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A documentary film. The story of Australian animator, Yoram Gross follows the artist and his family through his childhood in Nazi occupied Poland, in Israel, where he began creating animated art films, all the way to Australia. For his popular film series Blinky Bill he received the highest honor in Australia.

Director : Tomasz Magierski

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 75

Language : English, Polish

Terezin

סרט תיעודי על טרזין. כולל עדויות של ניצולי שואה, איורים של ילדי טרזין ופטר גנץ בפרט.

Duration : 108

Language : Japanese

מבט - כתבה על אילן רמון בחללית

Production Year : 2003

Language : Hebrew

Arthur Szyk - Soldier in Art

This film documents the introduction of the artist, activist, and World War II political caricaturist Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) to a group of students and teachers at Mercer Island High School in Seattle, Washington. Irvin Ungar, curator of The Arthur Szyk Society, encourages the students to share their reaction to work that is as vivid, profound, and worthy of discussion today as it was when it was created.

Director : James Ruxin

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 15

Language : English

Interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman

Short interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman,, wife of artist and Holocaust survivor David Friedmann. Friedman was an accomplished artist before World War II and the Holocaust. In October 1941, he was deported from Prague to the Lodz Ghetto, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and to Gleiwitz I. He survived a death march to Blechhammer concentration camp., Oberschlesien, where he was liberated January 25, 1945 by Soviet troops. In 1949, he fled Communist Czechoslovakia to Israel and later immigrated to the United States. Also in this report interview with Muriel Nezhnie-Helfman, (1934-2002) is best known for her...

Director : Kathy Corley

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 8

Language : English

Interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman

Interview with Hilde Taussing Friedman, wife of artist and holocaust survivor David Friedmann. Dav. Friedmann a.k.a. David Friedman was an accomplished artist before World War II and the Holocaust. In October 1941, he was deported from Prague to the Lodz Ghetto, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Gleiwitz I. He survived a Death March to Concentration Camp Blechhammer, Oberschlesien where he was liberated January 25, 1945 by Soviet troops. In 1949, he fled Communist Czechoslovakia to Israel and later immigrated to the United States.

Director : Kathy Corley

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 113

Language : English

Paint What You Rememeber

Mayer was born in 1916 in a small shtetl: Opatow. He completed seven grades of Polish school and immigrated to Canada at age 17. After he retired over 20 years ago, his daughter Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, began urging him to tell and paint whatever he could remember of his childhood. The images yielded by his memory exceeded everyone’s expectations, probably including his own. Mayer’s photographic memory allowed him to meticulously recreate Jewish life in Opatow, as it was before the war.

Director : Slawomir Grunberg

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 30

Language : English, Polish

Broken Heart

The video features moving artwork by Worship Leader / Visual Artist Todd Vaters and a haunting rendition of Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem, sung in Hebrew by Todd. Shavor Lev (Hebrew for "broken heart") recently placed 2nd in the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust short film competition.

Director : Todd Vaters

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 4

Language : Hebrew

ארץ שם

Director : מירה אורן-שורש

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 33

Language : Hebrew

Arthur Szyk - Illuminator

Adocumentary about Arthur Szyk, tthe world renowned graphic artist, book illustrator, caricaturist and stage designer. He is particularly well known for his political caricatures published in Great Britain and the USA during and after the 2nd World War. Szyk, a Polish-Jewish patriot, put forth his worldview in his immortal “Haggadah” and the "Statute of Kalish”. He actively supported Israel. Finding refuge in the USA during the 2nd World War, Szyk he become an American patriot and produced a series of internationally acclaimed paintings: “Washington and his Times” and the “Declaration of Independence”, now in...

Director : Piotr Zarębski

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 55

Language : Polish

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