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הסדרה מגוללת את סיפורן של בחורות יהודיות אשר התגייסו לצבאות השונים במלחמת העולם השנייה, כדי לתרום את חלקן למאמץ המלחמתי למיגור האויב הנאצי.

Director : טובה קורצ'ין

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 34

Language : Hebrew

חקירה היסטורית: D-Day, הטבח הסודי

This episode in Investigating History recalls the heroic collaboration by the 507th paratroopers and French civilians during the battle at Graignes that took place in the first days after the Allied invasion and delayed the SS unit from joining the fight for Carentan - 10-km to the north - thus contributing to one of the most crucial victories on D-Day. 40 years later, this largely unknown story is officially acknowledged, when veterans of the 507th return to France to honor 11 citizens of Graignes with the Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the highest U.S. award a civilian can receive for bravery. Including...

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 50

Language : English

Hanna's War

Drama directed by Menahem Golan about Hannah Szenes the Israeli paratrooper and poet whose character was a symbol of the volunteerism of the Hebrew yishuv in the struggle against the Nazis. The film script is based on the diaries of Szenes (as edited by Yoel Palgi in his book "A Great Spirit Comes").*

Director : Menahem Golan

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 150

Language : English

Match that Set Flames Alight - Mission of Paratroopers at World War Two

Documentary film that tells about induction and training of Eretz-Israel paratroopers, volunteers from among the working settlements and their activity in occupied Europe beside partisans and the undergrounds in Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania through testimnoies and archival films.

Director : Yiftach Shavit

Duration : 24

Language : Hebrew

The Seventh Million - Special Broadcast - Studio discussion about the Holocaust, 1995

"המיליון השביעי, משדר מיוחד" - דיון אולפן על השואה, 1995. משתתפים: משה צימרמן, חיים גורי, מיכאל גלעד, זאב שטרנהל, אורנה בן-דור, חיים דסברג. ראה גם: V-1142/2

Director : יעקב אסל

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 20

The Seventh Million - The Israelis and the Shoah, Part 2.

Based on his book of the same name by Tom Segev, this second part of a ZDF, ARTE and Israel Channel 1 co-production deals with the issue of Israelis and the Holocaust; the attitude of the Jewish establishment towards the Holocaust survivors. The turnabout during the Eichmann Trial and the Holocaust as a constituent part of the Israeli identity. DP camps, the illegal immigration, Aba Kovner, Ben-Gurion, the reparations agreement, Eichmann Trial, Chancellor Adenauer, Yad Vashem, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Holocaust remembrance day, the Israeli youth and the Holocaust, remembrance ceremonies, author K. Zetnik (Yechiel...

Director : יעקב אסל

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 20

Language : Hebrew

A Close Friendship

Shaike Dan, formerly Trachtenberg, parachuted over Romania in 1944 in a desperate attempt to aid Jews under Nazi occupation. Edo Brajnik Stefen was in charge of the Yugoslavian Intelligence Service at the time, and actively helped Dan smuggle Jewish refugees to Palestine. Their story is told in this Slovenian Television documentary featuring testimonies and archival footage.

Director : Mitja Novljan

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 48

Language : English, Hebrew, Slovenian

Charlotte Gray

Based on the best-selling novel (1998) by Sebastian Faulks, this drama, set during World War II, tells the story of Charlotte, a Scottish woman living in London. Charlotte volunteers for work with British intelligence and is soon smuggled into France where she is to work with French resistance movement.

Director : Gillian Armstrong

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 121

Language : English

Hana Senesh's Mission

This documentary tells of Hannah Szenes, the Eretz Israeli parachutist and poet, whose figure became a symbol of the struggling of the Jewish Yeshuv in Eretz Israel against Nazism. The film tells about her family and more specifically about her grandmother and father Bela Szenes, that influanced her personality; her studies at the Agricultural School in Nahalal, her life in the Kibbutz Sdot Yam, and the assignment as a volunteer in Europe. Including photographs and archive films giving evidence of the Jewish Establishment in Eretz Israel at the period of the British Mandate and witnesses. Szenes was born...

Director : Srðan Segariæ

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 28

Language : Hebrew, Serbian-Croatian

The Seventh Million - The Israelis and the Shoah, Part 1.

Based on his book of the same name by Tom Segev, this first part of a ZDF, ARTE and Israel Channel 1 co-production deals with the issue of Israelis and the Holocaust, both at that time and afterwards; The information of the murder of European Jews; the attempts of rescue Jews for money; the Jewish Brigade and the Israeli paratroopers; illegal immigrant ships; Children of Tehran; scenes of liberation of the camps; excerpts from the performance “Kastner” by Motti Lerner; “The March of the Living”. After the airing of Part 1, a studio discussion led by Dan Margalit, with Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Prof. Dina Porat, Rabbi...

Director : יעקב אסל

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 180

Language : Hebrew

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