Summary:
Documentary film about Japanese Righteous Among the Nations Sempo Sugihara who was a Japanese diplomat in Kovno, Lithuania during World War II and stood not only against the oppression of the Axis powers (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Japan) but also against the long-standing tradition of compliance. A man of conscience, he went against his country's policy by issuing visas to more than 6,000 Jews during World War 2, which allowed them to escape from the Nazis. Jan...
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...
Documentary film dealing with the rescue of Bulgarian Jews in the Second World War, based on sixteen years of research conducted by the director of the film, Jacky Comforty. He was born in Israel in the 1950s and is the son of Bulgarian exiles. Comforty’s research includes individual testimonies describing the events, a collection of documents from archives in Bulgaria, Israel and other countries and a collection of archival footage and photographs. The result is a film showing how the time of the Holocaust produced values, loyalty, solidarity and anti-racisms leading many Bulgarians to act against the...
סרט תיעודי. 12,000 יהודי תראקיה ומקדוניה, שסופחו בהסדר בין מלך בוריס בולגריה לבין גרמניה הנאצית, גורשו ונרצחו. לנוכח ההתנגדות העממית לגירוש נוסף, המלך בוריס חדל לשתף פעולה עם גרמניה ונעצר את דחייתם של היהודים של בולגריה גם מגירוש והכחדה. 49,172 מביא את הבריחה הדרמטית של יהודי בולגריה ואת הצלתם לאחר המלחמה של בני ארצם היהודים. חקירה עוצמתית של רדיפות וישועות מתעוררת לחיים באמצעות ניצולי השואה עצמם, מכבדת את מצילי הקהילה היהודית בבולגריה, ומוקירה כבוד למעשי האומץ ההרואיים שלהם כשהם מתריסים נגד התנודדותם המוחלטת של השלטון הנאצי.