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Wilhelm Brasse Fotograf 3444 - Auschwitz 1940-1945

Summary: Documentary. In March of 2010 Maria Anna Potocka conducted an interview with Wilhelm Brasse. The outcome is a book with edited tales of the prisoner-cum-chief-photographer of Auschwitz, as well as a film with excerpts of the interview. There is an introduction by historian Teresa Wontor-Cichy, academic editor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The book is generously illustrated with photographs from Wilhelm Brasse’s own archives, as well as the Photographic Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Yad Vashem.

results.listIds.director : Maria Anna Potocka

results.listIds.year : 2011

results.listIds.duration : 43

results.listIds.lang : German, Polish

To Freedom With The White Buses

Documentary film that tells about the operation for rescuing prisoners in the last months of the Second World War by the Swedish Red Cross, through testimonies, archival photographs, archival films and dramatic reconstructions.

results.listIds.director : Gregor Nowinski

results.listIds.duration : 40

results.listIds.lang : English

Passenger

Television drama dealing with an SS officer making her way back to Germany on a boat after the WW2 who thinks she recognizes an ex-prisoner from Auschwitz on the boat. She tells her husband that she was the inspector in the camp during the war but that she saved the life of one woman. The story of the film is based on a 1959 radio drama “The traveler from Cabin no. 45” (Pasazerka z kabiny 45) by Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka. Posmysz-Piasecka participated in writing the film script together with the director of the film Andrzej Munk. This is the director’s last film and was completed by his friend after Munk was killed...

results.listIds.director : Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz

results.listIds.year : 1963

results.listIds.duration : 62

results.listIds.lang : Polish

The Dance of Life

Yehudit Arnon, the founder of the Kibbutz Dance Company, was interned in a number of concentration camps during the Second World War. In Auschwitz, she was forced to stand in the snow for hours for refusing to dance on command. She vowed that if she survived, she would devote her life to dance. The Dance of Life includes archival footage, personal photographs, excerpts from performances and festivals, interviews, and a clip from the awards ceremony where Arnon received the Israel Prize.

results.listIds.director : Tzvia Keren

results.listIds.year : 2005

results.listIds.duration : 55

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Death Marches

Documentary film that brings the testimony of two survivors of the forced death march of a group of women in January 1945 that continued 106 days from Schlesiersee in Germany to Volary, Czechoslovakia.

results.listIds.director : Ayelet Heller

results.listIds.year : 2005

results.listIds.duration : 4

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Listy do Lilli

סרט תיעודי קצר. מכתב אחד שנכתב ללילי גרינבאום/Lilli Grünebaum שהיתה אסירה במחנה Electro Mühle הביא לגילוי סיפורן של 700 נשים אסירות באושוויץ

results.listIds.director : Michal Mackowiak, Marcin Krzysztoń

results.listIds.year : 2014

results.listIds.duration : 21

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Memory circle

A feature film. Margarita Begolli, the protagonist of the film, returns to Albania after 25 years with a lost memory. What is the enigma? It is known that Nazi doctors have used Margarita for their inhumane experiments in the concentration camp. Her granddaughter wants to find out what is bothering her aunt so much. Why is light an enemy of hers? During this time, Margarita recovers, through the love and hope that surrounds her. This is the only Albanian film out of 300 films made during the communist era in Albania, which has as its theme a Nazi concentration camp and the tortures committed there....

results.listIds.director : Esat Musliu

results.listIds.year : 1987

results.listIds.duration : 98

results.listIds.lang : Albanian

השעה הבינלאומית - כאן רשת ב- 4/1/21 - הסגרת שומרת נאצית לפולין

כתבת רדיו. שודרה בתוכנית "השעה הבינלאומית" ב"כאן רשת ב" בתאריך 4/1/2021. בכתבה מדובר על בקשת הסגרה של פולין , נגד שומרת נאצית, בת 97 שנים.

results.listIds.year : 2021

results.listIds.duration : 4

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Zofia Psosmysz

סרט תיעודיהסרט מתאר את עדותה של Zofia Posmysz ,פולניה, ניצולת המחנה אושוויץ-בירקנאו . בשנת 1942 בגיל 19 נעצרה בקראקוב על הפצת כרוזים.

results.listIds.director : Maria Anna Potocka

results.listIds.year : 2018

results.listIds.duration : 76

results.listIds.lang : Polish