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לחצות את קווים: העולם ללא חוקים, בגידות, חוקי מלחמה

Red Cross activities during the Holocaust. The film includes testimonies of Theresienstadt survivors, as well as interviews with former Red Cross employees, including Dr. Maurice Rossel, who was part of the delegation that visited the camp in 1944, and took many photographs, which are in archive at Yad Vashem.

Director : Roger Mills, Jenny Morgan, Claire Collinson-Jones, Jane Dibblin

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 147

Language : English, French

To Freedom With The White Buses

Documentary film that tells about the operation for rescuing prisoners in the last months of the Second World War by the Swedish Red Cross, through testimonies, archival photographs, archival films and dramatic reconstructions.

Director : Gregor Nowinski

Duration : 40

Language : English

קו החיים - מחתרת תנועות הנוער בהונגריה

Documentary film about a group of Israeli survivors, natives of Hungary, who were members of the resistance underground and rescue organizations visiting Budapest and telling about their lives during the Nazi occupation. Includes archival films that document Budapest during the war and mainly during the German occupation.

Director : Galia Shiloah Everes

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 63

Language : Hebrew

Ghetto Theresienstadt - Deception And Reality

Through eyewitness testimony, paintings, photographs and archival films the film tells about the Theresienstadt Ghetto, "The Model Ghetto", which was established in the Czech fortressed city Terezin, around 60 kilometers north of Prague, and served during the years 1941-1945 as a transit camp for Jews, mostly Czechs, Germans, Austrians and Dutch, before their transport to the death camps in the east.

Director : Irmgard Von Zur Muehlen

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 78

Language : English, German

Stalag 17

ניסיונות הבריחה של שבויי מלחמה אמריקאים ממחנה שבויים גרמני במלחמת העולם ה-2, מעלים חרס כשנראה שכל פעם הגרמנים עולים על התוכניות שלהם ומסכלים את הניסיון. הקבוצה מתחילה לחשוד במרגל בקרבם ומתחיל מחול שדים לחשיפתו, במיוחד כשמגיע קצין בעל ערך שאסור שייפול בידי המודיעין הגרמני. כהרגלו, מגיש וויילדר דרמה משובצת הומור וציניות ומגיש מלחמה שהיא מפגן של אבסורד. וויליאם הולדן, המגלם את דמותו של הסמל ספטון שנחשד ע"י עמיתיו כחפרפרת, זכה בפרס האוסקר על תפקידו זה.

Director : Billy Wilder

Production Year : 1952

Duration : 115

Language : English, German, Italian, Spanish

Courage Against Nazi Teror - The Rescue of the Danish Jews

Using testimonies and archival footage, this Documentary Film presents the operation by the Danes to save the Jews and the national responsibility and unusual morality of the Danish people and their behavior.

Director : Per Schnell

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 45

Language : German

The Third Reich in Color 1937-1945

Collection of archival films in color that document the Third Reich in the years 1937 - 1945. Documents scenes of civilian life in Germany before the war and during the war, social events, official visits, senior figures in the Nazi leadership hierarchy.*

Director : Michael Kloft

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 100

Language : English

A Visitor from the Living

This documentary is made from out-takes from Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's 1985 documentary, and is based on an interview he conducted with Maurice Rossel in 1979. Rossel, a Swiss army officer in WWII, joined the International Red Cross in 1943 . In 1944 Rossel heads an inspection delegation of the Red Cross on a visit to Theresienstadt - the Nazis "model ghetto", which in reality was merely a prelude to death in the gas chambers.

Director : Claude Lanzmann

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 36

Language : French

כתבת רשת הטלוויזיה האמריקנית NBC על הודאת הצלב האדום הבינלאומי ב"כשל מוסרי" וידיעה על השמדת יהודים בזמן מלה"ע ה-2, 8.10.1997.

כתבת רשת הטלוויזיה האמריקנית NBC על הודאת הצלב האדום הבינלאומי ב"כשל מוסרי" וידיעה על השמדת יהודים בזמן מלה"ע ה-2, 8.10.1997. כולל ראיון עם יו"ר יד-ושם, אבנר שלו.

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 2

Language : English

German Newsreels no. 717 (31/5/44), 719 (14/6/44).

German Newsreel no. 717 (31 May, 1944): Mother's Day: Mothers visit children at a "Sending Children to the Country" camp; Styria District Party Director Uberreither awards a Mother's Honor Cross. Professor Moeller, a female oceanographer, takes water samples, then investigates them in a laboratory. In Krems, Austria, the 13th German Gymnastics Championship tournament. A welterweight boxing match between a German and a Dutchman sponsored by the Service for Troop Morale. Food distribution: newspaper ads for special food allotments; grocery store; warehouses and trucks; Reich Minister Backe. Seriously wounded...

Production Year : 1944

Duration : 35 39

Language : English, German

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