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Between 1934 an 1942, 526 Austrians fled from fascism and National Socialism to Colombia, which had been a haven for refugees who fled the Austrian civil war in the 1930ies. The majority of those immigrants were Jews, who escaped after the “Anschluss”, the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, to South America. Most of them reached Colombia via the seaport Barranquilla. There and in the capital Bogotá, they found a new homeland, established companies, and built up a living. The film presents personal destinies of those emigrants with archive material and contemporary interviews. 526 is dedicated to all those...

Director : Nikolaus Braunshör

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 53

Language : German

Watermarks

This documentary tells the story the Jewish women swimmers of Hakoah Vienna sport association that during the 1930’s won a number of competitions in Austria. The gifted swimmers refused to participate in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games and which Olympic and their careers were broken up with the outbreak of World War II. The Nazis closed Hakoah Vienna in 1938, but thanks to a rescue operation the women swimmers succeeded to escape from Austria short while before the war broke through. 65 years later, the film director gets together this group of women and reunited them for a last swim in the Vienna Olympic Swimming...

Director : ירון זילברמן

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 77

Language : English, German, Hebrew

The German Captains of the Caribia and the Koenigstein

A documentary film telling the story of two Jewish refugee boats, mostly from Austria, who needed to escape from the Nazi terror before the outbreak of the Second World War. The passengers on the Caribia & Koenigstein, were not given permission to enter several ports in the Caribbean Islands and Guana Islands. In the end, they were able to enter Venezuela thanks to the open-door policy of the President General López Contreras. Their stories is told in this film through testimonies of a number of the passengers, archival footage and different documents.

Director : Jonathan Jakubowicz

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 45

Language : English, Spanish

The Bar-Mitzva That Never Was

This documentary film by Tamara Vardin-Mutal tells the story of her family in Vienna during World War Two. The events of the Holocaust are presented through testimonies, photographs and archival footage. The film focuses on the story of four children, one of them the father of the director.

Director : Tamara Vardin Mutal, שרונה לויטן

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 36

Language : English

One Life

A feature film. The true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker , who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised it was a race against time. Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s...

Director : James Hawes

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 110

Language : English

Kindertranport to Sweden

A documentary. he film recounts the fate of four survivors of Jewish origin who were sent on their own by their parents to Sweden during the Third Reich, with the so-called "Kindertransports", in order to save them from the Nazi terror - and experienced a trauma which exists even today, with feelings of loss, loneliness, uprooting and a sense of guilt. Their stories depict the tragic fate of a winner who is at the same time the loser of his own salvation. Most of them never saw their parents again. Sweden gave only 500 children shelter.

Director : Gülseren Sengezer

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 91

Language : German, Swedish

Barraca 18 - Historia de un Sobreviviente

This documentary tells the story of Edgar Wildfeuer, today an engineer in Argentina. Born in Poland to a Jewish family, he spent WWII years trying to survive in Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow work Camp and Auschwitz as a prisoner working in Canada units and finally in Ebensee Camp, Austria. His story is told here through the use of personal testimony and archival materials.

Director : Maria Noelia Carrizo D'alessandro

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 65

Language : Spanish

Adele

סרט תיעודי קצר. סיפורה של אדל קורצווייל/Adèle Kurzweil, בת השבע עשרה

Director : Jean Charles Pizolatto

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 18

Language : French

Our Special Story – The Israel Philharmonic – From remembrance to Rebirth

A short documentary film. The features testimonies and personal stories of musicians who lived through the Holocaust as well as second and third generation survivors. The film traces the Orchestra’s beginnings in the 1930s, when Bronislaw Huberman, the noted Polish born Jewish violinist and musician, persuaded 75 Jewish musicians from major European orchestras to immigrate to Palestine after Hitler rose to power, creating what he called the “materialization of the Zionist culture in the fatherland” on the sand dunes of Tel Aviv. The Orchestra’s opening concert was conducted by Arturo Toscanini, the greatest...

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 21

Language : English

My Name is Victor Raab

A short documentary. Born in 1923 In Vienna, Austria, Victor Raab tells his life story. From living in Austria under the regime of Adlof Hitler, through his survival by the Kindertransport and his United States's military service as a German translator in the years post World War II. His fluency in German language helped facilitating the incrimination of Nazi war criminals.

Director : Shay Cohen

Duration : 19

Language : English

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