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The story of Oleńka, is an unpretentious account by a Polish political prisoner of her experience of Nazi concentration camps and death marches. It is a welcome addition to the genre of Holocaust memoirs, and it shows that the Jews were not the only victims of Hitler’s regime.

Production Year : 2011

Language : English

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 Powerful Testimony of Forgiveness - Peter Loth, From Holocaust to New Life

עדות פרונטלית באנגלית מאת פיטר לות' (Peter Loth), ניצול שואה יהודי-גרמני אשר שימש בילדותו לניסויים רפואיים במחנה שטוטהוף (Stutthof). כולל תצלומי ארכיון.

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 116

Language : English

סיפורים אישיים של ניצולי שואה - חברי מועדון רוטרי, חיפה

תיעוד הערב לציון יום הזכרון לשואה וגבורה, שהתקיים במועדון רוטרי, חיפה ב 02.05.2011. במפגש הזה העלו 3 מחברי המועדון זכרונות מתקופת השואה. הניצולים הם: יונה ינק פוקס, קטי ברגמן שטרסר ויעקב מלצר.

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 60

Language : Hebrew

Yizkor

Short animated students' film. Years after her grandparents have died, the filmmaker discovers her grand-mother’s memoir revealing their experiences during the holocaust. The story of a woman’s struggle to keep herself and her children alive in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The film uses director's grandmother’s own words, along with animation, archival material and present-day Super 8 footage, to tell that story, one of survival and resilience in the face of crushing loss.

Director : Ruth Fertig

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 23

Language : English

Remember Us

סרט תיעודי על הישרדות בתקופת השואה. תלמידים מראיניים את ניצולי השואה.

Director : Greg Farnese

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 33

Language : English

If One of Us Should Die

Director : Susanna Edling

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 58

Language : Hungarian

משפחת רוזנצוויג - סיפורם של ארבעה הנכדים ששרדו

סרט תיעודי על משפחת רוזנצוויג וסיפור הישרדותה בתקופת השואה.

Director : אלכסנדרה פרקש

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 14

Language : English

Diamonds of the Night

A feature film. Two young men fleeing from a train which her destiny is a concentration camp. The film employs little dialogue, and the boys' escape through forests and swamps, and across rocky terrain. When the boys encounter a farmer's wife, the younger boy follows her into her kitchen to ask for food, and as he struggles with thoughts of murder and rape. Eventually, the boys are caught by a shooting party of elderly German-speaking men, who detain the boys in a beer hall while they drink, eat, sing, and dance, before turning the boys over to the town's mayor.

Director : Jan Nemec

Production Year : 1964

Duration : 63

Language : Czech

Out of the Ashes

Drama based on the true story of Dr. Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian gynecologist who was incarcerated at Auschwitz during the Second World War. The story of Perl is told in flashbacks while she is being interrogated by the American Immigration Panel as a result of her application for American citizenship after the war. She is forced to deal with accusations of cooperating with the Nazis because she worked as a gynecologist in the camp. Winner of the Emmy for Best Cinematography for a television film or mini series.

Director : Joseph Sargent

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 113

Language : English

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