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Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2002 - Esther Zamri

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2002. Torchlighter Esther Zamri. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

But Who Could I Pray For? - The Story of Avraham Aviel

Avraham Aviel (Lipkonsky), born in 1929 in Dowgalishok, Poland. On 10 May 1942, Aviel and his family were taken together with the Jews of Radun (the village of the Rabbinic leader, the Chafetz Chaim) and the surrounding areas to be murdered in killing pits. His mother and brother Yekutiel (Koshka) were among those executed. Avraham and his brother Pinchas managed to escape. To Aviel’s great sorrow, Pinchas, who had survived the mass murder, was killed before his eyes while hiding in the Dowgalishok area. Avraham and his father found refuge with a Polish farmer, before he joined the partisans in 1943. That...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 58

Language : Hebrew

Forgotten Transports to Poland

Documentary about the lesser known transports of the Czechoslovakian Jews to the concentration camps in Poland. The testimonies of the survivors are complemented by the unique archive material.

Director : Lukáš Přibyl

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 90

Language : Czech, English

Child Of The Forest

The Heritage Film Project presents Holocaust survivor Yona Bromberg as she recalls her early childhood in Rokitno, Poland.

Director : Eduardo Montes-Bradley

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 15

Language : English

The Phoenixes

Summary: A documentary. The film presents the stories of seven Holocaust survivors and their various contributions to the state of Israel in various areas of life. Among the participants in the film are: Prof. Andre Hajdu - Israel Prize laureate in music. Moshe Zanbar – former Governor of the Bank of Israel. Yitzhak Arad - a retired Chief of Education Officer in the Israeli army and one of the founders of Yad Vashem. In the film, there is footage of visits to the Museum at Latroun, and to Yad Vashem.

Director : מיכה שגריר

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 52

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Triumph

Documentary film presenting the stories of Jack and Lia Pariser, a Jewish brother and sister who lived with their parents Abraham (Abe) and Sarah Pariser, before the Nazi occupation in a village called Jodlowa in Poland, a small town with 600 residents, half of whom were Jewish. In August 1942 about half of the Jews were shot to death in the nearby forest. Today a monument has been erected in this place of murder in their memory . Members of the Pariser family escaped from the village and survived the war in hiding thanks to the support of members of the Swierczak family, Poles who were recognized as...

Director : Jay Boylan

Production Year : 2001

Language : English

Lisa Derman's Tribute Video

This documentary, based on family photographs and interviews tells the story of Lisa and Aron Derman, young polish-Jewish couple that escaped the Vilna ghetto in 1941 to join the partisans. Only 15 and 18 at the time, they fought and survived in the forests of Lithuania until the war was over. For weeks they traveled, making their way across mountains and borders. Finally they reached Italy, and there they met the Jewish Brigade. Few in their families survived. For many years lisa devoted her life to education and learning about the Holocaust and humanity.

Duration : 13

Language : English

The Conversion of the Good Neighbour

סרט טל' בהפקת הערוץ השני של הטל' הגרמנית, ZDF, העוסק בתומס 'טויבי' בלאט (Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt), ניצול מחנה המוות סוביבור. בלאט הוא מניצולי בריחת האסירים ההמונית מן המחנה שהתרחשה באוקטובר 1943 והוא אף השתתף בכתיבת התסריט לדרמת הטל' המצליחה "הבריחה מסוביבור" (1987). הסרט מלווה את בלאט בעת מתן עדות בפני בני נוער ובביקור שורשים בפולין. כולל תצלומי ארכיון של כמה ממשתפי המרד בסוביבור.

Director : Peter Nestler

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 85

Language : English, German, Polish

Survivor

Produced by polish TV (TV3), this documentary deals with Sobibor death camp in east Poland. In the center of the film is the figure of Thomas Toivi Blatt, survivor of the escape from the camp that took place in October 1943. Blatt took part in writing the script for the 1987 TV drama “The Escape From Sobibor” and he is the author of the 1982 book Sobibor - The Forgotten Revolt.

Director : Grazyna Czermińska, Bogdan Czermiński

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 20

Language : Polish

Escape to the Forest: the Partisans of Mir

Documentary film that brings the testimony of Oswald Rufeisen (Brother Daniel) and Shmuel Czesler about the escape to the nearby forest in an action that was made possible thanks to special conditions that existed in the ghetto. The film makes use of archival photographs and films and texts in Hebrew and English.

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

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