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A Powerful Testimony of Forgiveness - Peter Loth, From Holocaust to New Life

עדות פרונטלית באנגלית מאת פיטר לות' (Peter Loth), ניצול שואה יהודי-גרמני אשר שימש בילדותו לניסויים רפואיים במחנה שטוטהוף (Stutthof). כולל תצלומי ארכיון.

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 116

Language : English

The Holocaust In Memory Of Millions

Veteran journalist Walter Cronkite, speaking from the then new United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, narrates this story of a Holocaust. Historical records, original footage and personal photographs combine to chronicle the rise of the Nazi Party and their genocidal plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Oral histories from survivors present tales of bravery in the concentration camps. Also include are an interview with Noble Price laureate Elie Wiesel and the inauguration ceremony of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with the presence of president Clinton.

Director : Brian Blake

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 90

Language : English

Investigative Reports - The Mystery of Josef Mengele

Documentary film that describes through testimonies, expert analysis, photographs and archival films the story of the mystery of Josef Mengele, physician and SS officer who succeeded in fleeing Europe after the World War and has never been brought to justice.

Director : Dan Setton

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 50

Language : English

Mediate This and Be: “The Return of the Reason Against Every Shape of Racism”

A documentary film about the Holocaust, Nazism, Racism, Anti-Semitism and Neo-Nazism. Includes photographs and archival footage.

Director : Silvia Brasca

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 16

Language : Italian

My Australia

City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without father, and their mother, so busy at work, do not notice when boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only, when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland togather with her family and go to…Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become conscious of their and their family roots.The film is a full of emotions but also humorous tentative of self statement, and in case of both kids...

Director : Ami (tadeusz) Drozd

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 90

Language : Polish

Hitler's Assistant - Himmler the Executer

Documentary film that deals with Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), a key figure in organizing "The Final Solution" of the Jewish problem and its execution and the second in importance in the Third Reich. The film surveys Himmler's path starting with his joining the Nazi party, his roles, many authorities, his personality, his relations with Hitler, his ideas in the racial area, and his last days. Includes archival documentation and testimonies.

Director : Guido Knopp

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 42 45

Language : German

Alex Lebenstein - The Only Holocaust Survivor from Haltern, Germany, Videos 1-5

עדות מאת אלכס לבנשטיין (Alex Lebenstein), ניצול השואה היחיד מהאלטרן (Haltern), גרמניה, המוצגת בסדרה של 7 סרטים קצרים אשר כל אחד מהם מתמקד בשלב אחר בסיפורו של לבנשטיין. בחלק זה מובאים חלקים 1 עד 5. 1. 'ליל הבדולח', טראומת 'ליל הבדולח' של אלכס לבנשטיין בן ה- 11 2. 'גטו ריגה', משפחת לבנשטיין מאבדת את החופש ונאלצת לעבור לגטו ריגה. 3. 'מחנות עבודה', אלכס לבנשטיין הצעיר מתמודד על עבודת פרך ומחלות. 4. 'שחרור, הקשר לארה"ב', אלכס לבנשטיין אינו רצוי בעיר הולדתו ועוזב לארה"ב. 5. 'התמודדות עם הכעס', "כל כך כעסתי...שנאתי כל מה שגרמני". כך חש אלכס לבנשטיין עם בואו לארה"ב. 6. 'ריפוי',...

Director : Alexa Welch Edlund

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 17

Language : English

Heimat? LOS! - Theater und Medienpädagogik für Integration: Heimweh und Fernweh

Short student film in 3 parts about the difficulties of young Russian immigrants in Germany today.

Director : Allan Mathiasch

Production Year : 2007

Language : German, Russian

A Blonde Province - Poland and Nazi Racial Obsession

Without prior declaration of war the German army marched on 1 September 1939 in Poland. The attack on Poland, not only marks the beginning of World War II, but also to a large-scale ethnic cleansing. In the course of which thousands of Jews and Christians were driven from their homes, deported and killed. They had to make room for an experiment of racism. In the west of Poland, the Nazis a "blonde provincial planning" should grow up settling ethnic German, the offspring of a Germanic master race.

Director : Jacek Kubiak, Klaus Salge

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 52

Language : German

Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

Director : William Miles, Nina Rosenblum

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 75

Language : English

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