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This documentary film brings the story of Anna Maria Habermann Milan, the 1990s. Anna's mother dies. Looking through the legacy of her parents, she finds some official documents and letters. Reading them, she learns at the age of 50, that her father had another family at a Southern Hungarian town, Baja, that she had a brother, and that her father was a baptized Jew. From the letters it turns out that her father wanted to take the little boy, Tamás to Italy, but there were always obstacles in the way – and then came 1944. The boy was deported. Anna Maria travelled to Hungary to find her roots.

Director : Róbert Kollár, Sándor Lázs

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 53

Language : Hungarian, Italian

Retrace

A feature film. Katherine, the Holocaust survivor visits Transylvania, Romania departing from Sweden with her family. The past comes to life and she faces reality of Ceausescu’s dictatorship while a romance develops between her husband and sister.

Director : Judit Elek

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 98

Language : Hungarian, Swedish

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

Mama, L'Chaim!

A short documentary. The life of 62-year-old Chaim Lubelski, who lives with his 95-year-old mother in a one-bedroom apartment in a Jewish residential home for the elderly. Chaim’s mother, Nechama, was born in Poland and survived the Nazi concentration camps. Her parents and her first husband were killed in Auschwitz. After the war, she and her second husband, Wolf, also a concentration camp survivor, wanted to emigrate to America, but they were denied because of Wolf’s tuberculosis and forced to stay in Germany. Chaim made it his mission in life to care for them as they got older.

Director : Elkan Spiller

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 6

Language : English, German

The Secret Diary of the Holocaust

Documentary telling the extraordinary tale of a 14-year-old Polish girl, Rutka Laskier, who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943. In 2005, the school notebook in which Rutka recorded her last months in the ghetto of Bedzin was made public, six decades after she hid it under the floorboards of her home there. Rutka was immediately dubbed the "Polish Anne Frank".

Director : Alexander Marengo

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 51

Language : English

A Secret

Based on Philippe Grimbert's fact-inspired novel, Un secret tells of a French-Jewish family torn apart during the Nazi occupation. Francois is Parisian who's informed his elderly father has gone missing. This triggers flashbacks to 1955, when he was a shy boy, intimidated by his parents: Tania, a swimmer, and Maxim, a gymnast. The boy's best friend is Louise, who runs a business close to the family's clothing shop. Francois also has an imaginary brother who's fearless and athletic. Discovering an old toy in the attic, Francois pulls a long-hidden truth out of Louise: He once had a half-brother. Prewar scenes...

Director : Claude Miller

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 105

Language : French

CNN Presents: Scream Bloody Murder

CNN documentary report by veteran Christiane Amanpour about the genocide in the world during the 20th century and focusing on units which tried to fight back.

Director : Christiane Amanpour

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 120

Language : English

Lerner's Revenge

Summary: This documentary accompanies Ronny Lerner, an Israeli businessman, on his journey to, and in Poland in order to try and understand what happened to his family in the Holocaust. Lerner discovers that after the family had run away from their village in Poland, his father, Yitzhak Lerner, lived in Warsaw with two women under assumed identities. At the end of the war Lerner senior returned to the place where his family was murdered in order to get revenge. Now Lerner the son arrives there in order to see for himself where everything happened and he even manages to get to the last murderer. The...

Director : Gilad Tokatly

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 60

Language : English, Hebrew, Polish

War's End-Liberation and Disillusionment (Testimonies)

Documentary film that brings the testimony of survivors who despite the liberation from the Nazi camps coped with the loss, the bereavement and the need to return to life - without a home or family to return to.

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 6

Language : Hebrew

Alfred Nakache, The Swimmer of Auschwitz

Documentary on Alfred Nakache born in November 1915 in Constantine, Algeria swimming champion deported to Auschwitz with his family.

Director : Christian Meunier

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 49 51

Language : French

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