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Reporter Lesley Stahl interviews former slaves who had sued Volkswagen. The segment featured Professor Neuborne summing up the case of sompensation

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 15

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

I Was A Slave Labourer

Auschwitz survivor Rudy Kennedy's campaign to establish compensation rights for prisoners used as slave labour by the Nazi war machine.

Director : Luke Holland

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 75

Language : English

The Blockhouse

A feature film and a thriller. Set during World War 2 in an underground German blockhouse. Six men of wildly varying nationalities and walks of life are trapped in the blockhouse-and remain so for over six years. Though their prison is well stocked with food and beverages, the mortality rate is appalling, the victims dying more from loneliness and fear than anything else. This Film was based on a novel by Jean Paul Ciebert which was inspired by a true story.

Director : Clive Rees

Production Year : 1973

Duration : 93

Language : English

Imperial Exploitation – Forced Laborers in Germany

During WW2 around eight million foreigners were forced to work in Germany. Based on archival materials and testimonies, this documentary reavels this aspect in the history of Nazi Germany. It explores, from the viewpoint of the culprits and victims, how the system of forced labor deployment developed.

Director : Wolfgang Bergmann

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 177

Language : German

A Love in Germany

Based on a non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, Eine Liebe In Deutschland is about a tragic and forbidden love affair between Stanislaw, a Polish POW and Paulina a fruit-and-vegetable vendor in a small town in Germany along the border with Switzerland. Their affair would have gone undetected except for the busybody women of the village, and when Stanislaw is picked up by a German stormtrooper and brought in for a mock trial, he is given a chance to prove his racial purity and so perhaps escape execution. As for Paulina, she is ostracized by the villagers and imprisoned for consorting with...

Director : Andrzej Wajda

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 132

Language : German

Alfred Nakache, The Swimmer of Auschwitz

Documentary on Alfred Nakache born in November 1915 in Constantine, Algeria swimming champion deported to Auschwitz with his family.

Director : Christian Meunier

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 49 51

Language : French

Deadly Deception at Sobibor

סרט תיעודי. A documentary. To hide the murder of 250,000 Jews, a daring revolt, and mass escape by 300 prisoners, the Nazis meticulously destroyed the camp. Today, a forest conceals their crimes. Now, archeologists have uncovered what the Nazis tried to wipe from history. Unfolding as a compelling tale of detection, this documentary, takes viewers behind-the-scenes of the crime scene as an unprecedented 10-year investigation takes place. Using live-action scenes, interviews, and 3-D animation, the documentary weaves history and science together to follow excavations by archeologists Yoram Haimi of Israel,...

Director : Gary Hochman

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 104

Language : English

Survival of a Spirit

סרט תיעודי משולב אנימציה.

Director : Patricia Bury Salier

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 51

Language : English

שאלות שרצינו לשאול – שיחות עם ניצולי שואה. פרק שמיני

סרט מקור קצר. מתוך סדרת מקור של יד ושם הכוללת ראיונות קצרים עם ניצולי שואה.

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 14

Language : Hebrew

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