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Kasztner Trial aka Kastner Family, Parts 1-2

Three-part series that was inspired by the Kasztner-Greenwald libel trial and the story of Rezso Israel Kasztner. Kasztner, a journalist, attorney and Zionist leader in Hungary, served beginning in 1943 as vice president of the Committee for Aid and Rescue of the Zionist movement that was headed by Otto Komoly.

results.listIds.director : Uri Barbash

results.listIds.year : 1994

results.listIds.duration : 122

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Escort of Shame

Filmmaker, historian, and author Raphael Delpard released this Documentary film, which focuses on the Jewish victims transported from France to Nazi concentration camps during World War II, in cattle car convoys operated by SNCF – the French national train company. Delpard himself was one of the fortunate few who survived the harrowing and unforgettable journey and subsequent imprisonment. He conveys the horrors of the experience through interviews with survivors as well as re-enactments of the actual events that took place.

results.listIds.director : Raphaël Delpard

results.listIds.year : 2009

results.listIds.duration : 104

results.listIds.lang : French

The Raids of the Summer of 1942 in the free zone

This film is about a little known aspect of the deportation of Jews from France. It explains how, in August 1942, 11 000 men, women, children, Jews who had fled to the south of France entirely under the authority of the Vichy regime, were arrested by police and gendarmes in the French term fully prepared to raids by French officials. Based on the story of survivors, supported by the analysis of eminent historians, this documentary reconstructs the details of this crime. It was supported by the FMS.

results.listIds.director : Antoine Casubolo Ferro

results.listIds.year : 2009

results.listIds.duration : 52

results.listIds.lang : French

A Journey of Remembrance 1995 - The Story of the Lost Train

-9 אפריל, 1945, יצא המשלוח האחרון מברגן-בלזן, משלוח שנודע לימים כ"משלוח הרכבת האבודה". ניצולי משלוח זה משחזרים אותו בסרט זה למען אלו שלא שרדו אותו. כמו אז, מתחיל המסע בווסטרבורק, מחנה המעבר בהולנד, ומסתיים בטרביץ אשר בסקסוניה, גרמניה.

results.listIds.year : 1995

results.listIds.duration : 97

results.listIds.lang : German, Hebrew

Maly Trostinec

Through eye-witness testimonies and archival footages, this documentary tells the story of Maly Trostinec, camp and site of mass murder, (12 km) southeast of Minsk, Belorussia. The camp existed since November 41 solely for the purpose of killing and appropriating the remaining possessions of the victims. The camp served as a killing site for the Jews of Minsk and the surrounding area and tens of thousands of Jews from other European countries. Many thousands of Byelorussian civilians, Byelorussian partisans and, most of all, Soviet POWs, were murdered at Maly Trostinec as well. The murder was committed by...

results.listIds.year : 1995

results.listIds.duration : 30

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...

results.listIds.director : David Bergman, Haim Guri, Jacko Erlich

results.listIds.year : 1974

results.listIds.duration : 46

results.listIds.lang : 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”.

results.listIds.director : W. Press

results.listIds.year : 1980

results.listIds.duration : 178

results.listIds.lang : English

The Wall

Adapted by Millard Lampell from his own 1960 Broadway play, which was inspired by John Hersey's 1950 novel, The Wall tells of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943. The story is told through the eyes of Warsaw Jew Dolek Benson (Tom Conti) who is a passive observer of the atrocities all around him until he learns the truth about the Nazi's "resettlement" program. Rachel Roberts, cast as Regina Kowalski, a former schoolteacher, made her final appearance in this film. Filmed on location in Sosnowiec, Poland, and first telecast February 16, 1982, The Wall earned a Peabody Award the following year.

results.listIds.director : Robert Markowitz

results.listIds.year : 1982

results.listIds.duration : 135

results.listIds.lang : English

Kastner Trial - Television Debate

Television debate regarding the 3-part drama series produced by Israeli television about the Kastner-Grunwald libel trial and the story of Rezso Israel Kasztnerю

results.listIds.year : 1994

results.listIds.duration : 214

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

טיסה אחת בשבילנו

סרט תעודי העוסק במטס המיוחד של מטוסי חיל האוויר הישראלי שנערך ב-26/01/05, בסמוך לציון 60 שנה לשחרור מחנה אושוויץ ובהתייחסות בנות הברית בזמן המלחמה כלפי מחנות ההשמדה. הסרט טוען כי מדינות בנות הברית לדעת על המתרחש בשואה, היו מודעות לזוועות באושוויץ, ולמרות שיכלו פעמים רבות למנוע מותם של רבים ע"י הפצצה אווירית, לא עשו דבר. לצד זה, מתאר חיים הכט, יוצר הסרט, גם את סיפור מטס חיל האוויר הישראלי הסמלי מעל אושוויץ ב-2003 ובוחן את מסלול הטיסה שהיה דומה לכל אחת מ-1417 הגיחות של מטוסי קרב אמריקנים ובריטים שעברו מעל אושוויץ. "אנו טייסי חיל האוויר האוויר הישראלי, בשמי מחנה הזוועות, קמנו מאפר מיליוני הקורבנות, נושאים...

results.listIds.director : Haim Hecht

results.listIds.year : 2006

results.listIds.duration : 55 60

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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