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Benjamin, a teenage Holocaust survivor, arrives and settles in the youth's village Ben Shemen during the British mandat. He is assigned to school but the burden of his war experiences hinders his integration within the communal life and he refuses every communication and every group task. Although there is no food shortage in Ben Shemen, he hoards bread. His teachers decide to help him by making him one of the torchbearers in the Chanukah ceremony, but Benjamin remains alienated. An accidental encounter with a barbed wire fence enclosing cattle floods back his concentration camp memories and he digs up the...

Director : Helmar Lerski

Production Year : 1948

Duration : 44

Language : English

Exodus

Based on the acclaimed novel by Leon Uris (1958), this epic drama tells the story of "Exodus", an illegal immigration ship that became the symbol of the struggle for the right of free Jewish immigration into Palestine and the birth of the Jewish state. The story heightens the tensions between the British, the Arabs and the Jews of Palestine. "Exodus" was shot on location all over the Mediterranean and its cast includes many celebrated actors (Paul Newman, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo and Eva Marie Saint). The music by composer Ernest Gold won an Academy Award.

Director : Otto Preminger

Production Year : 1960

Duration : 107

Language : English

David

Based on the book by Joel Koenig, this film tells a survival story of a Jewish boy in Berlin during WWII. David, the son of a rabbi, is left alone after his family's deportation and goes underground. Through series of shifting circumstances he manages to survive in the war-torn city and immigrate to Palestine after the war. "Golden Bear", 1st prize at the Berlin Film Festival of 1979.

Director : Robert Markowitz

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 123

Language : German

Ich Bin Jude! Ich Bin Jude! Jewish Youth Movements' Resistance In Occupied France

The film recounts the resistance of Jewish youth movements in France during WWII, particularly the Jewish Scouts of France (EIF) and the Zionist Youth Movement (MJS), in response to German occupation and especially to the anti-Jewish laws and oppressions set in place by the occupant. They saved Jewish lives by thousands and then joined the French Resistance as distinct Jewish combat units. The entire story is told only by those who lived it. Filmed between 1997 and 2004, these interviews alone constitute a unique and irreplaceable archive.

Director : Nicole Bard, Barak Bard

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 53

Language : French

כפר הנוער הדתי בגולה דסק

This documentary film shows a meeting of the graduates of the religious Zionist youth village “Dasek” which took place 13th March 2004 to honor the significance of this educational establishment. “Dasek” was founded in 1945 in Budapest for young orphans and operated until their immigration to Israel in 1947. The film tells the story of “Dasek” and the people who founded and ran it.

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 43

Language : Hebrew

Gorlice

סרט תעודי העוסק בקהילה היהודית של גורליצה (Gorlice) וחורבנה בשואה והוא כולל תצלומים, עדוית ניצולים המספרים על זכרונותיהם מן החיים בעיירה לפני מלה"ע ה-2 ובזמן השואה וצילומים מגורליצה היום.

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 43

Language : Hebrew

באמונה ובתקווה - סיפורה של יהודית פרידמן

סרט תיעודי קצר.

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 15

Language : Hebrew

מחתרת תנועות הנוער הציוניות בהונגריה 1944 - מפעל ההצלה הגדול באירופה במלחמת העולם השניה, סיפורם של חברי תנועת "הנוער הציוני"

סרט תיעודי על מחתרת תנועות הנוער הציוניות בהונגריה 1944 שמביא את סיפורם של חברי תנועת "הנוער הציוני".

Director : בני ברזילי

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 46

Language : Hebrew