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A Day In The Warsaw Ghetto - A Birthday Trip In Hell

A documentary film. At the outbreak of World War II, 380,000 Jews lived in Warsaw, about a third of the city's population. In the fall of 1940, the the Germans transferred them to the ghetto. On November 19, 1982, Günther Schwarberg, the editor of the German magazine "Der Stern" was invited to the home of an 84-year-old man, from whom he received a yellowing envelope with 140 negatives of photos he had taken 41 years earlier, during World War II. This man was Heinz Jost. who took pictures at the ghetto . The film combines archive footage, photographs by Joest, and excerpts from the diaries of Emmanuel...

Director : Jack Kuper

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 30

Language : English

Goodbye Holland - The Extermination of the Dutch Jewry, part 2 אוסף סרטי ווילי לינדוור - להתראות הולנד השמדת יהדות הולנד, חלק 2- עדיין לא נלמד דבר

חלקו הראשון של סרט תעודי העוסק בשיתוף הפעולה עם הגרמנים בהולנד וחושף צד אפל של הולנד בזמן הכיבוש הנאצי. הסרט מציג תפיסה לפיה גירוש יהודי הולנד התאפשר גם בזכות שיתוף פעולה מצדם של פקידי ממשל הולנדים שהסתייעו במלשינים. במאי הסרט, ווילי לינדוור, מספר פה את סיפורם האישי של דודו ודודתו שהתחבאו בדירת מסתור בכפר המזרחי וארסוואלד (Varsseveld) אך הוסגרו לרשויות ע"י משפחה הולנדית שחמדה את דירת המסתור וקיבלה 75 גילדן תמורת המידע. דודו ודודתו של לינדוור גורשו לאושוויץ שם ניספו. מתחקיר שעשה לינדוור הוא גילה כי המלשינים והשוטרים שביצעו את המעצר שעצרו את המסתתרים, היו הולנדים. כמו כן, הסרט עוסק בתקופת השחרור, אנטישמיות לאחר...

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 52

Language : Dutch

Pillar of Fire, Part 5 - Holocaust 1939 - 1945

Produced by the Israeli Television, this documentary series deals with the history of Zionism till the establishment of the State of Israel. First episode of this 4-years complicated production aired in 1981 and created a public stir and controversy regarding the presentation of the Sephardim Jewry contribution to the Zionist movement. “Pillar of Fire” us based on archival films and photos takes from 30 archives, both in Israel and abroad, interviews and illustrations. This short 7-episodes version of the series was produced for foreign markets. Narration by British actor Ian MacCellen

Director : Asher De Bentolila Tlalim

Production Year : 1986

Language : English

Goodbye Holland - The Extermination of the Dutch Jewry, part 1 אוסף סרטי ווילי לינדוור - השמדת יהדות הולנד, חלק 1-ההסגרה

The first part of this documentary deals with the issue of collaboration with Germans in Holland and reveals a dark side of Holland during the time of the Nazi occupation. This film deals with the issue of the expulsion of Dutch Jewry that was made possible both because of the collaboration of Dutch government officials as well as the assistance of informers. The director of the film, Willy Lindwer, tells the personal stories of his aunt and uncle who hid in an apartment in the village Varsseveld but were turned over to the authorities by a Dutch family who wanted the apartment for themselves. This family...

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 90

Language : Dutch

Warsaw Ghetto - German Occupied Poland, 1942 - edited version

Excerpts from archival films that document the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942.

Production Year : 1942

Duration : 32

Kovno Ghetto - A Buried History

Documentary film that deals with the Kovno/Kaunas ghetto. The film is presented by historian Martin Gilbert and it includes archival films, expert analysis and testimony of survivors.

Director : Herb Krosney

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 77

Language : English, Hebrew