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חדשות סוף השבוע עם דני קושמרו - כתבת טלויזיה על חנוכת מוזיאון שואה החדש

כתבת טלויזיה על הלאת מאגר השמות ביד ושם לאינטרנט וחשיבות מילוי דפי עד. כולל ראיונות עם ניצול, שואה: אברהם זליג, יצחק כהן ודודו שחר.

Director : שלמה רז

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

These are the Generations - David and Tzipporah Friedman

A documentary about David and Tzipporah Friedman, Hungarian Holocaust survivors who ran a children's boarding school "Neve Michael" in which they were active from 1950 to 1986. According to their outstanding pedagogical method a children's Home is a family home: students, staff, manager and all his family are one model unit. In the film Zipporah tells her memoirs, and there are interviews and memories of family members and friends, as well as employees and graduates of the boarding school. Photos of the family home in Budapest and in the ghetto are incorporated as well as archive footage.

Director : אסתר גולדשטיין, פנינה לוין

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 62

Language : Hebrew

In Search of: Angel of Death, Dr. Mengele

Documentary film that describes the search of Simon Wiesenthal for the Nazi criminal Dr. Josef Mengele, physician and SS Officer, who carried out selections, medical experiments and sterilizations on Auschwitz prisoners. Includes archival photographs, interviews and photographs from Mengele's hiding places.

Director : Abraham Lewenstein

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 23

Language : English

If One of Us Should Die

Director : Susanna Edling

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 58

Language : Hungarian

Rene and I: From Auschwitz to America

One of the best known characters of WW2 was Dr Joseph Mengele and the experiments he did on human kind and specifically on twins. Many times we have had the opportunity to hear the terrible story about him and this time we hear and see it through the eyes of the twins Rene and Irene who survived the war and tell their story. From a world of death and fear, a moving story blooms, full of hope and love, a victory of mankind and a strong connection that only twins can share.

Director : Gina Angelone

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 55

Language : English

Lost childhood: the story of the Birkenau boys

A group of Holocaust survivors -- some of the 89 Jewish boys spared by Dr. Joseph Mengele to live as slave laborers in the Birkenau death camp -- return to Europe fifty years later. They recount their experiences in the camp, their survival tactics and coping mechanisms, and the emotional scars they still carry.

Director : Rich Newberg

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 48

Language : English

Liebe Perla

Perla, a dwarf, is the last living member of a Jewish family of dwarfs that survived Dr. Mengele’s experiments in Auschwitz. She remembers that the Nazis documented her family on film, and dreams of finding the lost reel. Hannelore, a Christian dwarf born in postwar Germany, wants to help Perla fulfill her dream. As she conducts her search, Hannelore notices startling similarities between the Nazi’s goal of creating a perfect society and the “murder” of embryos and babies today, when they are diagnosed as having abnormalities. This story of the friendship between two very short women raises questions of birth...

Director : שחר רוזן

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 63

Language : German, Hebrew

Truth and Lies: Child of the Death Camps - Binjamin Wilkomirski

The film raises the painful question of whether it is always a good thing to find out the truth. Journalist Daniel Ganzfied, who accuses the self-declared Holocaust survivor Binjamin Wilkomirski of lying, applies a strong argument. If false accounts of the concentration camps are accepted, it leaves room for false denials. But camp victims who consider Wilkomirski their spokesman, feel that their own credibility is being undermined by Ganzfield. It was not surprising that his attack on Wilkomirski was embraced by those that dispute that the Holocaust even took place. Director Christopher Olgiati first follows...

Director : Christopher Olgiati

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 64

Language : English

The beautician

The Nazi physician Joseph Mengele devoted part of his experimental tests on human beings to proving that red-haired women had a different sensitivity level. The narrator, Emmy Blum, is a 76-year old beautician who works in São Paulo. She was deported from Hungary in 1944 and she saw Mengele for the first time in Auschwitz's main courtyard. Some weeks later, she became one of his guinea pigs. After the war, their paths met again in Brazil. Sixty years later, Emmy agrees on taking part in a documentary film about her life. Before the viewer, the movie shifts gears, becoming a reflection about the memory traps and...

Director : Sergio Oksman

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 96

Language : Portuguese

Marathon Man

דסטין הופמן הסהרורי מגלם בוגר אוניברסיטה פופולרי המעביר את זמנו בין ריצות מרתון להצטיינות בלימודיו האקדמיים. בלי להתכוון הופמן עולה על מזימה קונספירטיבית מסוכנת, בה מעורבים אחיו, סוכן סמוי בבולשת הפדרלית ונאצי סאדיסט, הידוע כ"המלאך הלבן מאושוויץ" (הדמות מבוססת על דמותו של דוקטור מנגלה). הנאצי משליט טרור ומענה אנשים בקור רוח מפחיד על מנת להבריח יהלומים נדירים מגבולות ארה"ב לאירופה. סצנת העינויים המבחילה בסרט קוצרה לאחר שהקהל יצא מהאולמות סגול וחולני...

Director : John Schlesinger

Production Year : 1976

Duration : 125

Language : English

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