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A drama. In a poor neighborhood of New York, a Jewish pawnbroker is a survivor from Auschwitz that has no emotions or feelings. He lost his dearest family and friends in the war and his faith in God and belief in mankind. He is haunted by daydreams, actually flashbacks from the period of the concentration camp. Based on Edward Lewis Wallant's Novel "The Pawnbroker".

Director : Sidney Lumet

Production Year : 1964

Duration : 116

Language : English, German, Spanish

Children of the War

This film tells the story of children during the Holocaust, some hidden and some survivors of concentration camps and their post-war traumatic experiences. A gripping account of 8 orphan child survivors: Itta Ben Haiem-Keller, Shewach Weiss, David de Levita, Haim Dasberg, Ruth Tatarko, Channa Cohen Harounoff-de Bock, Rachel Hollander and Haim Peles-Vleeschhouwer.

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 50

Language : English

Timewatch: Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler

An episode in Timewatch, a BBC documentary series exploring new perspectives on historical events. This episode deals with the psychological analysis of Adolf Hitler made in 1943 by Walter Langer, an expert of the CIA, and a team of psychologists. The project was based on an in-depth inquiry and was meant to draw a complete useful psychological profile of the German dictator and would assist the Allies in their attempts to predict Hitler’s next steps. The newfangled work of Langer and his team paved the way to a new discipline in international relations called Political Psychology. The analysis, based on Freud’s...

Director : David Stewart

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

The Cellar

A mono-drama dealing with a Holocaust survivor who is haunted by fears. "The Cellar" is one of the first Israeli films dealing with the Holocaust. The director of the film Natan Gross, born in Krakov and one of the pioneers of Israeli cinema, is himself a victim of the Nazi experience. He managed to survive as a Christian Aryan by using forged papers. The film won the Interfilm Prize at the Berlin Festival in 1964 and was nominated for the festival's "Golden Bear" first prize.

Director : Natan Gross

Production Year : 1963

Duration : 76

Language : Hebrew

Useless Life

Detailed records of Hitler's euthanasia program was aimed at exterminating the feeble, retarted, demented, crippled, deformed and people afflicted with hereditary diseases . Names (and pictures) of the medical staff involved in the project; and of the homes and institutions where the killings took place . Accounts by witnesses, and subsequent fate of the perpetrators . Dr. Werner Katell suggests to Hitler to get rid of all worthless individuals . Letter by AH approving this scheme and naming people in charge of the execution of the euthanasia program .

Director : Peter Neusner

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 50

Language : German