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It a play based on real life of Anne Frank. She painfully recounts her memories about capture in the Attic, from the time when the SS came over her until her death in Bergen Belsen.

Director : Jane Celeste Guberfain, Gedivan De Albuquerque, Gláucia Flores Y Reyes

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 57

Language : German, Portuguese

The Lost Love Diaries

On the morning of her wedding day, Ellis receives a package in the mail. It contains a diary kept by the first love of her life, Bernie, during his time underground in World War II. When Bernie did not return, Ellis married another man and moved with him to Palestine. She kept the diary hidden for 65 years until her historian daughter prevailed upon her to read it and try to find out what happened to Bernie. This gripping documentary is a combination detective story and love saga.

Director : יסמין נובק

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 54

Language : Dutch, English, Hebrew

A Day In The Warsaw Ghetto - A Birthday Trip In Hell

A documentary film. At the outbreak of World War II, 380,000 Jews lived in Warsaw, about a third of the city's population. In the fall of 1940, the the Germans transferred them to the ghetto. On November 19, 1982, Günther Schwarberg, the editor of the German magazine "Der Stern" was invited to the home of an 84-year-old man, from whom he received a yellowing envelope with 140 negatives of photos he had taken 41 years earlier, during World War II. This man was Heinz Jost. who took pictures at the ghetto . The film combines archive footage, photographs by Joest, and excerpts from the diaries of Emmanuel...

Director : Jack Kuper

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 30

Language : English

My Heaven is Full of Music - The Israeli Composer Ella Milch-Sheriff

סרט תיעודי על מלחינה ישראלית אלה מילך-שריף, עם דגש מיוחד על האופרה שלה "שתיקתו של ברוך" שמבוססת על יומנים של אביה, ניצול שואה, ברוך מילך.

Director : Aneta Panek

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 29

Language : German

Yizkor

Short animated students' film. Years after her grandparents have died, the filmmaker discovers her grand-mother’s memoir revealing their experiences during the holocaust. The story of a woman’s struggle to keep herself and her children alive in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The film uses director's grandmother’s own words, along with animation, archival material and present-day Super 8 footage, to tell that story, one of survival and resilience in the face of crushing loss.

Director : Ruth Fertig

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 23

Language : English

Interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman

Short interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman,, wife of artist and Holocaust survivor David Friedmann. Friedman was an accomplished artist before World War II and the Holocaust. In October 1941, he was deported from Prague to the Lodz Ghetto, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and to Gleiwitz I. He survived a death march to Blechhammer concentration camp., Oberschlesien, where he was liberated January 25, 1945 by Soviet troops. In 1949, he fled Communist Czechoslovakia to Israel and later immigrated to the United States. Also in this report interview with Muriel Nezhnie-Helfman, (1934-2002) is best known for her...

Director : Kathy Corley

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 8

Language : English

Interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman

Interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman, wife of artist and holocaust survivor David Friedmann. Dav. Friedmann a.k.a. David Friedman was an accomplished artist before World War II and the Holocaust. In October 1941, he was deported from Prague to the Lodz Ghetto, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Gleiwitz I. He survived a Death March to Concentration Camp Blechhammer, Oberschlesien where he was liberated January 25, 1945 by Soviet troops. In 1949, he fled Communist Czechoslovakia to Israel and later immigrated to the United States.

Director : Kathy Corley

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 113

Language : English

Schtonk! - The film about the Führer's Book

Based on actual news story that took place in Germany in the early 80s, this comic satire tells of Fritz, a life-long forger of Nazi memorabilia and Herrmann, a journalist who works for a tabloid-style magazine, who run into each other and fabricate a story of "Hitler's Diaries," a con that would acquire headlines for the journalist and cash for the forger. Best foreign language film nominee at the 1993 Academy Award.

Director : Helmut Dietl

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 90

Language : German

The Diary of Anne Frank - A Book Full of Dreams

Docu-drama that deals with the diary of Anne Frank through incorporation of archival films, dramatic reconstructions of the scenes in the secret hiding place in the office building in Amsterdam and documenting youth visiting the Anne Frank House today.

Director : Fritz Leentvaar

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 25

Language : Danish

The World Was Ours - The Jewish Legacy of Vilna

This documentary looks at pre-war Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania) the former home of 60,000 Jews and the once thriving centre of Yiddish culture, the birthplace of Zionism and of the socialist Jewish Bund organization. The film focuses on the systematic extermination of Wilno'ss Jewish population. Narrated by Hollywood’s Mandy Patinkin.

Director : Mira Jedwabnik-Van Doren

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 60

Language : English

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