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Pogrom is Murder? Kielce 4.07.1946

A documentary depicting the murder of Jews in Kielce in 1946, based on the latest studies of Polish Institute Instytut Pamięci Narodowej folk-IPN, interviews with historians and experts, photographs and archival documents and maps of the city.

Director : Artur Janicki

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 32

Language : Polish

Pillar of Fire, Part 6 - Exodus 1945 - 1947

Episode 6 in the Isreali TV documentary series “The Pillar of Fire”, that explores the history of the Zionist Movement till the establishment of the state of Israel. This Episode deals with the post WWII years 1945-1947. Including archive materials and interviews. Participants: Moshe Sonnenschon – Holocaust survivor Herold Bily – Assistant to the British Foreign Office Sonia Hirsh – Refugee Israel Galili – Hagana Command John Shaw – Senior Secretary, Government of Palestine Menahem Begin – Irgun Commander, on the explosion of the King David Hotel and the Irgun people...

Director : Michael Lev Tov

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 51

Language : English

"Shearit Hapleitah": Holocaust Survivors in Poland and "Habricha"

Documentary film that brings the testimony of Herta Goldman about the return to Poland from the camp, the antisemitism and riots that broke out with the end of the war, the difficulties and return to life, and the testimony of Hasia Borenstein about joining the "Bricha" movement and immigration to Eretz Israel. The film makes use of photographs of groups of children and the meeting with men of the "Bricha"

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

From Hell to Hell

In this dramatic film about the Kielce pogrom, two young couples, one Polish-Christian and the other Polish-Jewish, get married in Kielce in 1938. They become friends, and when war breaks out and the Jews are deported, the Polish-Jewish couple asks their childless Christian friends to take care of their infant daughter. When the Jewish couple returns to Kielce after the war, they want their daughter back, but she is now an eight-year-old who has been brought up as a Catholic. The tension between the two couples reaches a boiling point as the Kielce pogrom takes place. A list of the victims appears on screen at...

Director : Dmitri Astrachan

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 98

Language : German, Russian

לקט סרטי מוזיאון יד ושם - גלריה 9

מאסטר אינטרנשיונל של רצף סרטים לפי הופעתם במוזיאון יד ושם

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

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 90

Language : Hebrew

The Phoenix

Documentary film that deals with children of the Shoah. Against the background of pictures, paintings and excerpts from archival films testimonies and memories are brought of survivors who were children in the Shoah.

Director : Yigal Burstein

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 47

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Witnesses

Documentary film about the pogrom of Kielce, a pogrom that happened on 4 July, 1946 and in which Poles murdered 42 Jews who were returning to the city in the months after the liberation. Includes interviews with eyewitnesses, photographs and archival films.

Director : Marcel Lozinski

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 25

Language : Polish

Kielce Input

סברט תיעודי קצר. ריאיון עם אדם על פוגרום קיילצה.

Duration : 48

Language : Polish, Swedish

Bogdan’s Journey

A documentary. One man persuades the people of Kielce, Poland, to confront the truth about the darkest moment in their past: Kielce was the site of Europe’s last Jewish pogrom. In 1946 forty holocaust survivors, seeking shelter in a downtown building, were murdered by townspeople. Communist authorities suppressed the story. For Bogdan Bialek, a Catholic Pole, anti-Semitism is a sin. This conviction is the animating force of his life. Conflict over the pogrom was still a festering wound when Bialek moved to Kielce in the late 70s. He was shocked by the atmosphere of his new town. Trained as a psychologist, he has...

Director : Michal Jaskulski, Lawrence Loewinger

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 87

Language : English, Polish