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Documentary film about Jan Karski, born in Lodz in 1914, a professor at Georgetown University, formerly a member of the Polish underground, and messenger of the Polish government in exile to the governments of allied countries during World War II, living in Washington since 1946. Includes interviews and archival films.

Director : Michal Fajbusiewicz, Waldemar Piasecki

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 74

Language : English, Polish

The Karski Report

A documentary film, in which Klod lanzman brings to the viewr unpublished parts of the interview he conducted with Karski, that were not included in his masterpiece "Shoah".Jan Karski was born in Łodz in 1914 as Jan Kosilovski (Karski was his code name in the underground, which he later adopted)… In 1942 Karski was sent to London to convey a detailed report on the situation in occupied Poland and of the Jews there… he risked his life more than once to witness the disaster of the Jews of Poland from up close. Karski relayed the report in London to the Polish government in...

Director : Claude Lanzmann

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 49

Language : English, French

Death of Zygielbojm

A feature. In May 1943, Szmul Zygielbojm, a member of the Polish government-in-exile, commits suicide in London. His action leads young British journalist Adam to follow the coroner’s investigation, revealing the significance of Zygielbojm’s mission in Great Britain: to convince the indifferent Allies to intervene in the Holocaust being perpetrated by Nazi Germany in Europe. An account of a true historical tragedy.

Director : Ryszard Brylski

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 86

Language : Polish

לקט סרטי מוזיאון יד ושם - גלריה 7, Master International

מאסטר אינטרנשיונל של רצף סרטים לפי הופעתם במוזיאון יד ושם

Director : ראובן הקר, Noemi Schory, Itay Ken-Tor

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 60

Language : Hebrew

Messengers Without an Audience

This documentary tells of the heroism of two eye-witnesses who were the first to report to the West about the Nazi crimes being committed in the concentration camps. All they got in response from London and Washington was apathy and disbelief. Taking part in this film are Jan Karski (his last interview), a Righteous Gentile and emissary from the Polish Government, and Dr Gerhart Riegner, a representative of the World Jewish Congress in Geneva, who sent a telegram (known afterwards as “Riegner Telegram”) to Stephen Weiss and to British MP Sidney Silverman, warning of the Nazi plans to exterminate millions of...

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 52

Language : English

They Risked Their Lives - Rescuers Of The Holocaust

Documentary film that presents the testimonies of rescuers of Jews in Poland, Holland, Hungary, Belgium, Germany, France, Czechoslovakia and Ukraine. They tell about their motivations and the dangers that were involved in their rescue activities and hiding from Nazi persecution.

Director : Gay Block

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 54

Language : English

Remember This

A mono-drama. The story of Yan Karski. He stated that all he can says is that he saw it, and it was the truth. Karski was a reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness. After surviving the Blitzkrieg, Karski swor allegiance to the Polish Underground and risked his life to carry the first eyewitness reports of war-torn Poland to the Western world, and ultimately, the Oval Office. Karski ecaped a Gestapo prison, and beared witness to the despair of the Warsaw ghetto and confronted by the inhumanity of a death camp, Karski endured mental anguish and physical torture to stand tall in the halls of power and...

Director : Derek Goldman, Jeff Hutchens

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 95

Language : English

Noodkreet in Stilzwijgen

סרט תיעודי של הבמאי וילי לינדוור. אם נשיא ארה"ב פ.ד. רוזוולז/ROOSEVELT, ר"מ אנגליה ווינסטון צ'רציל/WINSTON CHURCHILL והתקשורת היו מקשיבים לאזהרות העדים מהדקה הראשונה-האם היה ניתן למנוע את רצח העם היהודי? מדוע התעלמו ראשי בעלות הברית משליחים אלה שרצו למנוע את הרצח ההמוני של יהודי? כנראה שלמערב היה סדר עדיפויות אחר. השליח הראשון היה גרהרט ריגנר/GERHART RIGNER ששלח , משווייץ, מברק למנהיהיגם מערביים את המסר. השליח המפורסם ביותר היה לוחם ההתנגדות הפולני הידוע בכינויו יאן קארסקי /JAN KARSKI. שני אנשים אלה מילאו תפקיד מרכזי בדיווח לממשלות בעלות הברית. קרסקי דיווח אישית לנשיא וזוולט על הרצח ההמוני. הסרט כולל שיחה קודרת...

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 52

Language : Dutch, English, German

32 Classified Pages - The Report from Hell

A documentary film. In April 1944, the least known great escape of WW2 took place. Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, Slovak Jews, succeeded in escaping from the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, with help of the camp underground, and overcoming difficulties and dangers they reach Žilina, Slovakia. There, before the heads of the Jewish community, they testify about the extermination of the Jews in the camp. Their written testimony becomes the "Auschwitz Protocol of Vrba and Wetzler." The protocol that reaches the Vatican, the Allies, and is even partly broadcast on BBC radio, encountered distrust,...

Director : Jan Novák

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 62

Language : Czech