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Documentary about the lesser known transports of the Czechoslovakian Jews to the concentration camps in Poland. The testimonies of the survivors are complemented by the unique archive material.

results.listIds.director : Lukáš Přibyl

results.listIds.year : 2009

results.listIds.duration : 90

results.listIds.lang : Czech, English

The Wanda Lists, Part 2

Wanda Sokolowska was 86 years old at the time of filming. During the Holocaust of World War Two, she rescued abandoned Jewish children whose parents were seized by the Nazis and sent to be exterminated. Wanda picked them up from the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto. At the time, she was young, blonde, beautiful and involved with a Nazi officer. She managed to get inside the Jewish ghetto and transfer the children to convents or Polish foster families. The film portrays these “children”, now adults with families of their own. At the time they were small and confused and many of them were unable to remember...

results.listIds.director : Vered Berman, Marko Meger

results.listIds.year : 1995

results.listIds.duration : 64

results.listIds.lang : English, Hebrew, Polish

A Life for a Life

This documentary "A Life for a life," tells the stories of Poles who saved Jews during the Second World War - hide, feed, protect, but as such risked the death of the whole family. The document was carried out by cities, towns and villages Polish, in which the tragic events was happened. The protagonists are the witnesses of those events, but often their children and grandchildren.

results.listIds.director : Arkadiusz Gołębiewski

results.listIds.year : 2007

results.listIds.duration : 33

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Henryk Sławik - The Polish Wallenberg

Documentary about Henryk Sławik -Polish journalist and politician. During World War II, he gave assistance to Polish refugees, including Jews, in Hungary. As President of the Citizen's Committee for Help for Polish Refugees, he organized help for interned soldiers and civilian refugees after the defeat in September 1939. Together with Jószef Antall, a representative of the Hungarian government, he provided the refugees false documents, which saved many of their lives. He also saved many Jewish children, for whom he helped to create an orphanage in Vác near Budapest. It is estimated that Henryk Sławik saved...

results.listIds.director : Marek Maldis, Grzegorz Łubczyk

results.listIds.year : 2004

results.listIds.duration : 30

results.listIds.lang : English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish

The Heavens Will Open for You - The Story of Malka Rosenthal

This film chronicles the Jewish community in Stanislawow, Eastern Galicia, through the story of Malka Rosenthal. Malka was born in Stanislawow in 1934, the eldest daughter of a wealthy, intellectual family. Over the course of the German occupation, she lost her mother and younger brother. Her father joined the partisans, and Malka was handed over to a Polish family. For one and a half years, she was kept hidden in a barrel underground. After liberation, she was one of the survivors aboard the illegal immigrant ship “Exodus”, and eventually arrived in Israel in 1948. Malka rebuilt her life through her work and...

results.listIds.director : Zvika Nevo

results.listIds.year : 2009

results.listIds.duration : 54

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

The Eternal Eve

During WW II, a Hungarian child in a concentration camp is saved and raised by a Polish family. After 19 years, the young woman publishes a letter in local papers looking for her long-lost family. This documentary from Laszlo Nadasy follows the search for her relatives, commenting on the realities she faced in the camp and the emotions of those involved in her life.

results.listIds.director : László Nádasy

results.listIds.year : 2005

results.listIds.duration : 87

results.listIds.lang : Hungarian

Eva A 5116

During WW II, a Hungarian child in a concentration camp Eva Krcz is saved and raised by a Polish family. After 19 years, the young woman publishes a letter in local papers looking for her long-lost family. This documentary from Laszlo Nadasy follows the search for her relatives, commenting on the realities she faced in the camp and the emotions of those involved in her life.

results.listIds.director : László Nádasy

results.listIds.year : 1964

results.listIds.duration : 7

results.listIds.lang : Hungarian

Eva A 5116

results.listIds.director : László Nádasy

results.listIds.year : 1963

results.listIds.duration : 87

results.listIds.lang : Hungarian

The Wanda Lists, Part 1

הכתבה "ילדים ללא שם" אשר שודרה במסגרת תוכנית ערוץ 1 של הטל' הישראלית "מבט שני". הכתבה עוסקת בואנדה סוקולובסקה, פולניה אשר הצילה ילדים יהודים בתקופת השואה. הסרט כולל ראיון עם סוקולובסקה ועם כמה מהילדים שניצלו על ידה.

results.listIds.director : Marko Meger, Vered Berman

results.listIds.year : 1994

results.listIds.duration : 50

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Polish

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...

results.listIds.director : Michał J. Dudziewicz

results.listIds.year : 2002

results.listIds.duration : 45

results.listIds.lang : Polish

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