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Documentary film about a group of Israeli survivors, natives of Hungary, who were members of the resistance underground and rescue organizations visiting Budapest and telling about their lives during the Nazi occupation. Includes archival films that document Budapest during the war and mainly during the German occupation.

Director : Galia Shiloah Everes

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 63

Language : Hebrew

Schtonk! - The film about the Führer's Book

Based on actual news story that took place in Germany in the early 80s, this comic satire tells of Fritz, a life-long forger of Nazi memorabilia and Herrmann, a journalist who works for a tabloid-style magazine, who run into each other and fabricate a story of "Hitler's Diaries," a con that would acquire headlines for the journalist and cash for the forger. Best foreign language film nominee at the 1993 Academy Award.

Director : Helmut Dietl

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 90

Language : German

Zegota - A Time to Remember

A documentary film based on eye-witness testimonies and dealing with a tour that was given by the Polish organization Zegota to Polish Jews in general and the Warsaw Ghetto in particular. Among the participants: Israel Guttman and Yan Kirski.

Director : Sy Rotter

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 58

Language : English

ימים שזיעזעו את העולם: אמת או בדייה: מחלמת העולמות ויומני היטלר

BBC and The History Channel Documentary series, dealing with crucial days and events of the 20th century. Each chapter presents archive material and dramatic reenacments. This episode of the series Days that Shook the World deals with 2 media events that provoked a public interest and became known as forgeries. The first is the Orson Wells radio play, War of the Worlds, broadcasted on 31.10.1938 that since became a media myth. The second event in the program tells of the “discovery” of Hitler Diaries in April 1983 as it was told in the British Sunday Times and the West-German Stern. Based on a dramatic...

Director : David Bartlett

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

The Devil's Workshop - The Money Forgery workshop in Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen

Documentary Film. Using archival footage, archival photographs and the testimony of Adolf Burger, a Jewish Slovakian ex-prisoner of a concentration camp, this documentary film tells about the secret plan of the Nazis to financially ruin the Allied States.Burger publishes his story in the book entitled "Des Teufels Werkstatt" which was published in East Germany, and this film is based on it.

Director : Hans-Jürgen Ender

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 45

Language : German

Operation Bernhard

סרט תעודי העוסק בתוכנית נאצית סודית להרס כלכלת בריטניה ו"בנק אנגליה" (Bank of England)בזמן מלה"ע ה-2. בזקסנהאוזן (Sachsenhausen), מחנה ריכוז צפונית לברלין, יוצרו שטרות כסף בריטי מזויפים באיכות גבוהה ובערך השווה היום ל-3 מיליארד ליש"ט. התוכנית המקורית הייתה לייצר אף הרבה יותר ולהטיל את השטרות מעל בריטניה בהנחה שמרבית האנשים שימצאו אותם לא ימסרו אותם למשטרה או לבנקים והתוצאה תהיה אינפלציה אדירה ואובדן יציבות של המטבע הבריטי והממשלה הבריטית. לצורך ייצור השטרות המזויפים סקר הס"ס את מחנות הריכוז בחיפוש אחר בעלי כישורים גראפיים. קצין ס"ס בדרגת שטורמבנפיהרר, ברנהרד קרוגר, מומחה בזיוף דרכונים ומסמכים אחרים, ניהל את...

Director : John Christie

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 50

Language : English

Alexandre Glasberg - Memory, Memorie

Based on testimonies and archive photographs, this documentary tells the story of Alexandre Glasberg, a Ukrainian priest who was honored posthumously with the "Righteous Among the Nations" medal by Yad Vashem together with his brother, Vila Glasberg, for saving hundreds of French Jews from death during WWII.

Director : Julie Bertuccelli

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 40

Language : French

Burning Embers - A journey to the Soviet Union's Jewry, Summer, Part 2 1990.

Last episodes in the Israeli teleivision series that deals with the life of Jews in the Soviet Union and immigration to Israel. Episode 5 "A Strong East Wind", episode 6 - "Odessa-Another Matter", episode 7 "From A Spark To A Blaze", episode 8 - "The Goodbye Train Of The Rendel Family".

Director : Haim Yavin

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 220

Language : Georgian, Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish

אתה מת רק פעמיים

A documentary film by Yair Lev. A journey to uncover the true identity of the man who stole the director's grandfather during WWII, and with this exploit became the president of the Jewish community in Austria. What dark past did he conceal?

Director : Yair Lev

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 92

Language : English, German, Hebrew, Serbian-Croatian

The Testament

Feature Film. Yoel, a senior Holocaust researcher, is in the midst of a widely covered legal battle with powerful forces in Austria, concerning a brutal massacre of Jews that took place toward the end of WWII in the village of Lensdorf. An influential family of industrialists on whose land the murder took place, is planning to build a real estate project on the very same land. Yoel suspects that their aim is to bury the affair for good, but has trouble finding the conclusive evidence that would stop the project. While investigating the incident Yoel examines classified testimonies of Holocaust...

Director : עמיחי גרינברג

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 91

Language : German, Hebrew