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תיעוד מסע שורשים לעיירה Grzymalow שבאוקראינה.

Director : דני בק, אביבה פינלס

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 28

Language : Hebrew

This documentary film is a collection of 8 films which offer persuasive evidence that, so far, these standards have not been met. Films cover events from the onset of violence in Kosovo (preceding the NATO intervention in 1999), until the most recent terrorist attacks committed by Albanian extremists in 2005, and are, in fact, a unique and exclusive video document about some of the crucial aspects of the current Kosovo crisis.

Director : Ninoslav Randjelovic

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 160

Language : English, Serbian

My Australia

City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without father, and their mother, so busy at work, do not notice when boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only, when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland togather with her family and go to…Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become conscious of their and their family roots.The film is a full of emotions but also humorous tentative of self statement, and in case of both kids...

Director : Ami (tadeusz) Drozd

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 90

Language : Polish

I've Been Searching My Whole Life...

Director : Wojciech Olejniczak

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 17

Language : Polish

Pogrom is Murder? Kielce 4.07.1946

A documentary depicting the murder of Jews in Kielce in 1946, based on the latest studies of Polish Institute Instytut Pamięci Narodowej folk-IPN, interviews with historians and experts, photographs and archival documents and maps of the city.

Director : Artur Janicki

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 32

Language : Polish

Mir Lebengeblibene - We the Living Remnant

Among the first movies to deal with the subject of the Holocaust, this documentary about Jewish war orphans, was screened 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, a pre-war Yiddish-language picture about Jewish orphans. This film incorporates newsreels, actual footage of children receiving aid from relief agencies, and a few staged sequences. An introductory credit reads: "This film is about the children in the Homes and Camps of France, operated under the auspices of the Jewish Union for Resistance and...

Director : Natan Gross

Production Year : 1947

Duration : 60

Language : Yiddish

The Eighty First Blow

Documentary film based on archival films and survivor testimonies. The film covers the oppression of Jews under the Nazis and features rare historical footage of concentration camps. The title is derived from a comment by a witness at Adolf Eichmann's trial. According to his testimony, he was whipped 80 times by the Nazis, but was not believed by Israelis after the war; this final doubt of his own people was the "81st blow". The 81st Blow is the first film in the Israeli Holocaust Trilogy by Bergman, Ehrlich and Gouri. It was followed by The Last Sea (1980) and Flames in the Ashes (1985). It was nominated for an...

Director : David Bergman, Haim Guri, Jacko Erlich

Production Year : 1974

Duration : 46

Language : German

The Pogrom - Kielce, 4 July 1946.

This documentary tells of the Kielce pogrom on July 4th, 1946 in which 42 Hitler’s Polish-Jews survivors were murdered by Polish. Main reasons for the pogrom were rumors that many returning Jews would claim their properties from before the Nazi occupation. Following the Kielce pogrom, hundreds of Polish-Jews immigrated out of Poland and other countries in East Europe. Including interviews with eye-witnesses and archive footages of post war era.

Director : Andrzej Miłosz, Piotr Weychert

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 45

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Love Thy Neighbour, Part 2

חלק 1 בסרט תיעודי בהפקה סלובקית-ישראלית משותפת העוסקת בקהילת יהודי Topoľčany, סלובקיה, אשר מנתה כ- 3,200 איש לפני מלה"ע ה- 2 ולאחריה רק כ- 550. כיום אין כלל יהודים ב- Topoľčany. אלו ששרדו את השואה ושבו ממחנות הריכוז הנאצים היו קורבנות פוגרום ספטמבר 1945, זמן קצר לאחר השחרור. במאי הסרט, דושאן הודק בוחן כאן כיצד ולמה דבר כזה התרחש. היו אלו סלובקים ולא גרמנים שקמו נגד שכניהם. ורצחו אותם. הסרט תוכנן לשידור במאי 2004 בטלוויזיה הסלובקית הציבורית, אך השידור בוטל לפי החלטת הבמאי עקב התבטאויות אנטישמיות אשר נכללות בסרט. כולל עדויות ראייה. יעקב בן-דום, מוסר הסרט, משתתף בו כעד.

Director : Dušan Hudec

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 84

Language : Slovak

Love Thy Neighbour, Part 1

Before the WWII, over 3,200 Jews lived in Topoľčany, Slovakia. After the war 550 remained, and today there are none. Those who returned from the Nazi concentration camps became victims of a pogrom in September of 1945, long after the liberation. This film by Dušan Hudec examines how and why something such as this could have happened. It was Slovaks and not Germans who decided to complete the Aryanization of Topoľčany. "Love Thy Neighbour" was supposed to have had its premiere in May of 2004 on Slovak Public Television, but the director banned it several days before broadcast because of racist declarations made...

Director : Dušan Hudec

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 84

Language : Slovak

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