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Hitler's Assistants – Dönitz the Successor

Documentary film that deals with Admiral Karl Doenitz (1891-1980), commander of Hitler's fleet (Grossadmiral).

Director : Guido Knopp

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 40 42

Language : German

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

Waves of Freedom

Recruited in 1947 by the Haganah to break the British naval blockade of Palestine, Paul Kaye and twenty-five other American recruits set sail in a dilapidated ship, “The Tradewinds,” from Baltimore to Palestine. Along the way, they picked up 1,500 displaced persons in Italy in the dead of night, and engaged in a naval battle with three British warships. And that is just the beginning of their astounding true story, upon which the award-winning novel and film Exodus was based. Through poignant, insightful, colorful and sometimes humorous interviews, interspersed with historic footage, the filmdocuments the...

Director : אלן רוזנטל

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 53

Language : English, Hebrew

The Darien Dilemma

סרט תעודי העוסק בסיפורם של כ- 1,000 יהודים שהמתינו ב- 1941 על גדות נהר הדנובה בוינה לאונייה שתיקח אותם לא"י בזמן שכל אפשרות אחרת משמעותה עבורם היתה מוות. ניצולים מאותה קבוצה שהצליחו להגיע ארצה מספרים פה את סיפוריהם. עדויותיהם שזורות בקטעי שיחזור דרמתי בשחור לבן המתארים את מאמציה של רות קליגר, צעירה פעילה במוסד לעלייה ב' (השחקנית רות קלדרון), למצוא אונייה ולהספיק להעלות אליה את האנשים הממתינים. הסרט מתאר את מאמציה לשכנע את יהודי אירופה לברוח, ובמקביל את מאמציה למצוא עבורם נתיבי בריחה. "דילמת הדריין" היא הדילמה העומדת בפני קליגר ועמיתיה, כשנודע להם שמנהיגי היישוב הורו למכור לבריטים את ה"דריין", האונייה היחידה...

Director : ארז לאופר

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 90

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 1996 - Miriam Hirschler

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 1996. Torchlighter Miriam Hirschler. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 30

Language : Hebrew

Kedma

Drama that deals with the "Kedma" an old illegal immigration ship that arrives in the beginning of May 1948 to the Palestinian sea coast while on board hundreds of Holocaust survivors crowd together.*

Director : Amos Gitai

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 95

Language : Hebrew

The Green Dumpster Mystery

A documentary film . While traveling on his scooter through south Tel Aviv, Tal suddenly noticed an old photograph inside a green dumpster. Upon removing it from the container, he noticed that underneath were additional ones, as well as a couple of documents. He took the findings home and “Googled” the names of the people mentioned in the documents. He could only find reference to one of the documents, so to trace the others he had to implement a quite a detective work. Tal discovered tragic family history beginning in Łodz, Poland, transverse a Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, the Warsaw Ghetto...

Director : טל חיים יופה

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 50

Language : Hebrew

Return to Hell - The Drama of the "Exodus"

Through eyewitness accounts and archival photographs, this documentary depicts the story of the “Exodus”, the ship that became a symbol of the struggle for the right to immigrate to the land of Israel. Approximately 4,500 Jewish refugees boarded the “Exodus” July 11th 1947, a ship that was purchased by the Mossad for Aliya Bet. In cramped conditions and shortages in supplies, the ship left the port in Southern France. During the voyage the name of the ship was changed to “Exit Europe 1947”.

Director : Dietmar Schulz

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 45

Language : German

The Seventh Million - Special Broadcast - Studio discussion about the Holocaust, 1995

"המיליון השביעי, משדר מיוחד" - דיון אולפן על השואה, 1995. משתתפים: משה צימרמן, חיים גורי, מיכאל גלעד, זאב שטרנהל, אורנה בן-דור, חיים דסברג. ראה גם: V-1142/2

Director : יעקב אסל

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 20

The Seventh Million - The Israelis and the Shoah, Part 2.

Based on his book of the same name by Tom Segev, this second part of a ZDF, ARTE and Israel Channel 1 co-production deals with the issue of Israelis and the Holocaust; the attitude of the Jewish establishment towards the Holocaust survivors. The turnabout during the Eichmann Trial and the Holocaust as a constituent part of the Israeli identity. DP camps, the illegal immigration, Aba Kovner, Ben-Gurion, the reparations agreement, Eichmann Trial, Chancellor Adenauer, Yad Vashem, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Holocaust remembrance day, the Israeli youth and the Holocaust, remembrance ceremonies, author K. Zetnik (Yechiel...

Director : יעקב אסל

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 20

Language : Hebrew

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