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תכנית ראשונה מתוך סדרה של 3 תוכניות, תעסוק בזיכרון השואה עם יו"ר יד ושם אבנר שלו.

Director : Abraham Kushnir

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 53

Language : Hebrew

A feature film. An exploration of the moral and survival dilemmas in Auschwitz from the point of view of a deputy head of a block and a few of the prisoners from his block who survived the horrors of the camp, immigrated to Israel in the 40's and are still struggling to begin new life in the newborn state of Israel. Based on the true story of Eliezer Greenbaum .

Director : Uri Barbash

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 99

Language : Hebrew

Uniform Shell Cocoon - Military service in Israel

Documentary. Like in no other country in the world, living in Israel is threatened by permanent, mostly militant conflicts with the surrounding countries. This documentary shows the implications resulting for both young Israeli men and women: The military service requires an abrupt growing up because of the confrontation with great responsibility, violence and death. Four young Israelis report of their experiences, showing how interwoven military and “normality” are in Israel. Thereby, an insight is given on the complex and sometimes ambivalent perception of the young Israelis of this formative time of their...

Director : Nina Bittcher, Jean-Philipp Baeck

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 52

Language : English, German

March of the Living

A documentary film. Every year thousands of teenagers and remaining Holocaust survivors from around the world come together in Poland to revisit the sites of the Holocaust and retrace the Death March from Auschwitz to Birkenau in a journey of remembrance. This is called March of the Living.Filmed in Brazil, Germany, Poland, Israel and the US, this film the tory of the survivors’ hope of passing down their history and memory of the Holocaust to the next generation. It follows survivors and teens from Sao Paulo, Los Angeles, and Berlin on an emotional journey as they confront the enormity of the past in Poland,...

Director : Jessica Sanders

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 77

Language : English, Polish, Portuguese

Czech Wings under Zion

A documentary film, depicting the historical events associated with the announcement of the State of Israel sixty years ago. The dramatic emergence of the Jewish state after World War II, in 1948 was voted and announced by the UN. Czechoslovakia was one of the first countries to vote in favor of the establishment of Israel, and provided specific and significant contribution to the new state at its very beginnings. It was the Czechoslovak weapons and Israeli troops trained in Czechoslovakia, who defended Israel in the War of Independence against attack by Arab countries. The pilots trained in Olomouc...

Director : Zdeněk Pojman

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 57

Language : Czech

Twist of Fate

A two-part miniseries about an SS-Lieutenant Colonel Helmut Von Schreader who, in the waning days of the Third Reich, undergoes plastic surgery and becomes a concentration-camp prisoner to avoid prosecution as a war criminal. In an ironic twist of fate, he is shipped to the wrong camp and forced to live with those he has victimized, where he learns to respect them. After the war, he becomes involved in the founding of Israel, marries and fathers a son, who eventually stumbles across his identity 20 years later.

Director : Ian Sharp

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 177

Language : English

Gestures of Reconciliation - International Short Film Competition, Disc 1

סדרת סרטים קצרים.

Director : Katsiaryna Kamockaya, Viktor Korzuon‬, אסתי עמרמי, דנה לבנט, Hans Stützer, Daniel Erb, Moonika Siimets, Priit Pääsuke, Jaanis Valk

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 117

Language : Belarusian, English, Estonian, German, Hebrew, Russian

Maria's World

סרט תיעודי. הסרט מספר על סרט דוקומנטרי על תרצה קשפיצקי ניצולת שואה שחיה בזמן מלחמת העולם השנייה בזהות בדויה כנוצרייה בלבוב ובקראקוב. לאחר המלחמה עלתה לישראל דרך מחנה המעצר בקפריסין, התגייסה לצה"ל במלחמת העצמאות וכיום מרצה בפני תלמידים וחיילים על קורותיה בשואה. הסרט מתלווה אליה ליום בו היא מספרת את סיפורה בפני חיילי צה"ל ובמקביל מספרת לבמאי בפולנית על קורותיה. בסרט משולבים קטעי ארכיון בשחור לבן מהתקופות השונות.

Director : Michał Bukojemski

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 28

Language : Hebrew, Polish

A. Einstein - How I See the World

סרט תיעודי.

Director : Richard Kroehling

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 57

Language : English

I rose from the ashes - the story of Avigdor Neumann

A short documentary. Avigdor Neumann was born in Velká Sevljuš, Czechoslovakia (Yiddish: Selish, preset-day Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1931 to a Hasidic family. In 1939, the city was annexed by Hungary and was renamed Nagyszőlős. In 1944, the city's Jews were imprisoned in a ghetto and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Afterwards Avigdor was transferred to the Althammer camp and later sent on a death march to Mauthausen. After liberation, Avigdor and his sister immigrated to Israel. Avigdor married Rivka and they had children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 33

Language : Hebrew

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