Victor Martin's mission tells a unique adventure. October 1942, Victor Martin is sent in Germany by the Belgian resistance, so he can see with his own eyes where the deportation trains bring the Jews. His mission would lead him to the doors of Auschwitz. The film was made like a historical road-movie, mixing original drawings, archives, and new testimonies.
A feature. In May 1943, Szmul Zygielbojm, a member of the Polish government-in-exile, commits suicide in London. His action leads young British journalist Adam to follow the coroner’s investigation, revealing the significance of Zygielbojm’s mission in Great Britain: to convince the indifferent Allies to intervene in the Holocaust being perpetrated by Nazi Germany in Europe. An account of a true historical tragedy.
Documentary film that deals with the absence of world reaction to news about the methodical murder of Jews in Europe. Through archival films, photographs, and testimonies the attempts to influence the policies of allied countries to act on behalf of the Jews, and the lack of reaction of these countries which did not initiate rescue action are described.
"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
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...
Based on his book of the same name by Tom Segev, this first part of a ZDF, ARTE and Israel Channel 1 co-production deals with the issue of Israelis and the Holocaust, both at that time and afterwards; The information of the murder of European Jews; the attempts of rescue Jews for money; the Jewish Brigade and the Israeli paratroopers; illegal immigrant ships; Children of Tehran; scenes of liberation of the camps; excerpts from the performance “Kastner” by Motti Lerner; “The March of the Living”. After the airing of Part 1, a studio discussion led by Dan Margalit, with Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Prof. Dina Porat, Rabbi...
A mono-drama. The story of Yan Karski. He stated that all he can says is that he saw it, and it was the truth. Karski was a reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness. After surviving the Blitzkrieg, Karski swor allegiance to the Polish Underground and risked his life to carry the first eyewitness reports of war-torn Poland to the Western world, and ultimately, the Oval Office. Karski ecaped a Gestapo prison, and beared witness to the despair of the Warsaw ghetto and confronted by the inhumanity of a death camp, Karski endured mental anguish and physical torture to stand tall in the halls of power and...
סרט קצר מתוך סדרה. הפרק השני: שאול שפילמן מספר על גירושו עם הוריו מביתו בוינה לגטו טרזינשטאט בצ'כוסלובקיה, בשנת 1942. הנאצים עשו תעמולה למשלחת הצלב האדום שהגיעה לבקר במחנה. לשם כך, הם הקימו קבוצות כדורגל ושאול הצטרף לאחת הקבוצות. אביו היה אחד מחברי 'ועדת הבריחה' שניסתה להבריח שישה צעירים אשר יפיצו את ההשמדה של העם היהודי בידי הנאצים. מעורבותו של אביו של שאול התגלתה לנאצים ומשום כך גורשה כל המשפחה בטרנספורט באמצע נובמבר 1943 לאושוויץ. שאול מספר על קורותיו במחנה ועל צעדת המוות ועל השחרור.