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מסדר עולמי - ראיון עם אמנית וידאו ארט מיכל רובנר

ראיון עם אמנית וידאו ארט מיכל רובנר על מיצג הוידאו ארט "נוף חיים" מאת האמנית מיכל רובנר ומוצג דרך קבע במוזיאון יד ושם החדש. היצירה המבוססת על חומר מקורי משוחזר המתעד את חיי היום יום של יהודים במקומות שונים באירופה לפני השואה מוקרנת על קיר של 13 מטר המהווה את המשולש המזרחי של מבנה המוזאון.

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 4

Language : Hebrew

Arthur Szyk - Soldier in Art

This film documents the introduction of the artist, activist, and World War II political caricaturist Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) to a group of students and teachers at Mercer Island High School in Seattle, Washington. Irvin Ungar, curator of The Arthur Szyk Society, encourages the students to share their reaction to work that is as vivid, profound, and worthy of discussion today as it was when it was created.

Director : James Ruxin

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 15

Language : English

Interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman

Short interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman,, wife of artist and Holocaust survivor David Friedmann. Friedman was an accomplished artist before World War II and the Holocaust. In October 1941, he was deported from Prague to the Lodz Ghetto, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and to Gleiwitz I. He survived a death march to Blechhammer concentration camp., Oberschlesien, where he was liberated January 25, 1945 by Soviet troops. In 1949, he fled Communist Czechoslovakia to Israel and later immigrated to the United States. Also in this report interview with Muriel Nezhnie-Helfman, (1934-2002) is best known for her...

Director : Kathy Corley

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 8

Language : English

Interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman

Interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman, wife of artist and holocaust survivor David Friedmann. Dav. Friedmann a.k.a. David Friedman was an accomplished artist before World War II and the Holocaust. In October 1941, he was deported from Prague to the Lodz Ghetto, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Gleiwitz I. He survived a Death March to Concentration Camp Blechhammer, Oberschlesien where he was liberated January 25, 1945 by Soviet troops. In 1949, he fled Communist Czechoslovakia to Israel and later immigrated to the United States.

Director : Kathy Corley

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 113

Language : English

Remembrance is the Secret of Redemption - A Living Testimony by the Artist Esther Lurie

ההיסטוריה של העיר קובנה (ליטא), במשך 40 השנים האחרונות, וגטו קובנה מנקודת ראותה של הציירת אסתר לוריא, והמשך סיפורה בארץ.

Director : מנחם אלעזרי

Duration : 26

Language : Hebrew

The unvieling ceremony of the monument in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Kibbuts Netzer Sereni

Short home video.Former first Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion attended the unvieling of the monument in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Kibbutz Netzer Sereni. The monument was sculpted by Batya Lishansky. The host of the event was the late Rabbi Dr. Zvi-Herman Azaria Helfgott. In the front row are Ms. Malka Azaria-Helfgott nee Bodner, sculptor Batya Lishansky, Zionist leader and Isaak Ben zvi's widow Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, Rabbi Dr. Zvi-Herman Azaria Helfgot, former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Israel Lerner, a member of Kibbutz Netzer Sirni, a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen camp..

Production Year : 1968

Duration : 6

Language : Silent Film

The World Was Ours - The Jewish Legacy of Vilna

This documentary looks at pre-war Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania) the former home of 60,000 Jews and the once thriving centre of Yiddish culture, the birthplace of Zionism and of the socialist Jewish Bund organization. The film focuses on the systematic extermination of Wilno'ss Jewish population. Narrated by Hollywood’s Mandy Patinkin.

Director : Mira Jedwabnik-Van Doren

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 60

Language : English

Memories of Berlin - Twilight of Weimar Culture

During the brief period of 15 years following the WWI and ending with the rise to power of Hitler in 1933, despite economic and political upheavals, Berlin the newly emancipated capital of the Weimar Republic, attracted artistic and scientific talents from all over the country of this century not only for moral freedom, but also for artistic freedom. This film, based on interviews and archival materials, tells of the twilights of this unique and flourishing point in time in the cultural history of Germany.

Director : Gary Conklin

Production Year : 1976

Duration : 72

Language : English

Brundibar

A new performance of "Brundibar", the children's opera by Hans Krasa and Adolf Hoffmeister which was performed by the children Theresienstadt Ghetto.

Director : Volker Kuehn

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 42

Language : Czech, German

Dance of Death: Cabaret in the Concentration Camps

Based on testimonies, commentaries, archival materials, this documentary explores an exceptional phenomenon in the Nazi concentration camps: cabaret performances that were held by the prisoners to entertainment of the SS.

Director : Volker Kuehn

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 28

Language : German

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