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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 Sunken and Rescued Ones

A documentary film presenting conversations with residents of an old-age home for Jewish-Czech Holocaust survivors. Includes drawings, photographs and archival footage.

Director : Ales Kisil

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 28

Language : Czech

My Illusions

A documentaey. The film presents the personal stories of the residents of the Moses Rosen Retirement Home in Bucharest, taking us through the Jewish quarter, in the areas where scenes of antisemitic violence took place during the 1941 pogrom, at the houses of the film’s subjects, and in front of the buildings that played an important role in the life of the Jewish community and Jewish identity before, during and after the war.

Director : Olga Stefan

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 50

Language : Romanian