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A documentary. This is the story of the rescue of 717 children from occupied Poland and their grueling journey to Palestine (now Israel) in the winter of 1943. This unprecedented operation took the children, many without their parents, on a tortuous path that led them to distant lands, through Russia, Persia, Yamen and Egypt before they arrived safely in Palestine. For the Jewish settlement, the Children of Teheran were the first survivors of the Holocaust who attested to the horrors of war-torn Europe. Some of these survivors testify in this movie and there are archive photographs and footage.

Director : Yehuda Kaveh

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 63

Language : Hebrew

Children Must Laugh

This pre-war documentary is one of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before WWII. Made by the Jewish Labor movement in Poland this institutional film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium, which stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment. The sanatorium’s theme song, "Mir Kumen On" (Here We Come), punctuates the film with a sense of hope and accomplishment.

Director : Alexander Ford

Production Year : 1936

Duration : 94

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Last Journey Into Silence

Filmed at the Shaar Menashe Hospital in Israel, this heartbreaking film examines the plight of elderly Holocaust survivors whose war-time experiences have left them unable to find inner peace. Abandoned by their families, Iosefina, Hana and Fira - the three patients featured - have spent the last few decades in this hospital, and the film combines an account of their daily routines and lives with the painful journey faced by their respective daughters as they visit their mothers and try to bring them back to family life.

Director : Shosh Shlam

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 52

Language : Hebrew

German Newsreels no. 753 (5/3/45), 754 (16/3/45), 755 (22/3/45).

German Newsreel no. 753 (5 March, 1945): German Ambassador in Stockholm congratulates Swedish explorer Sven Hedin on his 80th birthday. Reich Labor Service Leader Hierl speaks with Labor Service Women and decorates Labor Service officer. Colonel Rudel interviewed in hospital (synchronous sound). In Berlin, Volkssturm and civilians build defensive installations. Submarine with snorkel sinks ship. Western Front: positions on the Rur (Roer); from the ruins of houses, mortars and other artillery fire; near Juelich, infantry and paratroopers counterattack. First pictures of soldiers after breaking out of...

Production Year : 1945

Duration : 37 38

Language : German

Healing by Killing

Documentary film that deals with the place of the medical system in Nazi Germany in the extermination apparatus. Filmed in Germany, Austria, Poland, and Russia, the film includes archival photographs, expert commentary, interviews with survivors of euthanasia operations and present-day photographs of locations where the events took place.

Director : Nitsan Aviram

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 90

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 639 (2/12/42), 640 (10/12/42), 642 (21/12/42).

Newsreel no. 639 (2 December, 1942): Training in German submarine schools, including classroom work, simulations exercises, and work with models. Homecoming at a U-boat base with Admiral Doenitz in attendance. On the French Mediterranean - view of Marseilles; Axis infantry, air power, and artillery gourd the coast after French officers intentionally scuttled part of the French fleet in an attempt to deliver the fleet and Toulon harbor to the Allies. A German-Italian convoy brings vehicles, mail, and supplies to Tunisia. German and Italian planes attack the British-American fleet near Algiers with torpedoes...

Production Year : 1942

Duration : 57 69

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 586 (26/11/41), 588 (10/12/41).

Newsreel No. 586 (26 November, 1941): State funeral of Ernst Udet, Chief Air Inspector General of the Luftwaffe; Hitler consoles Udet's Mother; Goering marches behind the coffin; Udet's grave next to Richthofen, WWI hero. Hitler walks with Alfred Rosenberg. Reindeers in the north - helpers of German and Finnish troops; supply convoys pass through the snow. Heavy artillery pounds strategic targets in Leningrad. A former Soviet fur factory produces coats for German soldiers. Important rail junction of Tikhvin captured by German troops. Deep frost impedes the advance to Moscow. Captured weapon plants in...

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 52 54

Language : English, German

Science and the Swastika - The Deadly Experiment

Episode in the series about medicine and science in Nazi Germany. This episode deals with mercy killings and medical experiments. From 1933 onwards doctors in Germany were dealing with issues of mercy killings in order to create a superior race. Mental patients from all over Germany were brought to centers and their organs were collected for research purposes. Doctors lied to the patients about what would happen and after their death, informed the families that they had died from other maladies. These same doctors later worked in the concentration camps in Poland and continued their experiments on prisoners....

Director : Saskia Baron

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 50 52

Language : English

Medicine In The Kovno Ghetto

A lecture by Dr. Jack Brauns on the topic of medicine in the Kovno Ghetto. The film is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Moses Brauns (1896-1982) the father of Dr. Brauns, a physician and historian in the Kovno Ghetto. An introduction by historian Martin Gilbert."

Director : Jeff Goldschen

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 24 25

Language : English

Soviet Paradise

Along with documenting the land battles of the eastern front, German army cameraman documented the lives of Russian citizens as well. This original Nazi propaganda footage was presented as true documentation of life in Russia after more than twenty years of the "Jewish-Bolshevik reign of terror". After manipulative editing by Nazi propagandists, a gloomy picture of the Soviet "paradise" is depicted.

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 15

Language : German

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