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Diary of the last heroes - the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising

This documentary presents testimony of fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising recollecting their memories and visiting the places where it happened. Includes photographs and archival film.

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 21 22 48

Language : English, German, Polish, Yiddish

The Truth About Auschwitz

Program of the German television network ZDF which was produced in 1995 to mark 50 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Survey of the camp activities through survivor testimonies, testimonies of former SS men, photographs, archival films, a memorial ceremony.

Director : Guido Knopp

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 56

Language : German

Es Steht mir zu, zu Leben

עדותה של Esther Bejarno שהיתה באושוויץ וברבנסברוק

Director : Lorreta Walz

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 30

Language : German

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Eli Rosenberg, Kalman Tajgman and Samuel Willenberg today are the last witnesses of rebel in Treblinka. The survived because they managed to escape in August 1943 with a group of other prisoners. 60 years after they tell about the nightmare that Treblinka was.

Director : Maciej Starczewski

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 25

The Wall

Adapted by Millard Lampell from his own 1960 Broadway play, which was inspired by John Hersey's 1950 novel, The Wall tells of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943. The story is told through the eyes of Warsaw Jew Dolek Benson (Tom Conti) who is a passive observer of the atrocities all around him until he learns the truth about the Nazi's "resettlement" program. Rachel Roberts, cast as Regina Kowalski, a former schoolteacher, made her final appearance in this film. Filmed on location in Sosnowiec, Poland, and first telecast February 16, 1982, The Wall earned a Peabody Award the following year.

Director : Robert Markowitz

Production Year : 1982

Duration : 135

Language : English

סמינר אנשי עדות שלב א', 13 נובמבר- 17 בנובמבר 2005 - חלק 1

Testimonies of leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising make up the soundtrack of this compilation film utilizing archival footage. “Flames in the Ashes” is the second of three films on the Holocaust produced by the Ghetto Fighters’ House, and includes an original score by Yossi Mar-Chaim. Yehuda Bauer was the historical consultant. Footage: Memorial ceremony, for the Perished of the Warsaw ghetto. Footage: Hitler on the train, riding passed mobs. Footage: Nazi train arrives in Paris, France, Nazis march in France. Footage: Fascist leader of France speaks, Facist...

Production Year : 2005

Language : Hebrew

Choosing One's Way - Resistance in Auschwitz Birkenau

This documentary deals with the little-known resistance of summer 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Through the smuggling of gunpowder from a nearby munitions factory, the inmates succeed in rising up against their oppressors and in the destruction of Crematorium 4. "If not for the living, so for dying in honor", says one of the thirteen witnesses who tell their story here. Harsh testimonies from the survivors; imprisonment in the camp, the resistance, and circumstances of their survival. Narration and presentation by, Ellen Burstyn, the academy awards winner American actress.

Director : Allen Secher, Ted Kay

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 30

Language : English

Sobibor Sobibor (Lanzmann)

Claude Lanzmann interviews Sobibor revolt participant and survivor Yehuda Lerner in a style reminiscent of his magnum opus "Shoah". Lanzmann originally met Lerner while working on "Shoah", and decided to dedicate an entire film to the story of the revolt as told by Lerner. As in "Shoah", no archival materials are used, and Lerner's testimony determines both form and content. At the end of the film, Lanzmann's voice is heard reading lists of the names of all of those deported to Sobibor, with the lists on screen. The result is chilling.

Director : Claude Lanzmann

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 95

Language : Hebrew

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Final part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Liberation and Revenge’ completes the history of Auschwitz. As the end of the war approached, Auschwitz officers tried to hide the evidence of their crimes but were not completely successful. After liberation, survivors searched for their family and tried to return to their prewar homes, but former communities and neighbors did not always welcome them. As evidence of war crimes emerged, some senior SS officers were tried and convicted; others were allowed to resume their lives. Over 4 years, 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz and 1.1 million people died...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Fifth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Murder and Intrigue’ explores the web of international politics spun during the last nine months of 1944. By that spring, the Allies knew about Auschwitz and had the military capability to bomb it. Yet despite the pleas of Jewish leaders, the British and Americans decided not to bomb the railways or gas chambers. During the spring and summer, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz at a time when the killing machinery had been honed to perfection. That autumn saw a significant act of resistance in Auschwitz, when a group of Jewish...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

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