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The Final Victory - The Felix Zandman Story

This documentary tells the story of Dr. Felix Zandman, a Holocaust survivor who became a known physicist and industrialist whose inventions created a revaluation in the electronically component industry. Zandman was born in 1927 in Grodno, then Poland, and survived the Holocaust in a secret hiding he shared with his uncle and 3 other Jews for 17 months. During his hiding he was thought by his uncle, an engineer, mathematics and physics. After the war he went to France and studied physics and engineering. In the early 60s he moved to the United States and established Vishay co-operation. Some 39 patents are named...

Director : Haim Hecht

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 60

Language : English, Hebrew, Polish

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2000 - Felix Zandman

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2000. Torchlighter Felix Zandman. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew