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In 1990, a united Croatia re-appeared on the map of Europe as an independent nation after a long history of domination, first by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and then, as part of Yugoslavia. Owing to its location as a crossroads between different cultures, Croatia was characterized by an immigrant population, including Jews. Today's Croatian Jewish community is small, numbering only 2,500. The Jews were concentrated in the big cities, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Osijek, and Belovar. The film surveys the relationship between Croatia and its Jews throughout history, including the Second World War and the Ustaše regime, as...

Director : Jakov Sedlar

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 85

Language : English

Ratlines

The Jewish Holocaust of the 1930's and 40's is probably one of the most well-documented atrocities in recent Western history. The horrors suffered by six million Jews and eight million other minorities in Nazi concentration camps have been the subject of countless books, films, and documentaries, and have taken an important place in school curricula throughout the US and Europe. But is it possible the same powers who claim that education and history will bring justice to victims of the Holocaust have failed to bring justice to them in the only practical manner possible? Ratlines explores the events in the...

Director : Piers Thompson

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 46

Language : English

Concentration Camp Jasenovac

סרט תיעודי העוסק במחנה יסנובאץ' (Jasenovac), מחנה ריכוז והשמדה הגדול ביותר בקרואטיה. יסנובאץ' היה מכלול של מחנות סמוכים זה לזה במורד הנהר Sava דרומית לזגרב (Zagreb). הוא פעל בשנים 1941 - 1945 בפיקוח משטרת הבטחון הקרואטית. במחנה נרצחו כ- 600,000 איש, רובם סרבים, יהודים, צוענים ומתנגדי משטר Ustasa, ארגון טרור לאומני קרואטי לאומני בדלני. יהודים נשלחו למחנה מכל קרואטיה ורובם נרצחו עם הגיעם. המעטים שהושארו בחיים היו בעלי מקצועות נדרשים. תנאי החיים במחנה היו קשים ביותר; תזונה דלה, מגורים קשים, מעשי אכזריות ורצח. כ- 20,000 עד 25,000 יהודים נספו ביסנובאץ' עד שהוחל בשילוח יהודי קרואטיה לאושוויץ באוגוסט 1942. באפריל 1945,...

Director : Ivan Struger

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 27

Language : Serbian-Croatian

Mandlbaum's Mission

Documtary film using eye-witness testimonies to tell the story of the Jewish community of Mostar, the second largest city after Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the Holocaust years, 1941-1943, the importance of Mostar grew. This area of Herzegovina was occupied by the Italians and they did not harm the Jews. More than this, when Jewish refugees arrived from Fascist Croatia, the Italians turned a blind eye. Pressure from the Germans and the Croations to incarcerate the Jews were ignored by the Italian officials. In 1943 the Italian army evacuated the Jews of Mostar to the Adriatic shore. Thanks to...

Director : Annet Betsalel

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 46

Language : Serbian-Croatian

Legacy

A documentary. A cinematic memorial to the Serbian victims of genocide in the Independent State of Croatia between 1941 through 1945. Edited from hours of recorded interviews, it is the fruit of a larger oral history project, Project Legacy, intended to preserve the culture of remembrance of the Serbian people. Comparable to Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah in 1985, the film presents the personal testimonies of 55 survivors, reconstructing the historical course of the described events.This documentary account of the Serbian experience of genocide.

Director : Ivan Jović

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 91

Language : Serbian

Jasenovac - The Truth

A documentary film. This controversial film contends that the extent of the Holocaust in Croatia and the World War two genocide of the country's Serb population was exaggerated through post-war communist propaganda. It focuses primarily on Jasenovac, a concentration camp run by Croatia's wartime fascist Ustaše government where an estimated 100,000 are believed to have perished, but the film suggests that the actual death toll never exceeded 18,000. This lies at the center of the controversy around the film and its director. The film also argues that Jasenovac continued being used as a concentration camp by...

Director : Jakov Sedlar

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 60

Language : Croatian

Neke stvari ne treba sakriti

A short documentary. The film follows Nives Jagodic (the director's sister) in her research about her grandfather Dr. Joza Jagodic, doctor in Bjelovar's general hospital, who posthumously got the acknowledgment ''Righteous among the Nations''. Through her travels and conversation with the man whose life was saved by Dr. Joza Jagodic, one can find how much he risked throughout the whole World War Two in order to save civilians from certain death. His example shows what makes people do something noble and righteous and even risk their own lives.

Director : Lidija Spegar

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 31

Dara in Jasenovac

סרט עלילתי באורך מלא.

Director : Predrag Antonijevic

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 130

Language : Serbian-Croatian

BABY FROM THE PACKAGE

A short documentary film by Jakov Sedlar. The film tells the story of Dina Büchler, who eas only a baby when her parents were deported to cocentration camps in Croatia. Dina was sved by her mother's prewar freind .Djina Gertruda Beritić, and her son Tihomil. On July 13, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Djina Gertruda Beritić and her son, Tihomil Beritić, as Righteous Among the Nations

Director : Jakov Sedlar

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 32

Language : Croatian, English

Jedna Hrvatska Priča - Film o Ivici Haasu

ne Croatian Story - a film about Ivica Haas" directed by Jakov Sedlar. It is a story that tells the sad fate of the Jews in Požega who all perished in the concentration camps, including the Haas family, from which only the then two-year-old Ivica Haas was saved. He was saved from certain death by the Taborsky family, who showed great courage and humanity, and in doing so exposed themselves to great danger, and on two occasions fled from the Ustasha arrests in the vicinity of Požega and Kaptol, and hid. The boy Ivica survived, he was educated in Zagreb, and after the death of the Taborsky family he went to...

Director : Jakov Sedlar

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 22

Language : Croatian

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