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These are the Generations - David and Tzipporah Friedman

A documentary about David and Tzipporah Friedman, Hungarian Holocaust survivors who ran a children's boarding school "Neve Michael" in which they were active from 1950 to 1986. According to their outstanding pedagogical method a children's Home is a family home: students, staff, manager and all his family are one model unit. In the film Zipporah tells her memoirs, and there are interviews and memories of family members and friends, as well as employees and graduates of the boarding school. Photos of the family home in Budapest and in the ghetto are incorporated as well as archive footage.

Director : אסתר גולדשטיין, פנינה לוין

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 62

Language : Hebrew

Sendler's List

Documentary. Part One: Four high-school girls in a small town in Kansas dramatize and play the story of a Polish woman, Irena Sendler who saved 2,500 children and infants from death in the Holocaust, and visit her at her home. Irena Sandler was a Catholic nurse and a social worker, and a member of the Polish underground Council for Aid to Jews (Żegota) that opposed the Nazis during World War II. In 1943 four months after the Warsaw ghetto was destroyed and burned to the ground, she was appointed the to direct the Zegota's care of Jewish children, and used her connections in orphanages and institutions for...

Director : Michał J. Dudziewicz

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 45

Language : Polish

One Thousand Children - "Exchanging Atrocity for America" 1934-1945

Apres Mein Kampf Mes Crimes (or After Mein Kampf) was perhaps the last anti-Nazi film produced in France before the Nazi occupation. The film, which was released several times under several titles in the U.S. during WWII, traces the life story of Adolph Hitler from his initial involvement in fascist activities to his rise to power. The story ends on a hopeful note, delineating the possibility of Hitler's imminent downfall. Including actual photos and footages.

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 10

Language : English

Ondergedoken - Diel 2

A documentary television series. The 2 nd episode. It tells thr story of Landelijke Organisatie Voor hulp aan Onderduikers. Especially the members of the organization in Friesland, among them those who paid for their help in their lives. This is the story of Sjoerd Wiersma, Uilke Boonstra, Hugo Woerderman, Krijn van der Helm, Jeanne Everhuis, Jan Everhuis, Bernardus de Vries. Jan Everhuis and Bernardus de Vries were murdered in the Vught / KZ Herzogenbusch concentration camp. Krijn van der Helm was shot to death.

Director : Gerard Van Der Veer

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 28

Language : West Frisian

The Woman Rabbi

A documentary. Gisi Fleischmann helped to save thousands of Jews during the dark period of the Slovak and European history. Today, her name is known mostly to historians, but she was once a legendary member of the "Working Group", an underground resistance group active in Slovakia. This documentary" tells the story of the Gisi, torn between the sense of responsibility for her large community and for her own family. The film also bears witness to the way the contemporary Slovak society tries to deal with its past.

Director : Anna Grusková

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 52

Language : Slovak