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A Powerful Testimony of Forgiveness - Peter Loth, From Holocaust to New Life

עדות פרונטלית באנגלית מאת פיטר לות' (Peter Loth), ניצול שואה יהודי-גרמני אשר שימש בילדותו לניסויים רפואיים במחנה שטוטהוף (Stutthof). כולל תצלומי ארכיון.

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 116

Language : English

A Blonde Province - Poland and Nazi Racial Obsession

Without prior declaration of war the German army marched on 1 September 1939 in Poland. The attack on Poland, not only marks the beginning of World War II, but also to a large-scale ethnic cleansing. In the course of which thousands of Jews and Christians were driven from their homes, deported and killed. They had to make room for an experiment of racism. In the west of Poland, the Nazis a "blonde provincial planning" should grow up settling ethnic German, the offspring of a Germanic master race.

Director : Jacek Kubiak, Klaus Salge

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 52

Language : German

ליאם

A feature film. Liam is a seven-year-old boy growing up in 1930s Liverpool. Liam's father works at the local shipyard, while his mother keeps the household afloat, pinching pennies, yet keeping spirits high. Life takes a terrible turn when the shipyard closes and Dad loses his job. Humiliated by the fact that his teenage daughter, Teresa, must work as a maid in a wealthy Jewish household, and that his eldest son is the family's major breadwinner, Dad loses his self-respect and becomes disillusioned. A Jewish pawnbroker buys their family trinkets for cash. Their Jewish landlord harasses them for rent. And...

Director : Stephen Frears

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 91

Language : English

The Man I Married

Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America.

Director : Irving Pichel

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 77

Language : English

Hatred

This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker's father was a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939. The film opens with their return to his birthplace in east Germany. For the first time, the filmmaker understands what it must be like to have been the object of hatred, as she watches her father's reaction to the places of his childhood. Returning to...

Director : Mitzi Goldman

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 55

Language : English, German

Rothschild Saga

A television drama. Rothschild stands for one of the most powerful banking families. The representative of the fate of many wealthy Jewish families before World War II. Mayer Amschel Rothschild left the Frankfurt ghetto in 1756 and learned the profession of dealing in coins and banking. In 1811, he transferred a substantial sum to Frankfurt, in return for which the Jewish community received civil rights. To this day, however, the mysterious and fascinating “Rothschild” name is the subject of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and smear campaigns.

Director : Klaus T. Steindl

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 60

Language : English

תעוזה רוחנית - סיפורו של הרב אברהם יהושע השל

A documentary film. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was an inspiring figure of the American 20th Century. He was a mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the entire Civil Rights Movement, a leading critic of the Vietnam War, a champion for Soviet Jews, and a pioneer in the work of interfaith dialogue. Through interviews, archival photographs, and rarely seen footage, the film follows Heschel’s upbringing in Warsaw as part of a Hassidic dynasty, his escape from the Nazis and arrival in New York in the 1940s, and his emergence as one of the most influential voices in the world of religion. The film was...

Director : Martin Doblemeier

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 57

Language : English

The Conspiracy

A documentary and an animation movie. Amid the aftershocks of the French Revolution, many Jews gained civil rights. With the anxiety of a liberalizing Europe, accounts began to spread of secret meetings in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. An influential letter claimed that the “Hebrew sect” was controlling the Jacobins and Freemasons. Jews, once marginalized and vilified on theological grounds, were, with emancipation, held up as master manipulators. Within a generation or two of their new freedoms, three Jewish families with nothing in common would be implicated in the alleged conspiracy, and, soon after,...

Director : Maxim Pozdorovkin

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 90

Language : English

אויבים - כאן 11, עונה 2 פרק - המופתי

סדרת התעודה אויבים, המביאה את סיפורם של מנהיגי ערב, חוזרת בעונה חדשה וחושפת מי היה המופתי, חאג' אמין אל חוסייני. האיש שהפך את הסכסוך לדתי, תבע את המונח "אל אקצה בסכנה" ושיתף פעולה עם השלטון הנאצי

Director : ירון ניסקי

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 55

Language : Arabic, English, Hebrew

Familie Michalski

סרט תיעודי קצר. מתוך סדרת סרטים תיעודיים במסגרת פרוייקט Denk mal am Ort. פרוייקט המנציח שמותיהם של משפחות יהודיות שנרצחו על ידי הנאצים. הפרוייקט מציג את הדיירים הנוכחיים המתגוררים בבניינים שם גרו משפחות יהודיות. משפחת מיכלסקי באה מוורוצלב. ב-1943 נמלטה לילי מיכלסקי לברלין עם בניה פרנץ ופיטר כדי להימלט מהגירוש.במשך כמה שבועות היא הסתתרה עם ילדיה במלונות שונים באלכסנדרפלאץ, מפחדת כל הזמן להתגלות. פרנץ מיכלסקי נולד בגורליץ ב-1934 למשפחה פרוטסטנטית. לפי הגדרת הנאציונל-סוציאליסטים, אביו היה ארי ואמו יהודייה. פרנץ מיכלסקי שרד את רדיפות הנאצים יחד עם הוריו ואחיו הצעיר פיטר רק בעזרת אנשים שסיכנו את חייהם...

Director : Marie Rolshoven

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 10

Language : German

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