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A Matter of Time - Common Fate, Chapter 2

This 2-part documentary film tells the little-known story of the Jewish communities of North Africa (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco) during World War Two, revealing how, had fate not intervened, it was only “a matter of time” until they would share the fate of their fellow Jews in Europe. Through archival and new footage and stills, extensive interviews with surviving eyewitnesses and historians, as well as computer-generated animation, the film depicts Jewish life in North Africa and describes the evidence of plans by German and Italian occupiers to carry out “the final solution” far from the shores...

Director : סרז' אנקרי

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 55

Language : Hebrew

Born in Concentration Camp

Between December 1944 and February 1945, seven Jewish women brought children into the world amidst the terror of Kaufering I, one of Dachau’s eleven satellite camps. While pregnancies were not uncommon in the camps, women and their children were usually murdered. The exhibition in Dachau traces the story of these seven survivors: their lives before deportation, their arrival and imprisonment in the terror camps, their experiences as female prisoners, the discovery of the pregnancies and birth of the children, the reaction of the SS, and finally forced evacuation, liberation and their lives following the...

Director : Eva Gruberová, Martina Gawaz

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 44

Language : German

Triumph of the Spirit

Drama. The story of Salamo Arouch, a Greek-Jewish boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II. Arrested while attempting to help his family and friends escape the Nazi juggernaut, Arouch was slated for extermination. He managed to survive by boxing for his life. He did it at the orders of his SS captors, who gambled on the outcome of Arouch's bouts. With each victory, Arouch go extra bread rations.

Director : Robert M. Young

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 120

Language : English, German

One Day You'll Understand

To be translated

Director : Amos Gitai

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 89

Language : French

If One of Us Should Die

Director : Susanna Edling

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 58

Language : Hungarian

The Eighty First Blow

Documentary film based on archival films and survivor testimonies. The film covers the oppression of Jews under the Nazis and features rare historical footage of concentration camps. The title is derived from a comment by a witness at Adolf Eichmann's trial. According to his testimony, he was whipped 80 times by the Nazis, but was not believed by Israelis after the war; this final doubt of his own people was the "81st blow". The 81st Blow is the first film in the Israeli Holocaust Trilogy by Bergman, Ehrlich and Gouri. It was followed by The Last Sea (1980) and Flames in the Ashes (1985). It was nominated for an...

Director : David Bergman, Haim Guri, Jacko Erlich

Production Year : 1974

Duration : 46

Language : German

A Television Interview with Lili Jacob Meir, 1980.

This PBS documentary tells the story of Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier., a Jewish Hungarian Holocaust survivor that discovered accidentally at Dora concentration camp during the liberation a unique photo album, known today as “The Auschwitz Album”.

Director : W. Press

Production Year : 1980

Duration : 178

Language : English

Pillar of Fire, Part 12 - The Final Solution (1941-1942)

סדרת תעודה בהפקת ערוץ 1 של הטל' הישראלית העוסקת בתולדות התנועה ציונות עד הקמת מדינת ישראל. העבודה על הסדרה החלה ב-1975 ונמשכה כ-4 שנים. שידורה לראשונה ב-1981, עורר וויכוח ציבורי על רקע מחלוקת בעניין ייצוג תרומת יהדות ספרד למפעל הציוני בסדרה. "עמוד האש" מבוססת על תצלומים וסרטי ארכיון מ-30 ארכיונים בארץ ובעולם, ראיונות עם עדי ראייה, ציורים, וגרפיקה. גרסה זאת של הסדרה היא הגרסה המלאה בת ה- 19 פרקים. קריינות מאת השחקן יוסי בנאי.

Director : Gideon Drori, Nissim Mossek

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 60

Language : English

Marianne's Story

This documentary tells the story of Marian Herman (Marianne (Mausi) Hermann Grant), a Holocaust survivor, who is today a painter whose works express her harsh memories from the Holocaust. Herman, resident of Glasgow, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Following the Nazi occupation she was deported to Terezin Ghetto (April 1942) and from there to Auschwitz for seven months (from December 1943), then to Neuengamme and finally to Bergen Belsen (July 1944) where she stayed till the liberation by British forces on April 15, 1945. After the war she married a German Jew, moved to Sweden and then to Scotland. Including...

Director : Rex Bloomstein

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 34

Language : English

Survivor Jack Gutterman

This is an interview with Jack Gutterman, a Holocaust survivor from a small town near Krakow, Poland. Gutterman was 14 years old when he arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau and separated from the eight members of his family. Only one sister, Ethel, survived the war. Gutterman was tattooed and sent to work in the crematorium. He sorted the victims’ belongings for a year. With the approach of the liberating forces, Gutterman was sent out of the camp on a death march to Buchenwald in temperatures of 25 degrees below freezing. He was also evicted from there and sent on another death march but managed to escape along...

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 93

Language : English

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