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Dramatic film about Max Baumstein, (Michel Piccoli), a well-known European human rights activist and avowed pacifist, who murders a politician from South America, and is tried for his crime. It turns out that his victim was a Nazi war criminal who ordered the deaths of thousands of people, including Baumstein's parents. Flashbacks reveal Max coping with the horrors of Nazi-occupied France, and Elsa Weiner, (Romy Schneider), who saved his life while struggling to free her husband Michel from a concentration camp. Based on novel by Joseph Kessel.

Director : Jacques Rouffio

Production Year : 1982

Duration : 110

Language : French, German

Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Einstein's Letter

"Einstein's Letter", part of the History Channel's Ten Days series, deals with specific side in the history of the Atomic Bomb. On December 6, 1941, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, a letter was delivered to President Roosevelt. It came from Albert Einstein, the famous Jewish-German scientist that was exiling in the US. The letter brought news and a concern: it was not only possible, but imperative that the United States build a nuclear bomb before the Nazis who were already at work on such a device. Behind the letter lay a story of scientific discovery and political intrigue. The hero of this behind-the-scenes tale...

Director : John Maggio, Barak Goodman

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 60

Language : English

The Nazi Rise to Power

הצגת התהליך ההיסטורי, שסלל את הדרך לעלייתם של הנאצים לשלטון תיאור דמותה של התנועה הנציונלי-סוציאליסטית ומנהיגה אדולף היטלר והצגת מגוון תגובות של מתנגדים פוליטיים.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 7

Language : Musical Score

Honorable Mr. Morgenthau

A documentary. The documentary is about the United States of America's immigration policy during the Holocaust. Throughout most of the 1930s and World War II, the United States government deliberately kept the influx of European Jews to America well below America’s official immigration quota for that part of the world. This policy, rooted in a variety of political concerns, as well as frequently transparent anti-Semitism left millions with no haven from the Nazi terror, and emboldened Hitler to transition from a policy of Jewish emigration to extermination.

Director : Hilan Warshaw

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 95

Language : English

Never Again: The Fight Against Antisemitism

A documentary..Josh Frydenberg, former Treasurer of Australia, investigates the devastating impact of antisemitism on Australia. For Frydenberg, this issue goes beyond politics. It is about the kind of country Australia should be. Following the devastating attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7 last year, the documentary examines the rise in hostility towards Jewish people taking place around the world at levels not seen since the Holocaust. From the steps of the Sydney Opera House to the heartland of Melbourne's Jewish community in Caulfield, the escalation of antisemitism has been widespread and...

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 60

Language : English

ארצות הברית והשואה - פרק 2 -

A documentary television series. As World War II begins, Americans are united in their disapproval of Nazi brutality but divided on whether to act. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Meanwhile, Charles Lindbergh and isolationists battle with Roosevelt to try to keep America out of the war. Germany invades the Soviet Union and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

Director : Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 138

Language : English

March 68

A feature film. Two young students meet and fall in love in the midst of social turmoil and Jewish discrimination in 1960s Warsaw. While the young lovers are uninterested in politics, they find themselves unable to avoid the subject when the girl's parents lose their jobs due to the anti-Semitic purge and are forced to emigrate. The two do not want to leave each other , and they participate in a protest rally at the university where they discover freedom comes at a high price. The film was screened at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival 2022.

Director : Krzysztof Lang

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 115

Language : Polish

הדוח - ערוץ 14 , 4.7.2022 - ביקור ראש הממשלה יאיר לפיד ביד ושם

כתבת טלוויזיה . הכתבה שודרה במסגרת התוכנית "הדוח" ששודרה בארוץ 14 בתאריך 4.7.22. אראל סגל מותח ביקורת על כך שראש הממשלה החליפי, מר יאיר לפיד, בחר לבקר , לאחר כניסתו לתפקיד, ביד ושם ולא בכותל .

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 7 דקות

Language : Hebrew

The Law

A feature film. Born in France in the 1920s, Simone Veil studied politics at Paris prestigious Sciences Po until she and her family were deported to the extermination camps during World War II. Though she lost her parents and a brother, Veil managed to survive both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, an experience that taught her to fight and which would prepare her for her battles for women's rights in the decades ahead. After the war, she rose in the national government, becoming Chiracâ's minister of health in 1974 and the driving force behind a then controversial law to legalize abortion in France in the 1970s.

Director : Christian Fauré

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 87

Language : French

To Bear Witness

A documentary film. The movie focuses on the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps by the Allied Armies in 1945. It captures the reunions of survivors and liberators at the First International Liberators Conference and explores the memories of those who survived the Holocaust and the men and women who liberated the camps. Includes captured Nazi footage and still photographs from personal archives. Presented by Elie Wiesel.

Director : Gavin P. Boyle

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 57

Language : English

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