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Documentary film. During the evening of Roshashana, the Jewish new year, six brothers and sisters remember their childhood spent during the Second World War in France. Brought up in a Jewish family of Polish immigrants, the eldest brother, Jack, is fifteen when his father is arrested by the French police and sent to Auschwitz. From then on, he has only one goal: save his entire family from death. This film tells the story of survival of a family united by mutual love and faith. the film includes the testimony of the famiily members, personal and national archive films, docuemnts and photogrphas

Director : Sabrina Van Tassel

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 58

Language : French

Council of the Gods

Based on actual events, this DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, the state film monopoly in the East Germany throughout that country's history) drama tells the story of I.G. Farben, a colossal German industrial corporation that helped supply Hitler’s war effort and manufactured the gas used in the Nazi death chambers. Using Nuremberg Trial records, Council of the Gods deals with the complicity of big business on both sides of the conflict and of scientists whose research contributed to the deaths of millions.

Director : Kurt Maetzig

Production Year : 1950

Duration : 105

Language : German

The SS - A Warning of History, Death's Head

A documentary film about the SS unit "Death's Head"; first officer Eicke, training for abuse and murder, SS in Nazi propaganda, terror in Poland, Einsatzgruppen, July 1941: murders in the Pinsk area by SS cavaliers, murder of the Jews, 29.9.1941: Babi Yar massacre, 19.4.1943: Warsaw ghetto uprising, 1964: trial of Auschwitz criminals in Frankfurt. Includes archival photographs and film footage(some in colour), segments from propaganda films, interviews. Participants: prisoners from Auschwitz, witnesses to atrocities, Warsaw ghetto fighters, German clerk, SS member, German police, survivors.

Director : Stefan Brauburger, Friederike Dreykluft

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 49

Language : English

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

סרט תעודי העוסק בסיפורו של פרד א. לוייכטר הבן (Fred A. Leuchter Jr.), מהנדס מומחה להוצאות להורג, ומכחיש שואה אמריקאי אשר פיתח כיסאות חשמליים ושיטת זריקת רעל קטלנית. לוייכטר התומך בעונש מוות, מתאר בסרט שיטות הוצאה להורג הנהוגות בארה"ב ומסביר גם כי "ממצאים" שגילה בעקבות ניסויים שערך בעצמו במחנות אושוויץ ומיידנק מצביעים על כך כי לא נעשה כל שימוש בגז במחנות הריכוז הנאציים. את מסקנותיו פירסם במסמך "דוח לוייכטר: סופו של מיתוס" (Leuchter Report: The End of a Myth) שפורסם במספר שפות ואומץ בידי ארגוני ימין קיצוני ניאו-נאציים, מה שהפך את לוייכטר, על פי הגדרתו העצמית, ל"רוויזיוניסט בלתי רצוני". לוייכטר גונה בידי ארגונים...

Director : Errol Morris

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 91

Language : English

This Year in Czernowitz

The cellist Eduard Weissmann makes from Berlin on the way from Vienna, the sisters Evelyne Katja Mayer and Rainer, from New York of the actor Harvey Keitel and the writer Norman Manea. The journey to the mythical places of their origin, not only in the past, but also in the present, to people who are today living in Czernowitz, the Ukrainian student Tanja and the Germans almost 90jährigen John Scott.

Director : Volker Koepp

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 133

Holocaust

This film uses documentary material and a visit to the Yad Vashem Museum to show the terrible story of the Holocaust of European Jewry in 1933-1945. During this period, six million of the eleven million Jews living in Europe, were killed. A special emphasis is put on the struggle of the Jews and the ghetto uprising.

Director : Ben Kerner

Production Year : 1975

Duration : 28

Language : Hebrew

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Final part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Liberation and Revenge’ completes the history of Auschwitz. As the end of the war approached, Auschwitz officers tried to hide the evidence of their crimes but were not completely successful. After liberation, survivors searched for their family and tried to return to their prewar homes, but former communities and neighbors did not always welcome them. As evidence of war crimes emerged, some senior SS officers were tried and convicted; others were allowed to resume their lives. Over 4 years, 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz and 1.1 million people died...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Fifth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Murder and Intrigue’ explores the web of international politics spun during the last nine months of 1944. By that spring, the Allies knew about Auschwitz and had the military capability to bomb it. Yet despite the pleas of Jewish leaders, the British and Americans decided not to bomb the railways or gas chambers. During the spring and summer, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz at a time when the killing machinery had been honed to perfection. That autumn saw a significant act of resistance in Auschwitz, when a group of Jewish...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Forth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Corruption’ reveals why Auschwitz was unique in the Nazi state as the only site that was both a concentration and an extermination camp. The reason was simple-money. At Auschwitz, the Nazis wanted to kill "useless mouths" instantly and work stronger prisoners to death as slave laborers in places like the nearby IG Farben factory. Meanwhile, the SS profited from the belongings of those they killed-so much so, that in the summer of 1943, an investigation was launched into corruption in the camp and the commandant was removed. Elsewhere, individuals and nations are...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution, part 3: Factories of Death.

Third part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Factories of Death’ examines the annihilation system that the Nazis spread throughout Europe, with Auschwitz as the hub. It tells why the first transport of Jewish men, women, and children interred at Drancy, outside Paris, were transported to Auschwitz in March 1942 and what happened to the children who were rounded up without their parents. Genocide is being perpetrated not only at Auschwitz, but also at other camps, such as Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor. In the final segment, Linda Ellerbee talks with Deborah Dwork, Rose Prof. of Holocaust History at Clark...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

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