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Mary Grünfeld Wilk Sanders Holocaust Story

A testimony. MarY was born in 1912 in Tarnov, Poland and grew up in Berlin, Germany. After the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, Jewish life in Germany in general and in Berlin in particular began to become unbearably difficult. The situation became even worse after Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938. As a result, Mary and her family looked for a way to escape from Nazi Germany. Mary eventually managed to get a visa to Brazil. On December 7, 1939, Marie arrived at Safety to Rio de Janeiro. About a month later, her mother arrived as well. Mary did not learn the Portuguese language systematically but from...

Director : Giselle Heimann Ratain

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 37

Language : English, German

המפוחית שהצילה את חיי

A testimony. Testimony of Zvi (Horst) Cohen, a member of Kibbutz Maabarot, born in Berlin in 1931. Zvi tells of his childhood in Germany, before Adolf Hitler came to power, and after that, living under the Nuremberg Laws, during Kristallnacht 1938, and during World War II. On May 7, 1943, Zvi and his parents were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Since he knew how to play German folk songs, at the time of his arrest, Zvi played the harmonica. He and his parents survived for two years in the Theresienstadt ghetto until the end of the war. The testimony was first broadcast on Holocaust...

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 93

Language : Hebrew

You Won't Get Me!

A documentary movie. A historical road movie of Manfred Weil. He tells about Oyssey during the time of shoah. Weil used tricks outmaneuver all the Nazi bureaucracy and their collaborators in order to flee concentration camps and to survive. After the war, Weil became a wonderful artist who most of the time focused with his paintings on beautiful subjects - above all women. Manfred Weil survived every kind of distress until he died of a natural death aged nearly 95. The film was shown at stranger than fiction 2016, Germany. .

Director : Werner Muller

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 119

Language : German