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A Day In The Warsaw Ghetto - A Birthday Trip In Hell

A documentary film. At the outbreak of World War II, 380,000 Jews lived in Warsaw, about a third of the city's population. In the fall of 1940, the the Germans transferred them to the ghetto. On November 19, 1982, Günther Schwarberg, the editor of the German magazine "Der Stern" was invited to the home of an 84-year-old man, from whom he received a yellowing envelope with 140 negatives of photos he had taken 41 years earlier, during World War II. This man was Heinz Jost. who took pictures at the ghetto . The film combines archive footage, photographs by Joest, and excerpts from the diaries of Emmanuel...

Director : Jack Kuper

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 30

Language : English

A Film Unfinished

A documentary . This film is about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.

Director : Yael Hersonski

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 89

Language : English, German, Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Lonely Uprising

משדר מיוחד של ערוץ 1 של הטל' הישראלית בהנחיית רם עברון לציון 50 שנה למרד גטו וורשה.

Director : Zvi Salfon

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 77

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

The Sun Rises Again

A documentary film about the "Surviving Remnant" (She'erit Hapleita), and the question of Jewish identity in Poland after the Holocaust. The film records the extraordinary efforts made by the Zionist movement, the JDC and the Polish government to create a new life for the survivors, focusing on their rehabilitation in Poland . "The Sun Rises Again" is composed of segments from films directed by Nathan Gross and produced by Yitzhak Goskind in Poland between 1946-1949, as part of their activity in the Kinor Cooperative for Jewish Film. Among the films quoted are: "Mir Lebengeblibene" (We Who...

Director : יעקב גרוס

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 55

Language : Hebrew

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כתבה טלוויזה. שודרה בתוכנית "ערב ערב" בתאגיד השידור "כאן" בתאריך 10.7.18. דבר גלהר מראיין את פרופ' גדעון גרייף. בתגובה לדבריה של פרופ' דינה פורת, ההסטוריונית הראשית של "יד ושם" בהתייחסה לחוק הפולני. פרופ' גרייף מצטט מיומנו האישי של אהרון חיים קפלן, ומארכיון "עונג שבת" של ד"ר עמנואל רינגלבלום ז"ל באשר לחלקם של הפולנים בהשמדת היהודים בפולין.

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 7

Language : Hebrew

Who Will Write Our History

A Documentary film. Who Will Write Our History tells the untold story of a resistance group in the Warsaw Ghetto who risked their lives so that the truth would survive even if they did not. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, this clandestine organization established the Oneg Shabbat Archives and on the eve of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, buried hundreds of thousands of eye-witness accounts and recordings that would “let the world read and know.” Who Will Write Our History is based entirely on the letters and diaries of the secret archive, read by Adrien Brody and Joan Allan and brought to life in on-screen...

Director : Roberta Grossman

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 90

Language : English, Polish, Yiddish