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Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2003 - Hela Schüpper-Rufeisen

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2003. Torchlighter Hela Schüpper-Rufeisen. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2003 - David (Yorek) Plonski

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2003. Torchlighter David (Yorek) Plonski. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2002 - Kalman Perk

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

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Torn

האם אדם יכול להיות בו–זמנית גם כומר קתולי וגם יהודי שומר מצוות? 12 שנה לאחר שהוסמך לכמורה, גילה הכומר הקתולי הפולני רומוולד וואשקינל שהוא נולד להורים יהודים וששמו המקורי הוא יעקב וקסלר. הסרט עוקב אחרי מסעו המרתק של הכומר היהודי, שתחילתו בניהול מיסה בכנסיה בלובלין, פולין ואחריתו בחיים של יהודי שומר מצוות בקיבוץ דתי בישראל. קרוע בין שתי זהויות, רומוולד יעקב לא יכול לוותר על אף אחת מהן, וכתוצאה מכך אף אחת מהדתות אינה מוכנה לקבל אותו לשורותיה. מדינת ישראל מסרבת להכיר בו כיהודי, וכעת הוא נדרש לבחור.

Director : רונית קרצנר

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 72

Language : English, French, Hebrew, Polish

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

Exiled

Based on Anatoly Dimarov’s novella "Simyon Reznik", this feature film tells a story taking place in the summer of 1941. A poor Jewish wagon slowly moves away from Kolomya, occupied by the fascists, to the yet carefree Poltava. The handsome portly Simon, his incomparable beloved wife Basia, their red-haired children born in love, will find shelter in a Ukrainian village on the banks of the quiet Khorol, they will be saved from the annihilation that awaits them all…

Director : Vladimir Savelyev

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 75

Language : German

Broken Promise

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

Inside Edition - Save The Children

Story of Andree Geulen-Herscovici, Righteous Among the Nations who saved Jewish children in Belgium. Include testimonies, personal stories and photos archive.

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 9

Language : English

Birth certificate

Threes short- stories (On the road, Letter from the camp, Blood drop) presenting full of tension atmosphere of every day occupation life, From the children's perspective.

Director : Stanislaw Rozewicz

Production Year : 1961

Duration : 99

Language : Polish

Kapò

This 1959 Italian-French co-production tells the story of Jewish 14-year-old Edith (Susan Strasberg) that is deported with her parents a Nazi concentration camp, where the latter are murdered. Sofia (Didi Perego), an older, political prisoner, and a kindly camp doctor save her from a similar fate by giving her a new, non-Jewish identity, that of the newly dead Nichole Niepas. As time goes by, she becomes more toughened to the brutal life and a fraternization with a guard, Karl (Gianni Garko), helps her become a kapo. She thrives while the idealistic Sofia grows steadily weaker. When she falls in love with Sascha...

Director : Gillo Pontecorvo

Production Year : 1959

Duration : 112

Language : French, Italian

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