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The Raids of the Summer of 1942 in the free zone

This film is about a little known aspect of the deportation of Jews from France. It explains how, in August 1942, 11 000 men, women, children, Jews who had fled to the south of France entirely under the authority of the Vichy regime, were arrested by police and gendarmes in the French term fully prepared to raids by French officials. Based on the story of survivors, supported by the analysis of eminent historians, this documentary reconstructs the details of this crime. It was supported by the FMS.

Director : Antoine Casubolo Ferro

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 52

Language : French

Remembering the Children

This documentary, made by Austrian directors Hannes Gellner and Thomas Draschan, tells of the fate of Jewish children under the Vichy government through material collected during historical research and presented by Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, historians and activists. Six survivors, who were children or adolescents during WWII, describe here their arrest and deportation. Their testimonies combine personal fate with historical facts and point the Vichy government as responsible to the deportation of more than 11,000 Jewish children towards Nazi concentration camps in the years 1942-1944. Serge Klarsfeld’s recalls...

Director : Hannes Gellner, Thomas Draschan

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 80

Language : French

The Shuttered Shields – Tracing the Lost Uncles

This family film tells the story of Esther Alfandari and her family in Salonika, Greece, during the Holocaust. Esther Alfandari survived the Holocaust owing to her immigration to Erez Israel in 1933.

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 21

Language : English, Hebrew

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie - Part 2

Second part of a four-hour documentary film about the fugitive Nazi criminal Klaus Barbi who served as head of the Gestapo in Lyons, France. Barbi, who was known as "The Butcher of Lyons", is responsible for the deaths of people in the French underground and thousands of Jews. The film describes his life from childhood in Germany until his trial in 1983, after he succeeded for 40 years to evade judgment. Winner of the Oscar Award in the category best documentary film in 1988.

Director : Marcel Ophüls

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 126

Language : English, French, Spanish

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie - Part 1

The first part of a four-hour documentary film about the escaped Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbi who served as head of the Gestapo in Lyons, France. Barbi, who was known as "The Butcher of Lyons", is responsible for the deaths of members of the French Resistance and thousands of Jews. The film describes his life from childhood in Germany until his trial in 1983, after he succeeded for around 40 years in evading trial. Winner of the 1988 Oscar Award as best film in the documentary film category.

Director : Marcel Ophüls

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 137

Language : French

The Death is a Master from Germany: The Murder of the European Jews. Collaboration and Refusal in Europe

Documentary film, reviewing the extermination of European Jewry during the Holocaust in 15 countries (see detailed content in the "additional information" tab).

Director : Lea Rosh

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 161

Language : German

Klarsfeld: A Love Story

A documentary. Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have spent their lives tracking down Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice. Now in their 80s, they continue their fight against a resurgent far-right movement in Europe. The film explores both their past work and their current efforts to combat fascism, featuring personal testimonies from fellow activists and family to presidents and Holocaust survivors. The film is also the story of a love affair between Beate and Serge; hunting partners, fellow activists, husband and wife, and parents, revealing both their courageous work and enduring love. The movie was...

Director : Mike Lerner, Martin Herring

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 90

Language : English, French, German

The Meaning of Hitler

A documentary movie. this documentary, tries to answer the question what can history tell us about the present. Shot in nine countries, the film explores what Hitler means in the current waves of white supremacy, antisemitism, and the weaponization of history. Historians and writers such as Martin Amis, Deborah Lipstadt, and Saul Friedlander, along with famed Nazi hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, suggest their insights of why understanding history is urgent . Sebastian Haffner’s 1978 German best-selling book The Meaning of Hitler.

Director : Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 88

Language : English, German

You Won't Get Me!

A documentary movie. A historical road movie of Manfred Weil. He tells about Oyssey during the time of shoah. Weil used tricks outmaneuver all the Nazi bureaucracy and their collaborators in order to flee concentration camps and to survive. After the war, Weil became a wonderful artist who most of the time focused with his paintings on beautiful subjects - above all women. Manfred Weil survived every kind of distress until he died of a natural death aged nearly 95. The film was shown at stranger than fiction 2016, Germany. .

Director : Werner Muller

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 119

Language : German

Kichka: Life is a Cartoon

סרט תיעודי. The film follows father and son Kichka during two intensive years in Israel, Belgium, France with many interlocutors. In one of the most intense moments of the film, father and son go to the place where Henri was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942. The 63-year-old Michel has never been there before, the 91-year-old Henri avoids this place, which for him is filled with the worst feelings ever, it manifests in him the second that was to change his life forever horrible. "Kichka" shows what power the cartoon can have, how father and son could only talk to each other through this art. However, the...

Director : Delfina Jalowik

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 75

Language : English, French, German, Hebrew

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