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But Who Could I Pray For? - The Story of Avraham Aviel

Avraham Aviel (Lipkonsky), born in 1929 in Dowgalishok, Poland. On 10 May 1942, Aviel and his family were taken together with the Jews of Radun (the village of the Rabbinic leader, the Chafetz Chaim) and the surrounding areas to be murdered in killing pits. His mother and brother Yekutiel (Koshka) were among those executed. Avraham and his brother Pinchas managed to escape. To Aviel’s great sorrow, Pinchas, who had survived the mass murder, was killed before his eyes while hiding in the Dowgalishok area. Avraham and his father found refuge with a Polish farmer, before he joined the partisans in 1943. That...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 58

Language : Hebrew

Morituri

Drama in the "Rubble Films" genre. The story of the film that carries a message against acts of vengeance deals with a group of prisoners in a concentration camp in Poland who escape from the camp with the aid of the German camp physician and find a hiding place in the forest. When a young German soldier falls into their hands alive, they find themselves coping with a moral dilemma.

Director : Eugen York

Production Year : 1948

Duration : 81

Language : German

Forgotten Transports to Belarus

Documentary about the lesser known transports of the Czechoslovakian Jews to the concentration camps in Belarus. The testimonies of the survivors are complemented by the unique archive material.

Director : Lukáš Přibyl

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 85

Language : Czech, Russian

The Katyn Lie

A documentary film about the Katyn massacre: about 4,000 Polish officers that were killed on Stalin's command by the NKVD in Katyn forest, not far from Smolensk, Russia, at the start of 1940. The Polish soldiers were captured by the Russians when Germany overtook Poland in September 1939. When the mass graves were discovered by the German forces in April 1943, the exiled Polish Government demanded an investigation into who had carried out the murders. An American investigation by Congress discovered that the NKVD was responsible. As a result of Gorbochev's "Glasnost" policy, the Soviet Union released...

Director : Michael Kloft, Bengt Von Zur Muehlen

Production Year : 1993

Language : Hebrew

Defiance

Three Jewish brothers (Craig, Schreiber and Bell) escape from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and others in danger.

Director : Edward Zwick

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 137

Language : English

Battle of the Bulge

A Hollywood war film inspired by real events, but known to be not very faithful to the historical truth of World War II Battle of the Bulge. A Panzer brigade, led by the fictional Colonel Hessler (played by Robert Shaw and inspired by real Waffen SS officer Joachim Peiper) leads a German secret counter-attack against the Allied front in the heavily wooded Ardennes sector of Belgium/Luxembourg. An American Intelligence officer (Henri Fonda) tries in vain to persuade his superiors of the German intentions. The Americans are surprised, with heavy casualties. Hessler's initial success ends as his unit runs out of...

Director : Ken Annakin

Production Year : 1965

Duration : 167

Language : English

Band of Brothers - 6, Bastogne

Episode six in the HBO-BBC co-production television series that is based on true occurrences and tell the story of Easy Company, an American infantry company during WWII. The full activity of the company is explored starting from the initial basic training stage through the invasion of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and to the liberation of Europe. Among the producers of the series, are director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks.

Director : David Leland

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 63

Language : English

Band of Brothers - 5, Crossroads

Episode five in the HBO-BBC co-production television series that is based on true occurrences and tell the story of Easy Company, an American infantry company during WWII. The full activity of the company is explored starting from the initial basic training stage through the invasion of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and to the liberation of Europe. Among the producers of the series, are director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks.

Director : Tom Hanks

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 53

Language : English

The Partisans

Documentary film that brings the testimony of three partisans who describe life in the partisan units, the activities and the difficulties they experienced. The film makes use of photographs of life in the forest and their fighting operations.

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

Digital Map- Partisan Deployment

Animated map that presents the spread of partisan activity in Europe. Photographs and texts in English are integrated in the map.

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 2

Language : Silent Film

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