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...
Documentary film focusing on Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat and Righteous among the Nations, who saved approximately 10,000 Jews from the Nazis while serving in occupied Budapest. The film tells, in brief, about his activities and through the stories of prominent winners of the Wallenberg medals (Mip Heiss 1994, Kailash Satirtahi 2002, Eli Wiesel 1990, The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet 1994, John Lewis 2000, Paul Rosesgina 2005), shows the success of his enterprise. Includes archival photographs and film. Participants: Judy Lux, Jewish Community Foundation, John Godfrey, Director of Wallenberg Foundation,...
A documentary film. The film tells about the Jewish shtetl of Shargorod, where the building of the oldest synagogue in Eastern Europe, built in 1589, and the old Jewish cemetery with the graves of Hasidic tzaddiks have been preserved... It tells the story of the lives of Jews who lived there and in neighboring villages during the Holocaust
An important place in the film is given to the accomplished prophecy - the Miracle, predicted long before the tragedy of the Holocaust, by the greatest Kabbalist in Eastern Europe, one of the founders of Hasidism - Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov)...
"Astir Panai" is a documentary film about the Hassidic leader of Tsanz at the time of the Holocaust and after it ended. Holocaust researcher Moshe Roth talks about the Jewish world in Europe that the Holocaust destroyed, and tells about the Tsanz family in Galicia. He says that the Rabbi opposed Zionism and that he believed that during the Holocaust, God "hid his face" from the Jews. After the Holocaust, the Rabbi moved from DP camp to DP camp wanting to instill hope for a better future among the survivors. He established Jewish schools and yeshivas and other Jewish institutions. Then he moved from Europe to the...
A Documentary film. A portrait of the first religious female poet. She published her first book of poetry at the age of 53 and became a prominent figure in the field of Hebrew literature. Niece of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, living alone in Jerusalem, writing poems of pieces of paper, surrounded by a small court of lovers and admirers. Through never-seen before archival footage and meetings with her loves and friends.