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Director : Amos Gitai

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 89

Language : French

May Your Memory Be Love - The Story of Ovadia Baruch

In March 1943, when he was 20-years old, Ovadia Baruch and all his family were deported out of Saloniki to Auschwitz. Upon their arrival, his family was murdered immediately at the gas chambers. During many long months, Ovadia fought to survive and did so until his liberation from Mauthausen in May 1945. During his incarceration at Auschwitz, Ovadia met Aliza Zarfati, a young Jewess from Saloniki. This documentary tells of their unique love and survival story.

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 47

Language : French, Hebrew, Russian

Drei Tage im April

Based on a true story of an event that took place in April 1945 in a small German town. After years of not seeing a train pass through their town, the citizens are surprised to see a cattle train full of concentration camp prisoners. According to the instructions of the SS officers, three carriages are disconnected from the train which continues on. The carriages are guarded by a number of soldiers. Inside are 300 starving prisoners. The film shows the events that happen during three days and focuses on Anna, the young daughter of the local innkeeper. She is shocked by the reactions of her family. When...

Director : Oliver Storz

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 103

Language : German

Paper Clips

What began as a project to understand the Holocaust turned into an event that generates an upheaval in an American community in Tennessee. In the framework of 8th Grade studies in a school in Whitwell, a group of students decided to collect as many paper clips (the anti-Nazi symbol that was adopted by the Norwegians as a sign of support) as possible from all over the world. They collected 30 million and then an authentic cattle car was brought from Germany that was then turned into a memorial site in the grounds of the school. Touching. Directors: Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab. The disc includes additional...

Director : Elliot Berlin

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 84

Language : English

On the Transports to the Death Camps

Documentary film that brings three testimonies about the train journey during transport to the camps.

Director : Noemi Schory

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 9

Language : Hebrew

Station of Pain

Short drama which won critical acclaim in Europe for the haunting story it tells. The story focuses on the new stationmaster at Bobigny - train statoin from which Jews of Paris were herded onto freight trains that bore them to death camps. In a midnight encounter with a survivor who comes to mourn, the stationmaster learns that the mysterious sounds which wake him in the night are sounds of the roundup, echoing through the decades.

Director : Henri Jouf

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 25

Language : French

Polish Jews

Collection of films based on archival films dealing with the Jews of Poland.

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 95

Language : English, Hebrew, Italian, Yiddish

The World At War - Genocide, 1941 - 1945

Episode in a 26-part documentary series that presents a detailed survey of World War II. Episode 20 - " Genocide 1941-1945" When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Heinrich Himmler was already Reichsfuhrer SS. The new status of the Nazi party enabled him to try to realize the dream of the German race. For some time he had redefined the philosophy of Nazism, and ideas of the movement about politics and race. His aims moved in the direction of creating a new "Aryan" Germany. This episode deals with the race policy of Nazi Germany and annihilation of the Jews and other populations during the war. The ideological...

Director : Michael Darlow

Production Year : 1974

Duration : 52

Language : English

The Nazis - A Warning From History - Part 5 - The Road To Treblinka

Fifth part in a BBC documentary series that surveys the history of the Nazis in Germany. The series was produced with the aid of British historian Ian Kershaw and it includes eyewitness testimony, expert analysis, archival films and photographs that were discovered in the countries of the former communist bloc in Europe and are presented here for the first time. This part focuses on the Treblinka death camp, deals with "The Final Solution" and describes the transports of Jews to the death camps and the methods of murder.

Director : Tilman Remme, Laurence Rees

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 50

Language : English

עצם העניין - כאן 11, 1.8.2023 -

כתבת טלוויזיה.

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 9

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