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A documentary film. A unique narrative of the voyage brothers Avner and Itzik took, tracing the roots of their shadowy past. As toddlers, their lives were saved first by their aunt, later by another young woman. Their past included three women who would become their mothers. But all this remained hidden - even from close family and friends. Now 70 year-old, Itzik, and Avner journey into that past, seeking their true identity, and to piece together the puzzle of the incredible story of their survival.

Director : אבי אנג'ל

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 53

Language : Hebrew, Polish

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

Mayim Mayim

On March 22, 1942, the director of the Fürth orphanage, Dr. Isaak Hallemann, his wife Klara, his daughters Eva and Beate-Esther and the 33 orphans were deported to Izbica and from there to the concentration camp Belzec. They never returned. From their fate the idea of a dance project, an homage to the children, was born. A celebration of life and a celebration of encounter beyond all borders, languages, countries and religions. 33 choreographers from all over the world are invited to symbolically adopt one of the orphans. On their behalf, 33 dancers came to Fürth danced for the Fürth orphanage children.

Director : Jakov Sedlar

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 60

Language : English

The Children of Teheran

A documentary. This is the story of the rescue of 717 children from occupied Poland and their grueling journey to Palestine (now Israel) in the winter of 1943. This unprecedented operation took the children, many without their parents, on a tortuous path that led them to distant lands, through Russia, Persia, Yamen and Egypt before they arrived safely in Palestine. For the Jewish settlement, the Children of Teheran were the first survivors of the Holocaust who attested to the horrors of war-torn Europe. Some of these survivors testify in this movie and there are archive photographs and footage.

Director : Yehuda Kaveh

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 63

Language : Hebrew

I've Been Searching My Whole Life...

Director : Wojciech Olejniczak

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 17

Language : Polish

We Live Again!

Among the first movies to deal with the subject of the Holocaust, this documentary about Jewish war orphans opened in New York in September 1948 and has rarely been seen since. According to film critic Jim Hoberman, the film was modeled on Children Must Laugh (Mir Kumen On, 1935), a pre-war Yiddish-language picture about Jewish orphans. The film incorporates newsreels, actual footage of children receiving aid from relief agencies, and a few staged sequences.

Director : M. Bahelfer, O. Fessler, A. Hamza

Production Year : 1946

Duration : 38

Language : French, Yiddish

Unknown Children

Based on testimonies, authentic archival documents and family photos, this documentary tells the story of 52 children of Westerbork transit Camp orphanage. The children, whose identity was unknown, were transported on September 13th, 1944, to Bergen-Belsen and registered in the camp records as 'Gruppe Unbekannte Kinder' (Unknown Children). All but one, they survived and in the summer of 1945 returned to the Netherlands. Since they were only toddlers during that time, they were unable to reconstruct what they had been through. Eight Unknown Children are still looking for information; they describe here their...

Director : Annette Apon

Production Year : 2000

Language : Dutch

Army of Shadows

Report about art-documentary installation focus on the situation of the Jewish individuals compulsorily quartered in this so-called "Jews' House" during the Nazi era. They were compulsorily quartered here prior to their deportation and intended extermination.

Director : Christian Mangels

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 3

Language : German

Sie Sind Frei, Doktor Korczak

A feature film telling the story of the prominent pediatrician and educator Dr. Janusz Korczak. Dr. Korczack does everything in his power to maintain the dignity of the 200 children in his progressive orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto, despite the hopelessness of their situation. Eyewitnesses have testified that an SS Officer exchanged words with Korczak as he escorted the children to the trains that deported them to their death in Treblinka. Whether or not the Germans were offering him his freedom, Korczak chose to accompany the children and to die together with them.

Director : Alexander Ford

Production Year : 1973

Duration : 90

Language : German

Story of the Grandfather

Family film presenting the story of Mordechai Eshel, born in Mogilev, Rumania. During the Holocaust, in an orphanage, at the age of 14, he assumed the name of a 9 year old boy who had died, Berl Donsky. This is how he survived. Eshel, accompanied by his grandson, Dotan Krauss, goes to Yad Vashem to fill out a page of testimony in the name of Berl Donsky. He is assisted by the staff at The Hall of Names and the Archives. The grandfather and grandson also tour the museum and the Valley of the Communities.

Director : איתן בראון

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 25

Language : Hebrew

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