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Trailer. This documentary. In the spring of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was almost over, and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Late that night, they walked down to the village, where 180 enslaved Jewish laborers waited, made them strip naked, and shot them all, before returning to the bright lights of the party deals with the lost Jewish community of Rechnitz. The futile attempts to locate the mass grave of this community, which finally...

Director : Eduard Erne, Margareta Heinrich

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 15

Language : English

Zbrodnia Bez Kary

Documentary film dealing with the “Massacre in Katyn Forest” – Approximately 4,000 Polish officers, captured by the Soviets, were killed. The massacre was carried out in 1940 by the NKVD in Katyn Forest which is situated west of Smolensk. It was verified by the discovery of the bodies in a mass grave by the Germans in 1943. This caused accusations of guilt to be exchanged between the Soviets and the Germans. An investigation by US Congress in the 1950s revealed that the massacre was carried out by the secret Soviet police under instruction from the Soviet Government. Only in 1989, during the rule of...

Director : Anna Teresa Pietraszek

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 51

Language : Polish

Europe: The Mighty Continent - The English, D-Day and the Holocaust.

This series traces the history of Europe between 1900 and 1975 and includes film clips and photographs from documentary archives. Segment analyzes the events of World War II in Europe focusing on the unprecedented destruction of civilian populations. Discusses the Nazi extermination camps and their brutality against Jewish and Slavic peoples

Director : Brian Lewis

Production Year : 1975

Duration : 52

Language : English

בית העדות ניר גלים

Homemade documentary: Holocaust survivor Yehiel's testimony. The film contains photos and footage of Yehiel's grandson trip to Poland.

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 146

Language : Hebrew

The Forest Of Death of Zeithain

Discovery of mass graves of Soviet prisoners of war of the camps near Zeithain.

Director : Richard Groschopp

Production Year : 1946

Duration : 12

Language : German

A Wall of Silence

This documentary. In the spring of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was almost over, and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Late that night, they walked down to the village, where 180 enslaved Jewish laborers waited, made them strip naked, and shot them all, before returning to the bright lights of the party deals with the lost Jewish community of Rechnitz. The futile attempts to locate the mass grave of this community, which finally came true...

Director : Eduard Erne, Margareta Heinrich

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 87

Language : German, Hebrew

Pillar of Fire, Part 12 - The Final Solution (1941-1942)

סדרת תעודה בהפקת ערוץ 1 של הטל' הישראלית העוסקת בתולדות התנועה ציונות עד הקמת מדינת ישראל. העבודה על הסדרה החלה ב-1975 ונמשכה כ-4 שנים. שידורה לראשונה ב-1981, עורר וויכוח ציבורי על רקע מחלוקת בעניין ייצוג תרומת יהדות ספרד למפעל הציוני בסדרה. "עמוד האש" מבוססת על תצלומים וסרטי ארכיון מ-30 ארכיונים בארץ ובעולם, ראיונות עם עדי ראייה, ציורים, וגרפיקה. גרסה זאת של הסדרה היא הגרסה המלאה בת ה- 19 פרקים. קריינות מאת השחקן יוסי בנאי.

Director : Gideon Drori, Nissim Mossek

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 60

Language : English

The Nazis - Nazi Concentration Camps

Documentary film that presents scenes of liberation from Nazi concentration camps as documented by the film unit of the US Army which accompanied the advancing liberating forces in Germany. At the head of the unit stood American director Lt. Colonel George Stevens.

Director : George Stevens

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 60

Language : English

Bełżec - Part 1

Although Belzec, Poland, is not one of the most well-known death camps, it was an appalling theatre of the Nazi extermination. It is estimated that between March and December 1942, about 600,000 Jews were murdered, deported mainly from Krakow and Lwow, but also from Germany,Austria and Czechoslovakia.The deportees were usually murdered few hours after their arrival and promptly hidden. In the first months of 1943 the death camp was dismantled, the dead bodies dug up and cremated to conceal the traces: the ground was levelled and trees were planted. Nevertheless, the Russians found the terrible truth.The only...

Director : Guillaume Moscovitz

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 110

Language : French, Hebrew, Polish

חמלה אויר ומים - בחזרה ליאסי

This is a home documentary of a roots visit taken by 15 members of the Fruchter family to Jassy, Rumania. The film tells the family’s story in which five of its members perished in the Jassy pogroms and were buried in a mass grave.

Director : Anat Safran

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 55

Language : Hebrew

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