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Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2003 - Edith Drori

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2003. Torchlighter Edith Drori. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2002 - Esther Zamri

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2002. Torchlighter Esther Zamri. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

But Who Could I Pray For? - The Story of Avraham Aviel

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...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 58

Language : Hebrew

Broken Promise

On the eve of WWII, in the small Slovak town of Báncove, young Martin Friedmann-Petrasek has two main concerns: his Bar Mitzvah, and being scouted for a nationally-ranked football team. But larger fears loom for the Friedmann family and its nine children as the newly-formed Slovak state makes an alliance with Hitler. Martin's father senses the dangers ahead and struggles to keep the family together and safe, but one sibling after another is transported to Poland. Oblivious to these threats, Martin volunteers to go to to a work camp in Sered, where his friend has secured him a place on a football team. From here...

Director : Jiří Chlumský

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 129

Language : Russian, Slovak

Child Of The Forest

The Heritage Film Project presents Holocaust survivor Yona Bromberg as she recalls her early childhood in Rokitno, Poland.

Director : Eduardo Montes-Bradley

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 15

Language : English

He Who Saves One Life - Mar'ot project (Mirrors)

סרט תלמידים קצר אשר לקח חלק בפרוייקט "מראות", פרוייקט חינוכי ביוזמת ביה"ס ביד ושם להפקת סרטים קצרים בנושא השואה ע"י בני נוער בארץ המתקיים מדי שנה ומתמקד כל פעם בהיבט אחר של השואה ובאופן תפיסתה בחברה הישראלית. נושא הפרוייקט ב- 2008, השנה הראשונה לפרוייקט, היה "נשים בשואה". "המציל נפש אחת", נציג תיכון עירוני לאומנויות בת"א, מבוסס על סיפור אמיתי ועוסק בשמואל, צעיר יהודי המשרת בפלוגות התנגדות באזור מיוער בהונגריה ומנסה להציל 4 אחיות יהודיות במנוסה שהוא פוגש ביער.

Director : מטר אנגל

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 15

Language : Hungarian, Yiddish

Strayed

This drama takes place in the summer of 1940, at a time when France has fallen to the Nazis. The film deals with the issue of people’s relationships during the uncertain times of war. After the bombing of a refugee ship by German war planes, Odile, a young widow, and her two small children, escape into a nearby forest. There they meet Yvan, a resourceful shaven-headed young orphan. These four find shelter in an abandoned village house. In the absence of a father figure and in extraordinary times, the boundaries between adults and children are blurred and Odile, who before the war was a teacher, finds herself...

Director : André Téchiné

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 95

Language : French

Three Stories of Survivors who were Children During the Holocaust

Three stories of Yoram Israel Feldman, Miriam Raz and Pnina Talmi - survivors who were children during the Holocaust and managed to escape.

Director : Tobi Arbel

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 48

Language : Hebrew

קול נדרי - סיפורו של משה קפטן

סרט אנימציה קצר.

Director : שירה מישר

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

"חדשות 10"-ישראל תורן, הנער מעליית הגג.

כתבת טלווייזיה בחדשות ערוץ 10 מתאריך 6 בינואר 2019. ישראל תורן, הנער מעליית הגג, המפגש בין הילד היהודי שאומץ למשפחת האישה הפולנייה שהחביאה אותו.

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 7

Language : English, Hebrew

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