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Nyosha is a ten year old girl. She dreams of buying a pair of shoes during the reality of a pitiless war. She believes that because of her shoes, she will stay alive. A range of animation techniques brings together the dream and the reality and tells Nyosha's story.

Director : לירן קפל, יעל דקל

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 12

In Darkness

Drama inspired by the real exploits of a Polish sewer worker and sometime burglar named Leopold Socha, who helped Jews during the Nazi occupation of Lvov (now Lviv, in Ukraine), provides the latest evidence that the Holocaust movie has become a genre in its own right. Even a true story can follow the familiar conventions of film narrative, and this tale of a righteous gentile selflessly assisting in the survival of a handful of persecuted Jews is no exception.

Director : Agnieszka Holland

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 145

Language : Polish

Pursuit aka Twist of Fate

A two-part miniseries about an SS-Lieutenant Colonel Helmut Von Schreader who, in the waning days of the Third Reich, undergoes plastic surgery and becomes a concentration-camp prisoner to avoid prosecution as a war criminal. In an ironic twist of fate, he is shipped to the wrong camp and forced to live with those he has victimized, where he learns to respect them. After the war, he becomes involved in the founding of Israel, marries and fathers a son, who eventually stumbles across his identity 20 years later.

Director : Ian Sharp

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 177

Language : English

Going and Coming Back

A feature film. This movie tells the story of the members of a Jewish family who flee the Germans and end up hiding in the country . Unfortunately, the Gestapo finds them and they are sent to a concentration camp. The film then leaps ahead to 1985 where the daughter of the couple begins believing that her dead brother has been reincarnated as a famed pianist. She feels this is so because both of them love Rachmaninoff's "Concerto No. 2".

Director : Claude Lelouch

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 114

Language : French

Les enfants caches en Belgique pendant la Shoah - les porteurs de bagages

סרט תיעודי קצר. אודות האנשים שדאגו למסתור לילדים יהודים בבלגיה במהלך השואה.

Director : Nicole Bard

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 30

Language : French

Les enfants caches en Belgique pendant la Shoah

הקלטת פאנל. מתוך ועידה שהתקיימה בירושלים בשנת 2007

Director : Nicole Bard

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 30

Language : French

Bear and Fred

סרט תיעודי קצר.

Director : Famie, Keith

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 14

Language : English

We Would Meet After the War - The Story of Naftali Fürst

A short documentry. Naftali (Juraj) Fürst was born in 1932 in Bratislava, Slovakia (then Czechoslovakia) to Margit and Artur. He had one older brother, Shmuel (Peter). After the Slovak State was declared and anti-Jewish measures were implemented, the family went into hiding but were caught. In 1942 they were interned in the Sered concentration camp. In 1944, they managed to escape to Piešťany. By then the Germans had entered and occupied Slovakia. The family members were caught once again and were reinterned in Sered, which came under German command. In November 1944 the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 36

Language : German

Had Father Not Returned - The story of Bracha Weiner

A short documentary film. Bracha Wiener (née Mandel) was born in Staszow, Poland in 1927 to her parents, Chaya and Szulim. She had a sister and two brothers. Bracha's father owned a lumberyard and had a good relationship with his Polish workers. After the Germans entered the town in early September 1939, the family had attempted to escape. As mainly Jewish men at the age of work were being targeted, her father went into hiding and she, together with her mother and siblings, returned to Staszow. Several months later her father returned as well. On June 15, 1942, a ghetto was established in Staszow. Believing that...

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 34

Language : Spanish

263 Nights

A short animated movie. It is an actual story of the 26 prisoners of the Minsk ghetto who have voluntarily confined themselves in the basement, short on food and water - and waited for the Red Army to arrive. They have spent the terrible 263 days and nights there. The youngest son of the stove maker Pinchus Dobin, who built that heaven-sent and hell-bent basement, is still alive.

Director : Irina Tarasova

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 27

Language : Russian

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