An animated documentary. Suitable for students in the fifth grade to seventh grade in elementry school. The documentary depicts the story of author and Holocaust survivor Uri Orlev. Uri Orlev was born in 1931 in Warsaw. Following the outbreak of World War II, Orlev and his family were sent to the Warsaw ghetto along with the rest of the Warsaw's Jews. To help cope with the harsh reality of life in the ghetto, Uri and his brother would make up imaginary stories. Later, Orlev's mother fell ill and was murdered by the Germans along with the rest of the ghetto hospital inmates. After their mother's death, Orlev and...
A documentary film. Beneath the streets of the Muranów neighbourhood in Warsaw are burried streets bearing the same names as 70 years ago, before they becme the Warsaw Ghetto and were finally wiped off the face of the earth. Modern Muranów lives the present, yet below, once seems to endure.
A documentary. Born in Zakroczym, in Poland, Holocaust Survivor Joe Engel was taken by the Nazi's at 14 and at 14 and never saw his parents again. Now 90 tears old, Joe is the embodiment of living history and spends his retirement years ensuring the Holocaust is never forgotten. From the overwhelming despair of the Warsaw Gehtto, to the shroud of unceasing death and suffering that was Birkenau and Auswitz, to his escape from a Death Train at 17 and his covert work as a freedom fighter, Joe personally takes us on his vivid journey to hell and back. This is a story of faith, renewal and redemption. Joe Engel ,...
סרט תיעודי המתאר את החוויות הקשות של ניצולי השואה, מרביתם ניצולי גטו ורשה. חלקם של הניצולים הצליחו להימלט מהגטו בזמן המרד, וחלקם שהו בזמן המרד בחלק הארי של ורשה וצפו מחוץ לגטו על הרס הגטו ,על השרפה ופיצוץ הבניינים על יושביהם. בין המספרים שבח וייס, ניצול שואה, שהיה יו"ר הכנסת ושגריר ישראל בפולין. כל ניצול וסיפור הטרגדיה האישית שלו.