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Uniform Shell Cocoon - Military service in Israel

Documentary. Like in no other country in the world, living in Israel is threatened by permanent, mostly militant conflicts with the surrounding countries. This documentary shows the implications resulting for both young Israeli men and women: The military service requires an abrupt growing up because of the confrontation with great responsibility, violence and death. Four young Israelis report of their experiences, showing how interwoven military and “normality” are in Israel. Thereby, an insight is given on the complex and sometimes ambivalent perception of the young Israelis of this formative time of their...

Director : Nina Bittcher, Jean-Philipp Baeck

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 52

Language : English, German

My Lodz No Longer Exists - The story of Yosef Neuhaus

Summary: Documentary film. This film chronicles the Jewish community in Lodz, Poland, through the story of Yosef Neuhaus. Yosef was born in Lodz in 1924, to Tova-Yona and Zvi Hirsch. In May 1940, he was forced to enter the Lodz ghetto along with his parents and younger sister Zofia, where they lived for four years until their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau. All of Yosef’s family members were murdered in that camp. Yosef survived and was then imprisoned in several other camps. In...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 41

Language : Hebrew

The Phoenixes

Summary: A documentary. The film presents the stories of seven Holocaust survivors and their various contributions to the state of Israel in various areas of life. Among the participants in the film are: Prof. Andre Hajdu - Israel Prize laureate in music. Moshe Zanbar – former Governor of the Bank of Israel. Yitzhak Arad - a retired Chief of Education Officer in the Israeli army and one of the founders of Yad Vashem. In the film, there is footage of visits to the Museum at Latroun, and to Yad Vashem.

Director : מיכה שגריר

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 52

Language : Hebrew

Pursuit aka Twist of Fate

A two-part miniseries about an SS-Lieutenant Colonel Helmut Von Schreader who, in the waning days of the Third Reich, undergoes plastic surgery and becomes a concentration-camp prisoner to avoid prosecution as a war criminal. In an ironic twist of fate, he is shipped to the wrong camp and forced to live with those he has victimized, where he learns to respect them. After the war, he becomes involved in the founding of Israel, marries and fathers a son, who eventually stumbles across his identity 20 years later.

Director : Ian Sharp

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 177

Language : English

Altalena

The documentary tells the story of Altalena, an Etzel Hagana ship which Hagana men blew up on June 22th, 1948 at Tel-Aviv beach. Three of the founding fathers of Israel were involved in this event: David Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Rabin. Why did Ben-Gurion instruct Israeli soldiers to open fire? Why did Yitzhak Rabin call this day "the blackest day in my life?" The film follows the journey of the Altalena from its departure from the port in France, with 930 man, many of which Holocaust survivors, and ammunition on board.

Director : Ilana Tsur

Production Year : 1994

Language : Hebrew

Quarter to Eight - Story of Motty Hod

Documentary film about Mordechai (Motti) Hod (Fein) (1926-2003), the seventh Commander-in-Chief of the Israeli Airforce. Hod was born in Kibbutz Degania. In 1944, at the height of the Second World War, Hod volunteered to serve in the British Army in a transportation unit that assisted the Jewish Brigade on the Italian front. In 1946, Hod joined the "Palmach", (the special strike force of the "Haganah"), and was sent to Europe by the "Haganah" to aid in "illegal immigration" operations (the transportation of holocaust survivors to Palestine by sea in violation of British policies which had virtually closed...

Director : Jakov Sedlar, Dominik Sedlar

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 58

Language : English, Hebrew

Attack on the Liberty

Documentary about the Israeli attack on a US spyship USS Liberty during the 1967 Six Day War. It looks into claims that the attack was pre-meditated and not a tragic mistake as claimed by the Israeli government.

Director : Rex Bloomstein

Production Year : 1987

Language : English

טיסה אחת בשבילנו

סרט תעודי העוסק במטס המיוחד של מטוסי חיל האוויר הישראלי שנערך ב-26/01/05, בסמוך לציון 60 שנה לשחרור מחנה אושוויץ ובהתייחסות בנות הברית בזמן המלחמה כלפי מחנות ההשמדה. הסרט טוען כי מדינות בנות הברית לדעת על המתרחש בשואה, היו מודעות לזוועות באושוויץ, ולמרות שיכלו פעמים רבות למנוע מותם של רבים ע"י הפצצה אווירית, לא עשו דבר. לצד זה, מתאר חיים הכט, יוצר הסרט, גם את סיפור מטס חיל האוויר הישראלי הסמלי מעל אושוויץ ב-2003 ובוחן את מסלול הטיסה שהיה דומה לכל אחת מ-1417 הגיחות של מטוסי קרב אמריקנים ובריטים שעברו מעל אושוויץ. "אנו טייסי חיל האוויר האוויר הישראלי, בשמי מחנה הזוועות, קמנו מאפר מיליוני הקורבנות, נושאים...

Director : Haim Hecht

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 55 60

Language : Hebrew

Maria's World

סרט תיעודי. הסרט מספר על סרט דוקומנטרי על תרצה קשפיצקי ניצולת שואה שחיה בזמן מלחמת העולם השנייה בזהות בדויה כנוצרייה בלבוב ובקראקוב. לאחר המלחמה עלתה לישראל דרך מחנה המעצר בקפריסין, התגייסה לצה"ל במלחמת העצמאות וכיום מרצה בפני תלמידים וחיילים על קורותיה בשואה. הסרט מתלווה אליה ליום בו היא מספרת את סיפורה בפני חיילי צה"ל ובמקביל מספרת לבמאי בפולנית על קורותיה. בסרט משולבים קטעי ארכיון בשחור לבן מהתקופות השונות.

Director : Michał Bukojemski

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 28

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Rudolf Hess - The Man Who Died Twice

Based on archival footages, this six parts series follows the creation Israel and its development from the rise of Zionism through the Holocaust, War of Independence, Jewish immigration, developments in the 1950s and 60s, Six Days War, diplomatic international front, Yom Kippur War and Camp David Accords to Oslo Agreements. It also details the major battles and the rise of the young state's statesmen, including the first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. Among those featured are U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Richard Nixon, key leaders Winston Churchill, Anwar Sadat, David Ben-Gurion, Shimon Peres, Golda Meir,...

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 120

Language : English

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