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Summary: This documentary film depicts the journey of Holocaust survivor Esther Rotter from Israel to Poland where she was born, when in the background is the diary that she wrote when she was 14 years old. When Ester was nine-year-old she was given by her parents to a Ukrainian peasant family that hid her for two years during the war. After the war her parents' friends collected her from the villagers' home. She made aliyah and came to Kibbutz Merhavia. After sixty years Esther returns to Poland and meets her saviors. She finds out that they have been trying to find her all these years. Four of them...

Director : Yehudit Shenhar, Aliza Eshed

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 29

Language : Hebrew, Polish

ריפאגן הבלתי פגיע

A feature film. This is an epic of a real gangster and war profiteer who betrayed countless Jews in WWII Amsterdam. A foremost figure of the Dutch underworld, the menacing Dries Riphagen was a slick and unscrupulous con artist, most infamously remembered by history as a fervent Jew hunter. As a Nazi collaborator, Riphagen was tasked with tracking down Jews in hiding and confiscating their valuables. Using blackmail to extort small fortunes in jewels, property and currency, he would later betray the location of Jewish families and turn them over to the Germans to meet their fates

Director : Pieter Kuijpers

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 131

Language : Dutch, English, German

השואה בעיניים שלנו-קורותיהם של אלה ומריאן קמינסקי בשואה

סרט תיעודי של הבמאי דורון בראונשטיין, על בני הזוג אלה (אליזבת/לאה לבית פסטרנק) ומריאן קמינסקי, ניצולי שואה , על קורותיהם בשואה. אלה ובני משפחתה נמלטו לברית המועצות, ומריאן איבד את סבו , ועבר במספר מחנות ריכוז.

Director : דורון בראונשטיין

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 60

Language : Hebrew