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לחצות את קווים: העולם ללא חוקים, בגידות, חוקי מלחמה

Red Cross activities during the Holocaust. The film includes testimonies of Theresienstadt survivors, as well as interviews with former Red Cross employees, including Dr. Maurice Rossel, who was part of the delegation that visited the camp in 1944, and took many photographs, which are in archive at Yad Vashem.

Director : Roger Mills, Jenny Morgan, Claire Collinson-Jones, Jane Dibblin

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 147

Language : English, French

לודג' - הגטו האחרון

התוכנית טלויזיה של רשות השידור בהנחייתו של שלומי גולדברג, שתביא את סיפורה של הקהילה היהודית השנייה בגודלה בפולין אז והיום. בין המשתתפים: ד"ר מיכל אונגר ממוזיאון "יד ושם", אברהם זליג, מניצולי העיר, ואורי ויזנברג, דור שני ליהודי לודג'.

Director : Zvi Salfon

Production Year : 2006

Language : English, Hebrew

A Day In The Warsaw Ghetto - A Birthday Trip In Hell

A documentary film. At the outbreak of World War II, 380,000 Jews lived in Warsaw, about a third of the city's population. In the fall of 1940, the the Germans transferred them to the ghetto. On November 19, 1982, Günther Schwarberg, the editor of the German magazine "Der Stern" was invited to the home of an 84-year-old man, from whom he received a yellowing envelope with 140 negatives of photos he had taken 41 years earlier, during World War II. This man was Heinz Jost. who took pictures at the ghetto . The film combines archive footage, photographs by Joest, and excerpts from the diaries of Emmanuel...

Director : Jack Kuper

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 30

Language : English

Requiem for 500, 000

Director : Waclaw Kazmierczak, Jerzy Bossak

Production Year : 1963

Duration : 54

Language : German

Alive from the Ashes aka Born from the Ashes

This documentary was broadcasted in the Czech TV, based on the film "Alive from the Ashes". The film depicts the story of Avraham (Freidberg) Harshalom, born in Pruzany in Poland. At the age of 16, he was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. Avraham rebuilt his life in Czechoslovakia. After four years he immigrated to Israel. He served in the Israeli Air Force, raised a family and achieved success in an international industrial business venture. The film documents the journey that Harshalom took in the summer of 2004 with his children and grandchildren. Includes family photographs and...

Director : Itzik Kol

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 58

Language : Hebrew

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In 1987, in a Viennese antique shop, a few hundred colour slides were found. The slides documented the life in Lodz Ghetto. Through this slides collection, Arnold Mostowicz, survivor that who was Jewish physician in the ghetto, tells his memories.

Director : Dariusz Jablonski

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 71

Language : German, Polish, Yiddish

Free Fall, Private Hungary, part 10

Episode 10 in director’s Péter Forgács series "Private Hungary" which is based on a home footage that document the daily life of the Hungarians, before, during and after WWII. This experimental film is based on home movies, documenting the family life of Hungarian Jews from 1937 until the German occupation in 1944. This is a joint effort of the film director Péter Forgács and György Pető, an amateur photographer whose dozens of reels of film were made by Forgacs into a cinematic testimony about Hungary during the war and the German occupation.

Director : Peter Forgacs

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 71 75

Language : English, Hungarian

Little Town - Ghetto Kutno

Documentary film that deals with Kutno, a city in the Lodz district in central Poland. Former residents of the city watch archival films that document the city in September 1939 and June 1940 and tell their stories.

Director : Agnieszka Arnold

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 29

Language : Polish

מסע אל אוגוסטו

American-born Naomi Zeavin goes back to her family's town of Augustow, Poland and organizes support from Solidarity and the Catholic clergy to build a memorial and hold a commemoration service for Augustow's Jews. A moving and inspiring journey showing what one woman can accomplish.

Director : Naomi Zeavin

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 29

Language : English

People's Century - Master Race (1933), Total War (1939), Brave new World (1945)

Archival series of 26 programmes looking at the past 100 years. Three chapetrs are relevant: 1933- In this series looking at momemtous events in the twentieth century through the eyes of ordinary people, this programme looks at the rise of Hitler and its consequences. 1939- Civilians recount their experiences of the Second World War. 1945- Brave New World: Charts the meeting of American and Soviet armies on the banks of the Elbe in 1945. American and Russian soldiers talk about that experience. The programme covers the period from victory in the Second World War through the rise of the Cold War to the building...

Director : Jonathan Lewis, John Bridcut

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 107

Language : English

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