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סרט תיעודי קצר.

Production Year : 2011

Language : Russian

A short documentary movie. The movie talks about antisemitism. What is antisemitism and what role did it play in Nazi Germany? How can we teach and explain to students the oncept of antisemitism? Antisemitism did not begin when Adolf Hitler came to power in January 1933. Antisemitism had long been entrenched in Germany and other European countries, and Jews for many centuries had been victims of widespread hatred and suspicion. The movie presents the different forms antisemitism has taken over the centuries and the innovations brought to antisemitism by the Nazis in order to better explain the historical...

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 15

Language : English

Documentation f the Video Art Installation "Jewish Life between Two Wars" (Niv Moshe Ben David, 2013), at the permanent exhibition "Shoah", Bolck 27, Auschwitz Museum

A short documentary. A short Documentation of the video art work of the Israeli artist Niv Moshe Ben David, in the permanent exhibition on Block 27 at the Auschwitz Museum. The large space of the Auschwitz pavilion contains a 360-degree montage depicting Jewish life before the Holocaust.

Director : ניב משה בן דוד

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 9

THE MOGEN DAVID OF BARTH ON THE BALTIC

סרט זכרון אישי קצר של הבמאי רון לוין, על אביו, ר' הנרי סטנפורד לוין/Henry Stanford Levine. הנרי לוין היה עו"ד יהודי שנולד וגדל בעיר סירקיוז במדינת ניו יורק. הוא שירת בחיל האוויר האמריקני, ונפל בשבי הנאצי כשבוי מלחמה. ככזה הוחזק עם שבויי מלחמה נוספים במחנה נאצי Stalag Luft 1. הוא הצליח לקיים בחשאי תפילות יהודיות במחנה, תוך שהוא משתמש רק במשולש אחד מתוך סמל המגן דוד. הסרט מבוסס על ספר באותו השם שכתב רון לוין.

Director : Ron Levine

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 13

Language : English

The Lost Synagogue of Ioannina

A documentary. Ioannina, Greece had two synagogues before WWII. The Nazi’s desecrated the newer synagogue, Kal Kadosh Hadash, by using it as a stable. It was then razed by the city after the war to accommodate the remnant of returning Jews with living space. Few remember the original. The film is dedicated to its memory.

Director : Isaac Dostis

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 19

Language : English, Greek

The Jewish Image - NEVER AGAIN

A documentary. The film looks at the image of the Jew in our mind’s eye from submission during the Holocaust to its change into militancy of ‘never again’. THE JEWISH IMAGE was a 1974 award winner at the Brooklyn Film Festival for new filmmakers. A silent film with images & music.

Director : Isaac Dostis

Production Year : 1974

Duration : 5

Language : English

Spark Among the Ashes

A documentary film. Cracow’s handful of Jews, survivors of one of the largest Jewish communities prior to World War II, were eager to participate in the first bar mitzvah in their synagogues since the War. This New York Times headline Jews of Cracow Await US Bar Mitzvah Boy, caught the eye of Eric Strom, a 13-year-old Connecticut boy“. Eric and his family went to Poland. a woman rabbi faced a storm of controversy over religious traditions and modernity; a holocaust-devastated Jewish community reflects on its past, present and future, and the conflict between orthodox and contemporary religious movements.

Director : Oren Rudavsky

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 57

Language : English

The Whole World is a Narrow Bridge

This private story of Slovakia’s Jewish community revolving around sepia-coloured photographs is dedicated to Ján Mozolák who saved the lives of 14 Jews who were supposed to be executed during the war. Would Jossi Steiner be the rabbi of Košice nowadays if he had not found shelter in the basement owned by the Slovak equivalent of Oscar Schindler? A touching and at the same time bitter story about survival, about an intimate list of Mozolák.

Director : Dušan Hudec

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 59

Language : English, Hebrew, Slovak