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Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2002 - Loti (Nomi) Lang

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2002. Torchlighter Loti (Nomi) Lang. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

A Life for a Life

This documentary "A Life for a life," tells the stories of Poles who saved Jews during the Second World War - hide, feed, protect, but as such risked the death of the whole family. The document was carried out by cities, towns and villages Polish, in which the tragic events was happened. The protagonists are the witnesses of those events, but often their children and grandchildren.

Director : Arkadiusz Gołębiewski

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 33

Language : Polish

Closed Country

Many years after World War II, evidence showing a connection between Swiss policy and the deportation and murder of Charles and Sabine Sonabend’s parents at Auschwitz fall into Charles’ hands. This startling film documents the journey of the brother and sister back to Switzerland, where they confront people from their past, including a former government border official and a nun from a monastery where the children briefly were hidden.

Director : Kaspar Kasics

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 86

Language : French, German

Edith Stein, Echt and the Truth

This documentary tells the story of Edith Stein (1891-1942), a German philosopher of Jewish decent whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1998. Stein converted to Catholicism in 1922 and lived as nun in the Carmelite Convent of Echt, South Holland. During World War II she was deported and died in Auschwitz. Director Frederieke Jochems worked for 9 years to bring Edith Stein's story to life and to illuminate the controversy surrounding the canonization. Featuring Holocaust survivor Max Hamburger, Carmelite nun Maria Amate Neyer, Stein’s American niece Susanne Batzdorff, feminist theologian Thalia Gur-Klein, American...

Director : Frederieke Jochems

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 50

Language : Dutch

The Hidden Child

This film documents the story of Prof. Saul Friedlander,Holocaust historian and survivor.The documentary follows Friedlander as he returns to Prague, the city his family left as the persecution of Jews escalated during World War II. Friedlander recounts his family’s trip to a convent in France where he was placed in hiding with nuns.

Director : יהודה יניב

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 52

Language : French, Hebrew

Hanuszka

Chana Avrutsky’s autobiography A Star Among Crosses served as the inspiration for this documentary combining testimony and dramatic sequences to present the incredible tale of a young Jewish girl who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and found shelter at a monastery where her Jewish identity was never revealed. The nuns took her under their wing and trained her to become a nun herself. In the meantime, a young man studying for the priesthood recruited her (though she did not realize it) as a messenger for the Polish Resistance. After the war Chana returned to Judaism and emigrated to Israel with other members of her...

Director : Nurit Kedar

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 70

Language : Hebrew, Polish

The English Patient

An award wining romantic epic based on Michael Ondaatje 1992 bestseller. The story takes place in an abandoned monastery in Tuscany, Italy, close to the end of WWII. Hanna, a young Canadian nurse dedicates herself to the care of a badly burned unknown “English patient”, survivor of a plane crash at North African desert. His only possessions are an annotated diary and old photographs. Reading out to him extracts from his diary, Hanna, occasionally encounters references related to a woman called “K”. The patient who revealed himself as a Hungarian Count, relates to her that “K” in fact stands for “Katherine”, a...

Director : Anthony Minghella

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 162

Language : English

The Children of Father Jacques

This documentary is based on the testimonies and work of Father Jacques, a French monk and Righteous Gentile. Father Jacque was born in 1900 with the name Lucien Bunel. During the Nazi occupation of France he was the Headmaster of the Saint-Therese de l´ Enfant Jesus Petit College in Avon. Three Jewish boys sheltered there. Louis Malle’s 1987 film “Au revoir les enfants” also perpetuates the story of Father Jacques.

Director : Michel Fresnel

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 52

Language : French

Children in Hiding

Documentary film that presents the testimony of Fridja Rotbard, who as a child watched the murder of her mother, was hidden in a monestary under an assumed identity and about coping with the moment of liberation and return to Judaism. The film makes use of photographs.

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 4

Language : Hebrew

Uprooted

A documentary presenting the stories of nine Holocaust survivors who as children were hidden alone in the homes of non-Jews or in monasteries. Some of them were forced to wander by themselves for long periods of time, tormented by their sudden isolation.

Director : Bracha Lukov

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 64

Language : Hebrew

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