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Summary: A television documentary about the Jewish community in Indonesia during World War II. In the 1930s and during World War II, many Jews from Eastern Europe arrived in Indonesia and settled there. Evidence of the prosperity of Jewish life in Indonesia during the interwar period is the Zionist newspaper "Erets Israel" which appeared from 1926 to the beginning of the Japanese occupation continuously. At the same time, even before the Japanese occupation, the Jews suffered from anti-Semitism, mainly by Dutch elements who later became part of the Dutch Nazi Party. In January 1942, Indonesia was occupied...

Director : איתי ורד

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 18

Language : English, Hebrew

John Rabe

A feature film. The story of John Rabe. Rabe was manager of Siemens China when the Japanese attacked the then capital Nanjing in 1937. Appalled by events and driven by simple humanitarian concerns, Rabe helped create a safety zone that’s said to have saved the lives of around 200,000 people.

Director : Florian Gallenberger

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 134

Language : Chinese, English, German, Japanese

Hrror in the East - Part Two – Death Before Surrender

During the years leading up to World War II, the citizens of Japan were encouraged to look upon their Emperor as a god. This divine loyalty to their leader was transferred to the battlefield, where soldiers and Kamikaze pilots were willing to fight to the death rather than face defeat or capture. As the allies gained the upper hand, the self-destructive tactics of the Japanese grew more extreme.

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 48

Language : English, Japanese

Hrror in the East - Part One – Turning Against the West

סדרת דוקו דרמה של הBBC. During the First World War, POWs in Japan were treated remarkably well. What happened in the intervening years that led the nation to commit such inhumane atrocities in World War II? This series probes the Japanese belief at the time of racial superiority and the mentality that drove Kamikaze fighters. Newly unearthed archive material reveals horrific stories involving cannibalism and crucifixion.

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 46

Language : English

Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking

דוקו דרמה. About a young Chinese-American author's journey into the darkest reaches of humanity as she researched and wrote her best selling book "The Rape of Nanking". Iris Chang's harrowing experience and dogged determination uncovers in graphic detail the forgotten holocaust of World War II when almost 300,000 Chinese women, children and soldiers were in a matter of weeks systematically raped, tortured and murdered by the invading Japanese forces

Director : Anne Pick, William Spahic

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 103

Language : Chinese, English