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Ghetto Theresienstadt - Deception And Reality

Through eyewitness testimony, paintings, photographs and archival films the film tells about the Theresienstadt Ghetto, "The Model Ghetto", which was established in the Czech fortressed city Terezin, around 60 kilometers north of Prague, and served during the years 1941-1945 as a transit camp for Jews, mostly Czechs, Germans, Austrians and Dutch, before their transport to the death camps in the east.

Director : Irmgard Von Zur Muehlen

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 78

Language : English, German

Hourban - Sonderkommando, Auschwitz-Birkenau

In the days following the Red Army’s entry into the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration complex on 27th January 1945, buried under the ashes around the crematoriums were discovered several manuscripts hidden in makeshift containers. The manuscripts of Zalmen Gradowski, Leib Langfus and Zalmen Lewental were written in Yiddish. Their authors were Sonderkommandos. These « special teams » of prisoners were in charge of operating the crematoriums and subsidiary installations in the death industry conceived by the Nazis: undressing rooms, gas chambers, furnaces and incineration ditches.

Director : Emil Weiss

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 52

Language : French

Torte Bluma

Franz Stangl, the Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942-43, enjoyed a most unusual relationship with the Jewish slave who cooked his meals. Teetering on the brink of insanity, their daily rituals were held together by a tenuous tread, until the cargo train brings a surprising arrival.

Director : Benjamin Ross

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 18

Language : English

Die andere Reise - Von Amsterdam nach Vaihingen an der Enz, Der Leidensweg von Jules Schelvis. Juni 1943 bis April 1945

Documentary about Vaihingen an der Enz (officially named Wiesengrund) concentration camp, near the city of Vaihingen an der Enz in the Neckar region of Germany, was a slave labor camp for armament manufacturing built by the Todt organization, and then became an extermination camp. The camp was built in late 1943 - early 1944 as part of a secret program known as Stoffel to relocate Messerschmidt manufacturing plants underground, protected from Allied bombing raids. These underground facilities were constructed in conjunction with the quarries in the area. Originally an annex to the concentration camp at...

Director : Jörg Becker, Horst Tim Lehner

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 20

Language : German

Im Blick Zurück - Kein Vergessen, Erinnerungen von Wendelgard von Staden an die Häftlinge des KZ Wiesengrund

Director : Jörg Becker, Horst Tim Lehner

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 19

Language : German

Persian Lessons

A feature film. An unconventional friendship grows between the German chef of a concentration camp kitchen and the young Belgian jew , who falsely claims to be Persian in order to survive a mass hooting and is now obliged to teach the German officer a language that he only pretends to know. Based on the short story "Erfindung einer Sprache"by Wolfgang Kohlhaase.

Director : Vadim Perelman

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 128

Language : English, French, German

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Eli Rosenberg, Kalman Tajgman and Samuel Willenberg today are the last witnesses of rebel in Treblinka. The survived because they managed to escape in August 1943 with a group of other prisoners. 60 years after they tell about the nightmare that Treblinka was.

Director : Maciej Starczewski

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 25

The Last Stage

Film drama, depicting Auschwitz, in an almost documentary manner, centers around the women's camp and the conditions under which they lived. Martha Weiss, a Jew, is sent to Auschwitz with her family. On the first day of their arrival Martha is, by a coincidence, chosen as an interpreter, but her entire family is killed. Martha, who sees the brutal crimes, the sham of clean-up for the Red Cross, tries to escape under orders from the underground. Captured, she is tortured and dies as Allied planes fly overhead. The two Polish women who wrote and directed this film were themselves prisoners in the Birkenau women's...

Director : Wanda Jakubowska

Production Year : 1948

Duration : 99

Language : German, Polish, Russian

The Counterfeiters

דרמה העוסקת בסיפורם של קבוצת אסירים יהודים אשר הועסקו בסדנה סודית במחנה זקסנהאוזן ועסקו בזיוף שטרות פאונדים בריטיים ודולרים אמריקנים, יוזמה נאצית הידועה בשם "מבצע ברנהארד" שנועדה להסב נזק לכלכלת בנות הברית. בראש המבצע עמד קצין הס"ס ברנהארד קרוגר. במרכז הסרט, דילמת שיתוף הפעולה עם האויב או התנגדות שמשמעותה הוא מוות. לראש קבוצת האסירים היהודים אשר זכו לתנאים משופרים יחסית תמורת עבודתם מונה סולומון סוחוביץ, זייפן יהודי שהיה מוכר למשטרה עוד לפני המלחמה. עם השחרור הופסקה עבודת הזיוף באיבה. הסרט מבוסס על הביוגראפיה "סדנת השטן" מאת אדולף בורגר, אחד הזייפנים. בורגר, קומוניסט בצעירותו, חיבל בקביעות בעבודת הסדנה במטרה...

Director : Stefan Ruzowitzky

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 100

Language : German

Band of Brothers - 9, Why We Fight

Episode nine in the HBO-BBC co-production television series that is based on true occurrences and tell the story of Easy Company, an American infantry company during WWII. The full activity of the company is explored starting from the initial basic training stage through the invasion of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and to the liberation of Europe. Among the producers of the series, are director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks.

Director : David Frankel

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 75

Language : English

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