Mengele, a physician and SS Officer, who was known as "The Angel of Death of Auschwitz". Includes testimonies, archival films and photographs.

Director : Dan Setton

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 66

Language : Hebrew

Marianne's Story

This documentary tells the story of Marian Herman (Marianne (Mausi) Hermann Grant), a Holocaust survivor, who is today a painter whose works express her harsh memories from the Holocaust. Herman, resident of Glasgow, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Following the Nazi occupation she was deported to Terezin Ghetto (April 1942) and from there to Auschwitz for seven months (from December 1943), then to Neuengamme and finally to Bergen Belsen (July 1944) where she stayed till the liberation by British forces on April 15, 1945. After the war she married a German Jew, moved to Sweden and then to Scotland. Including...

Director : Rex Bloomstein

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 34

Language : English

Standing Tall at Auschwitz

This documentary presents the Ovitz family, a Jewish Rumanian dwarf family. They were the only family sent to Auschwitz to survive intact. In the 30s and 40s the family toured in Transylvania and its surroundings, entertaining audiences with their musical performances. During the Holocaust they were sent to Auschwitz and caught the attention of Dr Mengele, the SS doctor at the camp, who in an ironic way, became their protector. The film describes the family’s story – Rozika, Franzika, Avram, Frieda, Sarah, Micki, Leah, Elizabeth and Perla – who came from Rozavlea, Transylvania (today Rumania), through their...

Director : Paul Freedman

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 46

Language : English

The Tin Drum

Ironic satire based on The Tin Drum, a book by Nobel Prize Winning author Gunter Grass. "The Tin Drum" tells about Oscar, a child in Danzig at the end of the 1920s who decides to stop growing as a protest against the rise of Nazism and chooses to express himself only through shouting and banging on his tin drum. Winner of a number of international cinema prizes, among them an Academy Award for "Best Foreign Film".

Director : Volker Schlöndorff

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 145

Language : German