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Mary Grünfeld Wilk Sanders Holocaust Story

A testimony. MarY was born in 1912 in Tarnov, Poland and grew up in Berlin, Germany. After the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, Jewish life in Germany in general and in Berlin in particular began to become unbearably difficult. The situation became even worse after Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938. As a result, Mary and her family looked for a way to escape from Nazi Germany. Mary eventually managed to get a visa to Brazil. On December 7, 1939, Marie arrived at Safety to Rio de Janeiro. About a month later, her mother arrived as well. Mary did not learn the Portuguese language systematically but from...

results.listIds.director : Giselle Heimann Ratain

results.listIds.year : 2002

results.listIds.duration : 37

results.listIds.lang : English, German

המפוחית שהצילה את חיי

A testimony. Testimony of Zvi (Horst) Cohen, a member of Kibbutz Maabarot, born in Berlin in 1931. Zvi tells of his childhood in Germany, before Adolf Hitler came to power, and after that, living under the Nuremberg Laws, during Kristallnacht 1938, and during World War II. On May 7, 1943, Zvi and his parents were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Since he knew how to play German folk songs, at the time of his arrest, Zvi played the harmonica. He and his parents survived for two years in the Theresienstadt ghetto until the end of the war. The testimony was first broadcast on Holocaust...

results.listIds.year : 2020

results.listIds.duration : 93

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Nazi Lae: Legally Blind

A documentary A sobering look at how Hitler and the Nazi party manipulated laws to further their hate-filled agenda. People who were considered physically or racially inferior or disloyal to the state were deprived of their rights and often their lives under these Nazi laws. When Germany was ultimately defeated, Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg Trials, in an attempt by the world community to restore the rule of law./

results.listIds.director : John Michalczyk

results.listIds.year : 2016

results.listIds.duration : 55

results.listIds.lang : English, German