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When Canada Said No - The Abandoned Jews of the MS St. Louis

Documentary that revisits the MS St. Louis incident through the testimony of survivors and witnesses and the findings of eminent historians, and using original footage and documentation. This short film reveals why our government acted the way it did, and helps us understand what led to a refusal that casts a dark shadow on Canada’s humanitarian record.

Director : Nobu Adilman

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 17

Language : English

526

Between 1934 an 1942, 526 Austrians fled from fascism and National Socialism to Colombia, which had been a haven for refugees who fled the Austrian civil war in the 1930ies. The majority of those immigrants were Jews, who escaped after the “Anschluss”, the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, to South America. Most of them reached Colombia via the seaport Barranquilla. There and in the capital Bogotá, they found a new homeland, established companies, and built up a living. The film presents personal destinies of those emigrants with archive material and contemporary interviews. 526 is dedicated to all those...

Director : Nikolaus Braunshör

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 53

Language : German

The Voyage of the St. Louis

Documentary film about the ship "St. Louis", a ship of refugees on which in May 1939 around 930 German Jews sailed to Cuba in hope of a new life far from the Germany of Hitler. The passengers on the St. Louis were not permitted to enter Cuba and the ship returned to Europe. England, Belgium, France and Holland agreed to accept the passengers of the St. Louis, but most were later victims of the Nazis. Includes testimonies, photographs, archival films and documentation of a reunion with around 9 survivors of the St. Louis.

Director : Maziar Bahari

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 50

Language : English, German

Aristides de Sousa Mendes O' Consul Injusticado, Righteous Gentle

Based on archival materials and testimonies, this TV documentary tells the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885-1954), a Portuguese diplomat in Bordeaux, France, who fought against his own government for the safety of Jewish refugees soon after the fall of France. During 16-23/6/40, he issued Portuguese visas free of charge, to over 30,000 refugees seeking to escape the Nazi terror, 12,000 of who were Jews. The Portuguese government ordered his immediate recall to Lisbon and he was dismissed with all his retirement pensions suspended. With 13 children, and no other means at his disposal, Sousa Mendes sank...

Director : Olga Teresa

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 56

Language : English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese

Diplomats for the Damned

As Hitler rolled across Europe, millions of Jews and political enemies of the Third Reich were maliciously exterminated. Yet many more would have died were it not for the bravery of a few foreign service diplomats. Years before D-Day, men like Switzerland's Carl Lutz, Portugal's Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Hiram Bingham of the U.S., and Germany's George Ferdinand Duckwitz secretly issued visas, falsified papers, and cut backroom deals to rescue the damned from the Nazi clutch.

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 45

Language : English

The Number of the Righteous

During WWII there was a group of Spanish diplomats who risked his own life to save thousands of Jewish families in the Nazi horror. The report shows the case of Rolland Miot, consul in Paris; Eduardo Proper Alley in Bordeaux and San Angel Briz, consul in Budapest, who helped the Jews in a context where, in Spain, the regime Franco was in debt to Hitler. However, the Spanish diplomacy acted secretly to save Jews and to improve its image abroad.

Director : Ignacio Sánchez, Fátima Hernández

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 42

Language : Spanish

Visas for Freedom

סרט תעודי העוסק בברנרדו רולנד דה מיוטה (Bernardo Rolland de Miota), קונסול ספרד בפריז בשנים 1939-1943, אשר פעל למען יהודי צרפת ואף התעמת בעניין זה עם שגריר ארצו בצרפת. לאחר שהיהודים הופלו בחקיקה ביחס לשאר האוכלוסייה והוטלו עליהם הגבלות, רולנד פעל נגד החרמת רכושם. באוגוסט 41 הוא התערב באופן פעיל לטובת 14 יהודים ספרדים שנעצרו ונשלחו למחנה המעבר דרנסי. אותו זמן רולנד אף כתב לשלטונות גרמניה בפריז והציע העברת 2,000 יהודים (כולל אלו בדרנסי) למרוקו הספרדית תוך מספר שבועות. לאחר מכן, ללא הצלחה של ממש, הוא ניסה להאט את גירוש היהודים מצרפת ולהוקיע את רדיפתם. ב- 1942, מאמציו של רולנד נשאו פרי. שלטונות וישי לא יכלו להחרים...

Director : Ricardo Basterra, Arancha Gorostola

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 52

Language : Spanish

The Witnesses Have The Words

באמצעות תצלומים ועדויות מאת שמונה ניצולים, נשים וגברים, סרט תעודי העוסק בפליטים יהודים אשר מצאו מקלט בפורטוגל לאחר לאחר עליית הנאצים לשלטון בגרמניה ב- 1933. כמו כן, כולל הסרט ראיון עם עם דה מנדש, נכדו של חסיד אומות העולם דה סוסה מנדש. משתתפים: זיגפריד רוזנטל מרים ברודהיים פדרו סינגר ברני קרישר מתילדה פייסט, פורטוגלית-קתולית שנישאה ליהודי ב- 1930 זינה ליברמן מנואלה אוגוסט סינגר, בתם של פליטים אלוורו דה סוסה מנדש, נכדו של חסיד אומות העולם דה סוסה מנדש

Director : Esther Mucznik

Duration : 69

Language : Portuguese

The German Captains of the Caribia and the Koenigstein

A documentary film telling the story of two Jewish refugee boats, mostly from Austria, who needed to escape from the Nazi terror before the outbreak of the Second World War. The passengers on the Caribia & Koenigstein, were not given permission to enter several ports in the Caribbean Islands and Guana Islands. In the end, they were able to enter Venezuela thanks to the open-door policy of the President General López Contreras. Their stories is told in this film through testimonies of a number of the passengers, archival footage and different documents.

Director : Jonathan Jakubowicz

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 45

Language : English, Spanish

Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness

This documentary film presents the Japanese diplomat, a righteous gentile, Sempo Sugihara (1986-1900). Includes archival footage and photographs.

Director : Robert Kirk

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 82

Language : English

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