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When Canada Said No - The Abandoned Jews of the MS St. Louis

Documentary that revisits the MS St. Louis incident through the testimony of survivors and witnesses and the findings of eminent historians, and using original footage and documentation. This short film reveals why our government acted the way it did, and helps us understand what led to a refusal that casts a dark shadow on Canada’s humanitarian record.

Director : Nobu Adilman

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 17

Language : English

About Face - The Story of the Jewish Refugee Soldiers of World War II About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces

Documents the as-yet-untold World War II story of young Jewish men who escaped certain danger at the hands of the Nazis and returned to fight them in Europe and North Africa. Told through the eyes of these men, the film chronicles the journey from Nazi victim to refugee and, finally, to Allied soldier.

Director : Steve Karras, Rose Lizarraga

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 94

Language : English

Around Town with Howard Kaye - The Voyage of Damned

תוכנית טלויזיה שמוקדשת לאירוע הטרגי שארע במאי 1939, כאשר פליטים יהודיים שהפליגו מהמבורג (Hamburg) באוניה St. Louis נאלצו לחזור לאירופה כיוון שארה"ב סגרה בפניהם את שעריה.

Director : Jose Flores

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 27

Language : English

Aristides de Sousa Mendes O' Consul Injusticado, Righteous Gentle

Based on archival materials and testimonies, this TV documentary tells the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885-1954), a Portuguese diplomat in Bordeaux, France, who fought against his own government for the safety of Jewish refugees soon after the fall of France. During 16-23/6/40, he issued Portuguese visas free of charge, to over 30,000 refugees seeking to escape the Nazi terror, 12,000 of who were Jews. The Portuguese government ordered his immediate recall to Lisbon and he was dismissed with all his retirement pensions suspended. With 13 children, and no other means at his disposal, Sousa Mendes sank...

Director : Olga Teresa

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 56

Language : English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese

Milosh

The story about Milos Orel, who at the age 15 together with his family were deported from their family home in Slovenia to a Croatian concentration camp during WWII.

Director : Vesna Orel

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 43

Language : Serbian-Croatian, Slovenian

Finding Family

Henry Blumenstein was a child in 1939 when, after fleeing Nazioccupied Austria, his family gained passage with other Jewish refugees on the St. Louis.When the ship was abruptly refused entry by Cuba and sent back to Europe, the family found its way to Amsterdam. Henry’s mother placed him in hiding with the Dijkstras, a poor Catholic Dutch family, shortly before she was captured and sent to Auschwitz. This documentary follows Henry back to Holland as he visits the Amsterdam house and the rural farm where he lived, as well as his school and the Catholic church where he was an altar boy.During this...

Director : Jeff Hirsh, Jeff Barnhill

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 59

Language : English

We Live Again!

Among the first movies to deal with the subject of the Holocaust, this documentary about Jewish war orphans opened in New York in September 1948 and has rarely been seen since. According to film critic Jim Hoberman, the film was modeled on Children Must Laugh (Mir Kumen On, 1935), a pre-war Yiddish-language picture about Jewish orphans. The film incorporates newsreels, actual footage of children receiving aid from relief agencies, and a few staged sequences.

Director : M. Bahelfer, O. Fessler, A. Hamza

Production Year : 1946

Duration : 38

Language : French, Yiddish

The Last Refuge

Upon learning of Hitler's plans for the "Final Solution," millions of European Jews sought refuge all over the world, only to be turned away nearly everywhere they went. Shanghai, at the time under Japanese occupation, welcomed some 18,000 Jewish refugees. The incredible experiences of those who lost their lives and those who survived hardships to see their final liberation are revealed in the telling of this uniquely significant chapter of World War II history.

Director : Xiao Hong Cheng

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 50

Language : Chinese

In Vienna They Put You in Jail: Max Birnbach Story

The remarkable story of Max Birnbach trace his imprisonment by the Nazis' a dramatic escape to Switzerland, the desperate efforts to save his parents and monumentous meeting that enabled his emigration to America סיפורו של מקס בירנבך מתחקה אחר מאסרו על ידי נאצים, בריחתו הדרמטית לשוויץ, מאמציו הנואשים להגן על הוריו ופגישה מקרית שאפשרה את הצלתו הגירתו לאמריקה סיפורו של מקס בירנבך מתחקה אחר מאסרו על ידי נאצים, בריחתו הדרמטית לשוויץ, מאמציו הנואשים להגן על הוריו ופגישה מקרית שאפשרה את הצלתו הגירתו לאמריקה

Director : Cheryl Blaylock

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 52

Language : English, German

Exodus 1947

This documentary examines the history and impact of the Exodus 1947, the ship that tried to run the British blockade of Palestine. Crewed by former Jewish-American GIs, the ship took on a cargo of Holocaust survivors in France and headed for Palestine in the summer of 1947. After a battle on the high seas with the British, the illegal immigrants were sent back to DP camps in the British Zone of Germany. The newsreel and print media seized upon the Exodus 1947 as a symbol of the Jewish struggle for statehood. This aborted voyage evoked international support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine....

Director : Elizabeth Rodgers, Robby Henson

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 60

Language : English

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