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Wilhelm Brasse Fotograf 3444 - Auschwitz 1940-1945

Summary: Documentary. In March of 2010 Maria Anna Potocka conducted an interview with Wilhelm Brasse. The outcome is a book with edited tales of the prisoner-cum-chief-photographer of Auschwitz, as well as a film with excerpts of the interview. There is an introduction by historian Teresa Wontor-Cichy, academic editor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The book is generously illustrated with photographs from Wilhelm Brasse’s own archives, as well as the Photographic Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Yad Vashem.

Director : Maria Anna Potocka

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 43

Language : German, Polish

צלם מלחמה

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever

Director : Christian Frei

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 100

Language : English, German

One Family's Story - Surviving the Holocaust

Short documentary film made by 17-years old student Sally Enfield Rabinowitz, who travels with her mother to Germany and London to do a photo essay and research about her family's escape from Nazi Germany with the help of the Leitz family.

Director : Sally Enfield Rabinowitz

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 10

Language : English

Julia of Warsaw

Meeting in Warsaw with Julia Pirotte, committed to alongside the French Resistance during the war, she photographed the daily lives of his fellow combat as well as scenes of ordinary life in time of the Occupation. It reflects his own history, standing on Leica III while accompanying everywhere.

Director : Jean-Pierre Krief

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 26

Language : French

Here I Learned to Love

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

זעם האלים

By taking us on a dense and multi-layered, beautiful travel through all the world's infrastructure, Périot leaves us puzzled by ending on the dead-end street of a former world-war II concentration camp.

Director : Jean-Gabriel Périot

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 10

Language : Silent Film

A Day In The Warsaw Ghetto - A Birthday Trip In Hell

A documentary film. At the outbreak of World War II, 380,000 Jews lived in Warsaw, about a third of the city's population. In the fall of 1940, the the Germans transferred them to the ghetto. On November 19, 1982, Günther Schwarberg, the editor of the German magazine "Der Stern" was invited to the home of an 84-year-old man, from whom he received a yellowing envelope with 140 negatives of photos he had taken 41 years earlier, during World War II. This man was Heinz Jost. who took pictures at the ghetto . The film combines archive footage, photographs by Joest, and excerpts from the diaries of Emmanuel...

Director : Jack Kuper

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 30

Language : English

From Auschwitz - Born Free, Part 7

תיעוד ביתי המגולל את קורותיו וקורות משפחתו בשואה של ניצול שואה יוצא מלאבה משה פלס (פולטוסק), (Moshe Peles-Poltusker). פרק הזה מספר על בית אביו של מר' פלס, כנס עולמי של יוצאי מלאבה ב-1992 וטיול בארץ של משתתפי הכנס.

Production Year : 2010

Language : Hebrew

Photographer

In 1987, in a Viennese antique shop, a few hundred colour slides were found. The slides documented the life in Lodz Ghetto. Through this slides collection, Arnold Mostowicz, survivor that who was Jewish physician in the ghetto, tells his memories.

Director : Dariusz Jablonski

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 71

Language : German, Polish, Yiddish

Free Fall, Private Hungary, part 10

Episode 10 in director’s Péter Forgács series "Private Hungary" which is based on a home footage that document the daily life of the Hungarians, before, during and after WWII. This experimental film is based on home movies, documenting the family life of Hungarian Jews from 1937 until the German occupation in 1944. This is a joint effort of the film director Péter Forgács and György Pető, an amateur photographer whose dozens of reels of film were made by Forgacs into a cinematic testimony about Hungary during the war and the German occupation.

Director : Peter Forgacs

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 71 75

Language : English, Hungarian

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