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Poltawa, Ukraine, beginning of the 1940s, days before the German invasion. Three children, German Hanna, and Jewish Larissa and Abrascha, are best friends and classical music virtuosos; when the War reaches Poltawa, their friendship is put to the test. The young musicians see only one way out: to help each other and to win over the adults by using their musical ability. When a German official comes to town, he suggests that Larissa and Abrascha perform a concert; if they play perfectly, their lives will be spared, if they make a mistake, they will be deported….

Director : Markus Rosenmüller

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 100

Language : German

The American Jewish Composers in Classical Song

A Dudele (A Little Song) – Arr. Leo Low / Text and music: attrib. Reb Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev Sabbath Song – A.W. Binder / Text: Traditional, liturgy Hath not a Jew eyes? The Merchant of Venice, Act II – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco / Text: Shakespeare (First U.S. Performance; first recording) A Petition to the Governor – John Corigliano / Text: William M. Hoffman (World Premiere; first recording) Kol Kara (A Voice Called) – Max Helfman / Poetry: Hannah Senesh Cantare from Sh’ma – Simon Sargon / Poetry: Primo Levi (World Premiere, piano version; first recording) Cartload of...

Director : Regina Resnik

Production Year : 2011

Language : English

A Day In The Warsaw Ghetto - A Birthday Trip In Hell

A documentary film. At the outbreak of World War II, 380,000 Jews lived in Warsaw, about a third of the city's population. In the fall of 1940, the the Germans transferred them to the ghetto. On November 19, 1982, Günther Schwarberg, the editor of the German magazine "Der Stern" was invited to the home of an 84-year-old man, from whom he received a yellowing envelope with 140 negatives of photos he had taken 41 years earlier, during World War II. This man was Heinz Jost. who took pictures at the ghetto . The film combines archive footage, photographs by Joest, and excerpts from the diaries of Emmanuel...

Director : Jack Kuper

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 30

Language : English

Am Grossen Wannsee - The Wannsee Recordings

In this documentary, Israeli and German musicians perform the works of Jewish composers as well as others at the villa where infamous Wannsee conference took place.

Director : Emre Amram Sonmez

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 81

Language : English, German, Hebrew

קונצרט מחווה לכליזמר האחרון מגליציה - לאופולד קוזלובסקי

לאופולד קוזלובסקי, אחרון הכליזמרים מהתקופה שלפני המלחמה בפולין ומי שנשאר בפולין והפך להיות האיש ששומר, מחייה ומשמר את מוסיקת הכליזמר היהודית, הגיע לישראל ב-2007 לקונצרט מיוחד שנערך לכבודו עם תזמורת סימפונט רעננה בשיתוף הרשות הלאומית לתרבות יידיש, שגרירות פולין בישראל ואגודת ידידות ישראל- פולין.

Director : ניב הופמן

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 132

Language : Hebrew

My Heaven is Full of Music - The Israeli Composer Ella Milch-Sheriff

סרט תיעודי על מלחינה ישראלית אלה מילך-שריף, עם דגש מיוחד על האופרה שלה "שתיקתו של ברוך" שמבוססת על יומנים של אביה, ניצול שואה, ברוך מילך.

Director : Aneta Panek

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 29

Language : German

People's Century - Master Race (1933), Total War (1939), Brave new World (1945)

Archival series of 26 programmes looking at the past 100 years. Three chapetrs are relevant: 1933- In this series looking at momemtous events in the twentieth century through the eyes of ordinary people, this programme looks at the rise of Hitler and its consequences. 1939- Civilians recount their experiences of the Second World War. 1945- Brave New World: Charts the meeting of American and Soviet armies on the banks of the Elbe in 1945. American and Russian soldiers talk about that experience. The programme covers the period from victory in the Second World War through the rise of the Cold War to the building...

Director : Jonathan Lewis, John Bridcut

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 107

Language : English

Concert of Jewish Liturgical Music 5770

Concert of Jewish liturgical music “5770”, devoted to the Jewish New 5770 year took place on September 10, 2009 in Latvian National Opera. Participants: male's choir "Balsis" with program "Melodies of the Burned Synagogues" (art director Z. Shulman), choir "Hassidic Capella", conductor A. Tsalyuk, cantor of Riga Choral Synagogue Zeev Shulman, soloists of the Bolshoy Theater, Liepaja Symphonic Orchestra. In the program - Jewish cantors’ music, fragments from operas, popular Jewish songs. Among more than 1 200 visitors there were representatives of Daugavpils, Liepaja, Rezekne, Jekabpils, as well as...

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 120

Language : Latvian, Russian

Es Steht mir zu, zu Leben

עדותה של Esther Bejarno שהיתה באושוויץ וברבנסברוק

Director : Lorreta Walz

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 30

Language : German

טקס יום הזיכרום לשואה ולגבורה בבית עדות, ניר גלים, תשס"ט

Documentary about Holocaust Remembrance Day march that took place in commemoration of 60 years since the founding of Nir Galim. Holocaust survivors and founders of Nir Galim. Includes blessings and speeches, in the presence of Science and Technology Minister Rabbi Professor Daniel Hershkovitz, Head of Council Eliezer (Bini) Binfeld and others. The film shows the life of the settlement over the last sixty years and in so doing shows the story of the State of Israel.

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 102

Language : Hebrew

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