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פסיכיאטריה תחת שלטון הנאצי - זיכרון ואחריות

On 26 November 2010 the German Association for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGPPN) held a commemorative event to honour the memory of those who suffered through one of the darkest chapters in the history of the discipline. Under National Socialism, psychiatric patients were the victims of unethical research, forced sterilisation and murder, and many psychiatrists were forced to emigrate. During the commemorative event, the DGPPN asked victims and their families for forgiveness for the pain and injustice they endured in the name of German psychiatry and at the hands of German psychiatrists. The enclosed DVD...

Production Year : 2010

Language : German

Faith, The story of Jack Aldewereld

A short documentary. Jack Aldewereld was born as a Jewish boy during World War II. When he was six months old, he had to go into hiding. He ended up in Brunssum, in Limburg: a mining town where more than 250 Jewish children were rescued during the war. The movie takes you goes to the town together with Chief Rabbi Jacobs to investigate Brunssum's resistance history. What is the story of Jack Aldewereld? How did he discover his real identity? And what can young people today learn from his story?

Director : Alexander Blom, Paola Van Oordt, Sara Van Oordt

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 21

Language : Dutch, English