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This documentary film brings the story of Anna Maria Habermann Milan, the 1990s. Anna's mother dies. Looking through the legacy of her parents, she finds some official documents and letters. Reading them, she learns at the age of 50, that her father had another family at a Southern Hungarian town, Baja, that she had a brother, and that her father was a baptized Jew. From the letters it turns out that her father wanted to take the little boy, Tamás to Italy, but there were always obstacles in the way – and then came 1944. The boy was deported. Anna Maria travelled to Hungary to find her roots.

Director : Róbert Kollár, Sándor Lázs

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 53

Language : Hungarian, Italian

Retrace

A feature film. Katherine, the Holocaust survivor visits Transylvania, Romania departing from Sweden with her family. The past comes to life and she faces reality of Ceausescu’s dictatorship while a romance develops between her husband and sister.

Director : Judit Elek

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 98

Language : Hungarian, Swedish

B-2247 - A Granddaughter's Understanding

Philadelphia native and Yale graduate Sara Greenberg travels with her survivor grandparents to witness the world they lived in. It is a younger generation's testament to the need to remember.

Director : Sara Greenberg

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 13

Language : English

Mama, L'Chaim!

A short documentary. The life of 62-year-old Chaim Lubelski, who lives with his 95-year-old mother in a one-bedroom apartment in a Jewish residential home for the elderly. Chaim’s mother, Nechama, was born in Poland and survived the Nazi concentration camps. Her parents and her first husband were killed in Auschwitz. After the war, she and her second husband, Wolf, also a concentration camp survivor, wanted to emigrate to America, but they were denied because of Wolf’s tuberculosis and forced to stay in Germany. Chaim made it his mission in life to care for them as they got older.

Director : Elkan Spiller

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 6

Language : English, German

Man and Beast

A drama about two brothers who meet by chance at Mauthausen concentration camp. One is a prisoner, the other an SS guard. The prisoner finds out that all the prisoners are to be executed before the Russians reach the camp. He manages to escape, but in an attempt to join the Soviet forces, he shot by his own brother.

Director : Edwin Zbonek

Production Year : 1963

Duration : 88

Language : German

ליאם

A feature film. Liam is a seven-year-old boy growing up in 1930s Liverpool. Liam's father works at the local shipyard, while his mother keeps the household afloat, pinching pennies, yet keeping spirits high. Life takes a terrible turn when the shipyard closes and Dad loses his job. Humiliated by the fact that his teenage daughter, Teresa, must work as a maid in a wealthy Jewish household, and that his eldest son is the family's major breadwinner, Dad loses his self-respect and becomes disillusioned. A Jewish pawnbroker buys their family trinkets for cash. Their Jewish landlord harasses them for rent. And...

Director : Stephen Frears

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 91

Language : English

A Secret

Based on Philippe Grimbert's fact-inspired novel, Un secret tells of a French-Jewish family torn apart during the Nazi occupation. Francois is Parisian who's informed his elderly father has gone missing. This triggers flashbacks to 1955, when he was a shy boy, intimidated by his parents: Tania, a swimmer, and Maxim, a gymnast. The boy's best friend is Louise, who runs a business close to the family's clothing shop. Francois also has an imaginary brother who's fearless and athletic. Discovering an old toy in the attic, Francois pulls a long-hidden truth out of Louise: He once had a half-brother. Prewar scenes...

Director : Claude Miller

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 105

Language : French

Blind Man's Bluff

A dramatic feature film depicting the journey of self-discovery of Mickey Stav, an introverted and inhibited talented classical pianist. She leaves her family home with the existence of her oppressive and devouring Holocaust survivor mother, a castrated and needy father, and a senile grandfather. She is also trying to break free of the bonds of an ex-boyfriend. Her journey to independence takes her through an exciting but disappointing love affair, musical success and her mother's death.

Director : ענר פרמינגר

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 93

Language : Hebrew

The Mortal Storm

A feature film. This movie was one of the earliest to examine how a society can be swept off their feet by a fascist regime. Freya Roth is the daughter of a preeminent Jewish science professor and an aristocratic German mother. She has one younger brother and two elder, full-blooded German half-brothers. An outwardly anti-Nazi film released a year before the United States entered World War II, The film was a damning indictment. MGM, the production company, worried that the movie would negatively affect their German audiences, avoided mentioning “Germany” as much as possible, and outright refused to identify...

Director : Frank Borzage

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 100

The Man I Married

Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America.

Director : Irving Pichel

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 77

Language : English

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