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On the eve of WWII, in the small Slovak town of Báncove, young Martin Friedmann-Petrasek has two main concerns: his Bar Mitzvah, and being scouted for a nationally-ranked football team. But larger fears loom for the Friedmann family and its nine children as the newly-formed Slovak state makes an alliance with Hitler. Martin's father senses the dangers ahead and struggles to keep the family together and safe, but one sibling after another is transported to Poland. Oblivious to these threats, Martin volunteers to go to to a work camp in Sered, where his friend has secured him a place on a football team. From here...

Director : Jiří Chlumský

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 129

Language : Russian, Slovak

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

We are Here

Documentary about Helen Shabas, a Holocaust survivor who shared insights and reflections on her life as a Jew in Poland under the Nazi occupation

Director : Harrison Heller

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 33

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2000 - Nata Osmo Gattegno

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2000. Torchlighter Nata Osmo Gattegno. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2001 - Zinaide Mudrik

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2001. Torchlighter Zinaide Mudrik. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 3

Language : Russian

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2011 - Avraham Aviel

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2011 "Fragments of Memory - The Faces Behind the Documents, Artifacts and Photographs". Torchlighter Avraham Aviel. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2009 - Shimon Greenhouse

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2009 "Children in the Holocaust". Torchlighter Shimon Greenhouse. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2008 - Michael Maor

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2008 "Holocaust Survivors in Israel: 60 Years Since the Establishment of the State". Torchlighter Michael Maor. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew