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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

Heroes And Tyrants - Mussolini

Documentary film based on archival films about Benito Mussolini, founder of the fascist movement, prime minister of Italy, and its dictator from the fascist takeover of government in 1922 until his execution by partisans in 1945.

Director : Patricia Lagone

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 50

Language : English

Free Fall, Private Hungary, part 10

Episode 10 in director’s Péter Forgács series "Private Hungary" which is based on a home footage that document the daily life of the Hungarians, before, during and after WWII. This experimental film is based on home movies, documenting the family life of Hungarian Jews from 1937 until the German occupation in 1944. This is a joint effort of the film director Péter Forgács and György Pető, an amateur photographer whose dozens of reels of film were made by Forgacs into a cinematic testimony about Hungary during the war and the German occupation.

Director : Peter Forgacs

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 71 75

Language : English, Hungarian

Man Alive - Journey To Prague

Otto Lowy remembers his life as a Jewish child in Prague under the Nazi occupation. The film follows him through the streets of the old Prague and the Jewish Quarter. His tour is intertwined with touring guide's briefings played by an actress. Lowy's life was saved when his parents sent him to England in 1939 as part of the Kindertrasport Operations.*

Director : David Cherniack

Production Year : 1987

Duration : 28

Language : English

The Bartos Family - Private Hungary, part 1

First episode in director’s Péter Forgács "Private Hungary" series which is based on a home footage that document the daily life of the Hungarians, before, during and after WWII. This part presents the work of a talented amateur filmmaker Zoltán Bartos, a chanson composer and lumber businessman who made more than five hours of 9,5mm amateur film from the late twenties until the mid sixties. In 1944 the Hungarian “Quisling government” plundered the half Jewish Bartos family. Following the Nazi period, surviving the war in a Forced Jewish Labor unite, Zoltán divorced and remarry. Later the Communists rage the...

Director : Peter Forgacs

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 61

One Survivor Remembers - Gerda Weissman Klein

Joint production of USHMM in Washington and the HBO television network for the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps: the memoir of Gerda Weisman Klein, a native of Bielsko, Poland, and the only member of her family who survived the Shoah. Weisman's story appeared in her book "All but my life", published for the first time in 1957. It includes archival photographs, archival films and location photographs. Winner of the 1996Oscar Award for best short documentary film.

Director : Kary Antholis

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 38 39

Language : English

Map of the Ghettos - Riga

This documentary film is making use of archival material of Ghetto Riga

Director : Liran Atzmor

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 1

Language : Silent Film

Map of the Ghettos - Vilna

This documentary film is making use of archival material of Ghetto Wilno

Director : Liran Atzmor

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 2

Language : Silent Film

Leszno Street Scenes in the Warsaw Ghetto

A documentary film including archival films showing the street views of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 4

Language : Musical Score

Hitler: A Balance - The Dictator

4th episode in a six-part series that surveys the life and figure of Hitler comprehensively. Includes many interviews and rare archival excerpts. This episode, Der Diktator, deals with the way in which Hitler led Germany and his government apparatus.

Director : Guido Knopp, Maurice Philip Remy

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 49

Language : German

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