Red Cross activities during the Holocaust. The film includes testimonies of Theresienstadt survivors, as well as interviews with former Red Cross employees, including Dr. Maurice Rossel, who was part of the delegation that visited the camp in 1944, and took many photographs, which are in archive at Yad Vashem.
Director : Roger Mills, Jenny Morgan, Claire Collinson-Jones, Jane Dibblin
Documentry about a war trial of Lithuanian Collaborators with the Nazis. Assorted shots of Memorial Statues and Camps. Files on Rolf Gerrets, Jaan Vilk, Alexander Lak, Ain-Ervin Mere. Map with Kalevi-Liiva marked. Trial- pictorial evidence, signed documents, massive memorial with many people, some with numbers on arms and wearing striped pajamas.
Volume 10 in "Europe: The Mighty Continent", a 13 parts documentary TV series that examines the history of the continent. Actor Peter Ustinov and historian John Terrine bring to life the trends, technology and tides of fortune that have so drastically reshaped Europe since 1900.
The Allies - The End of War:
Betrayed by Russia during her heroic Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Poland was occupied by her betrayers. So fell Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, the rest of the Balkans, half of Germany and half of Vienna. East Europe exchanged the tyranny of Hitler for that of Stalin. Britain went to the polls, cast out the...
Episode 10 in director’s Péter Forgács series "Private Hungary" which is based on a home footage that document the daily life of the Hungarians, before, during and after WWII. This experimental film is based on home movies, documenting the family life of Hungarian Jews from 1937 until the German occupation in 1944. This is a joint effort of the film director Péter Forgács and György Pető, an amateur photographer whose dozens of reels of film were made by Forgacs into a cinematic testimony about Hungary during the war and the German occupation.
Is a documentary that depicts the role of Nazi collaborators during the Shoah who were complicit in the liquidation of Latvian and Lithuanian Jewry, i.e. the Litvak population, as well as their connection to present day war crimes issues.
סרט תיעודי על פאולה ולט, ילידת 1920 Dabrowa פולין, על קורותיה ב - Wien, במחתרות בהולנד ובצרפת במסתור בבתי כלא ובמחנות Auschwitz-Birkenau ו - Bergen-Belsen.
דרמה המתארת סיפור אמיתי - "ציד הארנבות של מוהלבירטל" - בריחת 500 אסירים רוסים ממחנה הריכוז מאוטהאוזן בפברואר 45. הסרט בוחן את קצוות הטוב והרוע של תושבי העיירה הסמוכה בזמן ציד האדם הברוטלי שהחל כשהס"ס הורה לאוכלוסייה המקומית בכפרים הסמוכים להשתתף בחיפושים. היו מי שהגיבו בהתלהבות, כפי שדרשו הוראות הס"ס, והסגירו את הנמלטים, בעוד אחרים סייעו להם. שני קצינים סובייטים, מיכאל וניקולאי, הצליחו להגיע לחווה של משפחה מקומית ולמרות שגברת קארנר, בעלת החווה, היתה מודעת לעונש המוות שיוטל על כי מי שיסייע לנמלטים, היא בוחרת להחביא את השניים. באותו זמן, בנה פרדל חווה את הזוועה האמיתי של ציד הארנבות של מוהלבירטל כחבר ב"פולקשטורם"...
Uncle Chatzkel explores the story of a man and his reunion with his nephew Rod, a South African born Australian living in Sydney. Rod is both the filmmaker and Chatzkel’s nephew. Lemchen has lived through the Russian Revolution, two World Wars, a Communist regime, and the transition of Lithuania from Soviet Republic to an independent state. During the Holocaust, Nazis and their Lithuanian supporters killed Chatzkel’s parents and children. He and his wife Lena were then sent to separate concentration camps in Germany. Unlike many other Jews who were not Communists, Chatzkel and his wife, both Holocaust survivors,...
