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This is a monodrama written by Shmuel Rafael and acted by Victor Attar. It tells the story of Albert Salvado, a traditional Greek Jew who lost his whole family in the Holocaust. His story exemplifies the stories of Ladino speaking Jews in the Holocaust. Salvado, his wife, and two daughters, were sent to Auschwitz in the Winter of 1943. In the camp he worked in the "Sonderkommandos" - a unit of prisoners who aided with the killing process. He witnessed the murder of his wife. Salvado survived the war, immigrated to Israel and in a modest one-room apartment in Tel-Aviv, re-enacts his life story starting from...

Director : Geula Yefet-Atar

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 66

Language : Hebrew, Ladino

Kupishok - Unto Each Name A Person

This documentary presents the August 1997 visit of a group of 13 people to Kupishok, Lithuania. They are searching for their family roots. During the group’s visit to the Kupishok Municipality the manager of the city archives discovers a list of 808 names of Jews from the city who were murdered by the Nazis and local collaborators in June 1941. The list was compiled due to the initiative of a non-Jewish midwife, Stefanija Glemzhaite, for reasons unknown. What is known however is that she later established a maternity hospital with money she won in the lottery. The discovery of the list lead to the creation...

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 64

Language : English

David - Stories About Honour and Shame

Documentary about Finnish Jews during WWII and their unique position as German allies.

Director : Taru Mäkelä

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 94

Language : Finnish, Swedish