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A docu drama feature film. It is about a Jewish engineer who became the tragic victim of mob justice after being accused of murdering an Atlanta child worker in 1913. When the body of thirteen year old Mary Phagan was discovered in the cellar of the National Pencil Company, suspicions quickly fell upon the manager of the factory, Leo Frank. After a speedy trial filled with inconsistencies and fueled by racial discrimination, Frank was given the death sentence. But this was far from the end of the story; concluding that the conviction was unjust after

Director : Ben Loeterman

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 85

Language : English

My Lodz No Longer Exists - The story of Yosef Neuhaus

Summary: Documentary film. This film chronicles the Jewish community in Lodz, Poland, through the story of Yosef Neuhaus. Yosef was born in Lodz in 1924, to Tova-Yona and Zvi Hirsch. In May 1940, he was forced to enter the Lodz ghetto along with his parents and younger sister Zofia, where they lived for four years until their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau. All of Yosef’s family members were murdered in that camp. Yosef survived and was then imprisoned in several other camps. In...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 41

Language : Hebrew

Persian Lessons

A feature film. An unconventional friendship grows between the German chef of a concentration camp kitchen and the young Belgian jew , who falsely claims to be Persian in order to survive a mass hooting and is now obliged to teach the German officer a language that he only pretends to know. Based on the short story "Erfindung einer Sprache"by Wolfgang Kohlhaase.

Director : Vadim Perelman

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 128

Language : English, French, German

From Galicia to Aargau - Trails of a Jewish European in the 20th century

Over 60 years after World War II Jerzy Czarnecki, a retired nuclear technologist, travels to his native town Mosty Wielkie (now in the Ukraine). The ﬁlm relates his escape from the Nazi and change of name, forced labor in Germany, a new life in Poland after the War and ﬁnally, after a renewed outburst of open anti-Semitism in Poland, his emigration to Switzerland.

Director : Peter Scheiner, Susanne Scheiner

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 45

Language : German, Ukrainian

Baruch Shub- Moral Dilemmas

Documentary film that brings the testimony of Baruch Shub about moral dilemmas in the ghetto and the question of a group of young people whether to stay in the ghetto and be sentenced to death or flee to the forest despite endangering their lives and the lives of those remaining in the ghetto.

Director : Liran Atzmor

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 4

Language : Hebrew

The Cracow Ghetto

Documentary film that makes use of photographs and brings the testimony of Yehuda Maimon Poldak and Hela Shiffer Rufeisen and the testimony of Rivka Spinner Liebskind at the Eichmann Trial, about the dilemma of the Jewish underground in Cracow, which chose not to undertake resistance activity inside the ghetto, but in the Polish areas of the city.

Director : Noemi Schory

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 6

Language : Hebrew

Map of the Ghettos - Transnistria

Documentary film that makes use of works of art from a ghetto in Transnistria.

Director : Liran Atzmor

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 1

Language : Silent Film

The Jewish Nazi?

A docu-drama. It tells the staggering story of Melbourne's Alex Kurzem, a young boy who escaped the massacre of his family's shtetl in Belarus in 1941. He survived in the woods during one of the coldest winters on record, only to be captured by a Latvian battalion. Instead of killing him, they took pity on him and gave him a new name, adorned him with a uniform and a gun, and made him their child mascot, “Hitler's youngest soldier.”

Director : Goldberg, Dan

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 85

Language : English

Sarah Halimi: An Anti-Semitic and Unpunished Crime

A documentary. Sarah Halimi was murdered by her Malian-born neighbor during the French presidential campaign of 2017. The media initially ignored the case before a few journalists managed to mobilize public figures and the President. The investigating judge only wanted to see it as a murder committed by a "madman" having a "delusional episode." This case is emblematic of the rise of anti-Semitism in France today. The various developments in the case, particularly the fact that there are no longer any charges against the murderer, and the prevention of any reconstruction of the case, make it a new Dreyfus Affair....

Director : François Margolin

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 88

Language : French

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Duration : 18

Language : Russian

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