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This is a documentary on the life and death of an exceptional man. S. A. Zygielbojm, an important member of Poland's Jewish community, was smuggled out of the country in 1942 and sent abroad as the Jewish representative of the Polish government-in-exile to spread word of the Nazi atrocities in Poland. Ultimately deeming his efforts futile, Zygielbojm committed suicide after the Warsaw ghetto uprising in an attempt to shock the world out of its indifference. The film won Golden Hobby-Horse of Cracow - Special Mention at Krakow Film Festival 2001 Participants: Reuven Zygielbojm, Jan Karski, Marek...

Director : Dzamila Ankiewicz

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 52

Language : Polish

Resistance - They Fought Back

A documentary. Focused on the resistance of Jews to the Nazi regime and its plan to exterminate European Jewry, this documentary is designed to illuminate an all-too-unknown aspect of the conventional Holocaust story. The film's goal is a corrective to the dominant narrative of the Holocaust, one in which Jewish victims quietly went to their fate "like sheep to the slaughter." To the contrary, there were more than ninety armed rebellions in ghettos and concentration camps, thousands of Jewish partisans fighting in the forests, as well as countless examples of non-violent resistance against the Nazis. The...

Director : Kirk Wolfinger, Paula Apsell

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 96

Language : English, Hebrew, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish

שעה עולמית - כאן ב , 15.5.2021 - תצוגת גטו ורשה ביד ושם אורגנה בכל הקשור למרד

שידורי רדיו. כתבה ששודרה במסגרת התוכנית "שבת עולמית, של תאגיד השידור "כאן" בתאריך 15.5.21.

Production Year : 2021

Language : Hebrew

Remember Them All?

סרט תיעודי.

Director : יובל חיימוביץ'-זוסר, שמעון שכטר

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 60

We have never given up struggling we have never cursed life!

סרט תיעודי קצר על גטו ורשה ועל מרד גטו ורשה.

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 23

Language : Italian

30 Years Anniversary to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

תוכנית הטל' הישראלית לציון 30 שנה למרד גטו וורשה. ראיונות עם לוחמים ופרטיזנים.

Director : ישראל חברוני

Production Year : 1973

Duration : 51

Language : Hebrew

Beitar

A documentary. It tells the story of thew Jewish movement of "Betar". It was active in Poland from the mid-1920s until the outbreak of WWII in 1939. Founded by Ze'ev Zabotynski in 1922, it aimed at instilling patriotism in generations of young Jews and readying them to fight for a Jewish state. Before WWII the organization was lead in Poland by Menachem Begin, the future Prime Minister of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. The film features interviews with the last living members of Betar, in Israel.

Director : Robert Kaczmarek

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 54

Language : Polish