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This documentary was broadcasted in the Czech TV, based on the film "Alive from the Ashes". The film depicts the story of Avraham (Freidberg) Harshalom, born in Pruzany in Poland. At the age of 16, he was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. Avraham rebuilt his life in Czechoslovakia. After four years he immigrated to Israel. He served in the Israeli Air Force, raised a family and achieved success in an international industrial business venture. The film documents the journey that Harshalom took in the summer of 2004 with his children and grandchildren. Includes family photographs and...

Director : Itzik Kol

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 58

Language : Hebrew

The Star and His Shade

Director : Helmuth Bauer, Eike Schmitz

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 42

Language : German

Council of the Gods

Based on actual events, this DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, the state film monopoly in the East Germany throughout that country's history) drama tells the story of I.G. Farben, a colossal German industrial corporation that helped supply Hitler’s war effort and manufactured the gas used in the Nazi death chambers. Using Nuremberg Trial records, Council of the Gods deals with the complicity of big business on both sides of the conflict and of scientists whose research contributed to the deaths of millions.

Director : Kurt Maetzig

Production Year : 1950

Duration : 105

Language : German

The Final Victory - The Felix Zandman Story

This documentary tells the story of Dr. Felix Zandman, a Holocaust survivor who became a known physicist and industrialist whose inventions created a revaluation in the electronically component industry. Zandman was born in 1927 in Grodno, then Poland, and survived the Holocaust in a secret hiding he shared with his uncle and 3 other Jews for 17 months. During his hiding he was thought by his uncle, an engineer, mathematics and physics. After the war he went to France and studied physics and engineering. In the early 60s he moved to the United States and established Vishay co-operation. Some 39 patents are named...

Director : Haim Hecht

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 60

Language : English, Hebrew, Polish

Alive from the Ashes

This documentary depicts the story of Avraham (Freidberg) Harshalom, born in Pruzany in Poland. At the age of 16, he was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. Avraham rebuilt his life in Czechoslovakia. After four years he immigrated to Israel. He served in the Israeli Air Force, raised a family and achieved success in an international industrial business venture. in this film, Itzik Kol documents the journey that Harshalom took in the summer of 2004 with his children and grandchildren. Translated to 7 languages, this film includes family photographs and archival footage.

Director : Itzik Kol

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 58

Language : Hebrew

Extermination through Work - The Prisoners of the Concentration Camps: Slaves for the German Industry

on "Arbeitseinsaetze" Interview- Hadassah Modlinger,today YadVashem/Jerusalem,on personal experiences at Krupp and in A. Interview- Simon Gutter (Claims Conference),today N.Y.,on reparations and the interests of the German industry Interview- Bernhard Beitz (Krupp),today in Germany,on the reasons of reparations and why Non-Jews didn't get money Footages- liberation of a C.C. (US-Army)

Director : Lea Rosh

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 58

Language : English, German

Auschwitz – Liberation Without Freedom

סרט תיעודי קצר.

Duration : 21

Language : English

Dora kz des "Totalen Krieges"

Dora- Concentration

Director : Lorreta Walz

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 44

Language : English, German

Yehudit (Dita) and Yehuda Bronicki, founders of the Ormat alternative and renewable energy-technology group

שר החינוך נפתלי בנט העניק את פרס ישראל לתעשייה ליהודית ברוניצקי וליהודה ברוניצקי, מייסדי חברת אורמת: חברה העוסקת בהקמה ותפעול של תחנות כוח הפועלות על אנרגיה חלופית, בעיקר אנרגיה גאותרמית. בנט התייחס בדבריו לכך שיהודה הוא ניצול שואה.

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 6

Language : Hebrew