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Oberammergau - The Passion Story and the Jews

This documentary presents the theatre performance “The Passion” which deals with the trial and death sentence of Jesus and is performed in Obermmergau, Germany, every 10 years. Obermmergau is a Bavarian village with thousands of inhabitants, mostly orthodox Catholics. The performance “The Passion” was written and performed by locals. It was first performed in the 17th century to honor Jesus as none of the locals had died from the black plague that was spreading through Europe at that time. For the inhabitants of the village, the play was a religious experience that also proved financially rewarding as it...

Production Year : 1980

Duration : 20

Language : English

הרבי והקצין הגרמני

סיפור הצלתו המיוחד והמוזר של הרבי מלובאביטש במלחמת העולם השנייה. רב-סרן ארנסט בלוך, היה קצין גרמני מעוטר בוורמכט הגרמני ושירת כסוכן במודיעין הגרמני, אבל הוא היה גם יהודי למחצה.

Director : Larry S. Price

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 55

Language : English

22 השורות - דרשת הרבי מבעלז

Director : בני כרמלי, שלמי ברמור

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 24 25

Language : Hebrew

The unvieling ceremony of the monument in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Kibbuts Netzer Sereni

Short home video.Former first Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion attended the unvieling of the monument in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Kibbutz Netzer Sereni. The monument was sculpted by Batya Lishansky. The host of the event was the late Rabbi Dr. Zvi-Herman Azaria Helfgott. In the front row are Ms. Malka Azaria-Helfgott nee Bodner, sculptor Batya Lishansky, Zionist leader and Isaak Ben zvi's widow Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, Rabbi Dr. Zvi-Herman Azaria Helfgot, former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Israel Lerner, a member of Kibbutz Netzer Sirni, a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen camp..

Production Year : 1968

Duration : 6

Language : Silent Film

David

Based on the book by Joel Koenig, this film tells a survival story of a Jewish boy in Berlin during WWII. David, the son of a rabbi, is left alone after his family's deportation and goes underground. Through series of shifting circumstances he manages to survive in the war-torn city and immigrate to Palestine after the war. "Golden Bear", 1st prize at the Berlin Film Festival of 1979.

Director : Robert Markowitz

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 123

Language : German

The Poet

A young German officer and the daughter of a Rabbi find their blooming relationship threatened by the onset of World War II. The setting is German occupied Poland, and Europe is finally feeling the full devastation of Hitler's might. German Officer Oskar and his Jewish girlfriend Rachel are deeply in love, but tragically torn apart by the violent village massacres that spread like a plague across the land. Convinced that she will never be reunited with her true love, expectant mother Rachel reluctantly marries respectable Jewish man Bernard, who longs to earn her love by raising her child as his own. Later, when...

Director : Damian Lee

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 90

Language : English, French

Friends, Enemies and Spies

סרט תיעודי קצר על ספרו של בריאן מארק ריג "חיילים יהודים של היטלר" וסיפור הצלה של רבי מלובאביץ בידי חיילים יהודים בצבא הנאצי.

Director : Larry S. Price

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 14

Language : English, Hebrew

In the Warmth of The Holy Fire

During the horrible years of the Holocaust, God sent down the wonderful figure of the Admor from Pisczina. His entire family perished in the Ghetto but he continued to lead until he died. This film introduces us to one of his last students, Haim Kaner.

Director : זאביק הראל

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 20

Language : Hebrew

The Legacy of Jedwabne

The story of the Jedwabne massacre continues to be a painful wound in the hearts and minds of both Polish Christians and Jews. One can only hope that true history reveals itself in all of our lives, even if this occurs several generations later. This thought-provoking film will spark dynamic dialogue about the importance of historical memory for negotiations of cultural identity and for Jewish-gentile relations; by initiating and encouraging this dialogue, this film will increase tolerance and understanding, thereby forging new alliances between Jews and non-Jews.

Director : Slawomir Grunberg

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 72

Language : English, Polish

Hatvanadik gyászünnepély 2004, junius 20-án a gyórmekszigeti temetőben. Megemlékezés Dr. Róth Emil főrabbiról a gyóri neológ templomban. Emléktábla avatás a templom falán és utcanév adás a templom melletti utcának

50th Anniversary Memorial service, 20th June 2004, at the Gyorsziget cemetery. Recollections by the Chief Rabbi Dr Roth Emil in the synagogue in GYOR, putting up a memorial on the wall of the synagogue and naming the street next to the synagogue.

Production Year : 2004

Language : Hungarian

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