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.
Short drama about the story of the childhood of Ester Levi, aYugoslav born Holocaust survivor and today an Israeli citizen. The story takes place in Hungary. The film was made as a final project in Melbourne University (Australia) by her daughter, Judy Bitterman. Levy's grand-daughter Liyanplays her as a child, hiding with a local Polish family in the village. The story is based on her experiences as a child as written in her book "Before Saying Goodbye". In the book Levi describes the year of her life in hiding. She was only spoken to when something was wanted of her, she slept on a bench, she couldn't shower...
Documentary film presenting the stories of Jack and Lia Pariser, a Jewish brother and sister who lived with their parents Abraham (Abe) and Sarah Pariser, before the Nazi occupation in a village called Jodlowa in Poland, a small town with 600 residents, half of whom were Jewish. In August 1942 about half of the Jews were shot to death in the nearby forest. Today a monument has been erected in this place of murder in their memory . Members of the Pariser family escaped from the village and survived the war in hiding thanks to the support of members of the Swierczak family, Poles who were recognized as...
During WWII, three Polish sisters got the chance to have a little brother: a 6-year-old Jewish boy named Andre Nowacki, who, with his mother, hid in their Warsaw apartment 30 months. They taught him proper Polish, gave him their books to read and played with him. One day, when the Gestapo knocked on the door, they hid him under their bed and bounced on it as they would a trampoline, as a distraction. After the war they all separately resumed their lives. In 24.11.04, after nearly 60 years, Mr. Nowacki, who lives in Long Island, got to meet the sole surviving sister, Hanna Morawiecka, in a reunion arranged by the...
Made by director Terri Randall, this personal documentary is about her father's trip to southern Poland and the story of Maria Feder, Righteous Among Nations, who was hiding Jews during the Nazi occupation in her barn. The film was screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 1990.
סרט תעודי המספר על אלי זבורובסקי (Eli Zborowski), שהיה בן 13 עם הכיבוש הנאצי של פולין, שרד את השואה ובחר להיות רב. הוא מספר על נעוריו והתבגרותו בטרם עת מול הרס משפחתו והקהילה היהודית של זרקי (Zarki) ומתאר כיצד ניצל בזכות מחבוא שניתן לו ע"י משפחה פולנית. כולל תיעוד ביקורו של זבורובסקי ביד ושם.
Is the story of the survival of Elizabeth Mundlak, born in the Ghetto during the war and smuggled to the Christian side to be raised by a Christian family.
During the First World War, a Jewish boy whose parents have been killed finds refuge with a Catholic family who treat him like a son. The priest, who knows the boy’s secret, helps him to integrate in the community but when his new family falls apart because of the father’s death, the boy is not so sure about his status.
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...