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Jack Garfein, a Slovakian born American Holocaust survivor, visits Auschwitz forty five years after the war.

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 38

In June 1939, the Slovakian government issued a special decree concerning the military duties of Jews. According to the decree, all the Jews were removed from the regular army units in which they were serving and transferred to a labor unit - the sixth battalion - which also included gypsies and criminals. Based mostly on testimonies of former members of the battalion and includes also related original footage and archive photographic documentation.

Director : Miroslav Pazdera, Dušan Šimko

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 53

Language : English

The Forgotten Fighters in the Slovak National Uprising

This documentary is about the active part played by the Jewish citizens in the resistance movement in Slovakia. The film opens with a service in a synagogue, and the mountains to which the up risers fled. Over: The presenter recalls the name and heroism of some of the Jewish fighters. Foot: The wood where the fighters lived. Still: Newspaper extract after the war claiming the participation of a small number of Jews in the national uprising. A farmer, the deportation of people. Foot: The Slovakian parliament, newspaper articles of the regulations passed against...

Director : Laco Bartek

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 28

Language : English

Jack Gorfein - A Journey Back In Auschwitz

Documentary film that follows the visit of Jack Gorfein, native of Slovakia, and Auschwitz survivor, to the camp around 40 years after the liberation

Director : Brian Mckenna

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 53

Language : English

The Whole World is a Narrow Bridge

This private story of Slovakia’s Jewish community revolving around sepia-coloured photographs is dedicated to Ján Mozolák who saved the lives of 14 Jews who were supposed to be executed during the war. Would Jossi Steiner be the rabbi of Košice nowadays if he had not found shelter in the basement owned by the Slovak equivalent of Oscar Schindler? A touching and at the same time bitter story about survival, about an intimate list of Mozolák.

Director : Dušan Hudec

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 59

Language : English, Hebrew, Slovak