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A feature film. Born in France in the 1920s, Simone Veil studied politics at Paris prestigious Sciences Po until she and her family were deported to the extermination camps during World War II. Though she lost her parents and a brother, Veil managed to survive both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, an experience that taught her to fight and which would prepare her for her battles for women's rights in the decades ahead. After the war, she rose in the national government, becoming Chiracâ's minister of health in 1974 and the driving force behind a then controversial law to legalize abortion in France in the 1970s.

Director : Christian Fauré

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 87

Language : French

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A shortt documentary. The fistory of the Jewish Community in the city of Bytom in the region of Upper Silesia. The history of the Jews of Bytom is divided into two parts; from the 14th Century till the Second World War and from the end of the war till today. u The emancipation edict of 1812, nder the rule of the Hapsburg Monarchy, the Jewish community thrived. ssynagogues and shops were opened shops, and also social services such as a Jewish cemetery. Prominent Jews being part of the City Council. There were good relations between the Jewish and German inhabitants of the town. The Geneva Convention on...

Director : Alicia Scatton

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 24

Language : Polish

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כתבת טלוויזיה. שודרה במסגרת התוכנית "היום שהיה" בערוץ 10 בתאריך 18.7.18. גיא זוהר דיווח על הגעתו של ויקטור אורבן, ראש ממשלת הונגריה לישראל לביקור קצר בן כמה ימים. אורבן נחשב לאחד המנהיגים השנויים ביותר במחלוקת , באיחוד היארופי. אורבן מקדם בארצו חקיקה אנטי דמוקרטית. ארגון "אמנסטי הבינלאומי" הודיע שיפגין ביד ושם במהלך הביקור. ח"כ תמר זנדברג, ממר"צ, פנתה אליו בטוויטר בשפה הונגרית וכתבה כי אינו רצוי פה.

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 1

Language : Hebrew

A journey to the land of oblivion: the Polish Law

A journey to the Land of Oblivion: Following the passing of The Polish Law, Eric Weiss embarks on a journey to the new-old anti-Semitic districts of Poland. In 2001, Professor Jan Tomash Gross published his book "Neighbors", in which for the first time, he brings testimonies from the trial in the early 1960s against the perpetrators of the Jedwabne massacre, a book that was not well received in Poland. Former Polish president Bronisław Komorowski, who was unwilling to accept the Polish government's denial of Poles' culpability lost the presidency in favor of Andji Duda who expressed the populist rejection of...

Director : אריק וייס

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 26

Language : English, Hebrew, Polish

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כתבת טלוויזיה. שודרה במבזק החדשות בתאגיד השידור "כאן" בתאריך 8.7.18. יו"ר מועצת יד ושם , הר' ישראל מאיר לאו, קרא לראש ממשלת ישראל , בנימין נתניהו לחדש את הדיונים על ההצהרה השותפת ישראל פולין ביחס לשואה.

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 1

Language : Hebrew