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Story of Shoah survivor Thomas Geve, who was sent as a child from Berlin to Auschwitz and liberated at age 13 in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Director : Wilhelm Roesing

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 35

Language : German

Our Time In The Garden

This moving experimental short uses re-photographed home movies and overlapping soundtracks to relate one woman's true memoir of growing up Jewish in 1930s Berlin. She describes her family's charmed and secure life, at the center of which is a walled garden, leading up to their flight from Germany in the face of Nazism and antisemitism.

Director : Ron Blau

Production Year : 1981

Duration : 15

Language : English

Come and See - Part 2

Elem Klimov, head of the Soviet Filmmakers Association, explores the horrors of WW2 in this coming-of-age drama, and an indictment of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of Florya, a 14-year-old farm boy who looses his innocence when becoming a witness of genocide. The story begins when Florya steals a gun from a soldier's shallow grave and runs off to join the Resistance fighters in wooded Byelorussia. But after he's left behind by the older partisans, Florya returns home to find his mother and baby sisters have been slaughtered, along with the other villagers. The grieving boy travels on to nearby town, where...

Director : Elem Klimov

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 73

Language : Russian

פרוייקט "הישרדות" מעגלי הקשבה מפגשי מבוגרים ניצולי שואה ונוער בראש פינה

תיעוד מפגשים בין ניצולי שואה לבין בני נוער שחלקם היו בקשר עם משלחת של נוער מגרמניה. המפגשים בנושא שואה, עדויות. במהלך המפגש הוקרן קטע מהסדרה "סיינפלד" המעלה מפגש בין ניצול שואה לבין "שורד" בתוכנית טלויזיה.

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 80

Language : Hebrew

My Australia

City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without father, and their mother, so busy at work, do not notice when boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only, when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland togather with her family and go to…Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become conscious of their and their family roots.The film is a full of emotions but also humorous tentative of self statement, and in case of both kids...

Director : Ami (tadeusz) Drozd

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 90

Language : Polish

Living in Enemy Skin - Hitler Jugend Salomon

Director : Andrzej J. Koszyk

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 57

Language : German

Red Kiss

A feature film. 1952, Paris. Nadia, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a " Paris Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stיphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father goes to the police. Stיphane faces charges, so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing. In a parallel story, Nadia's mother meets again her prewar lover, released from Siberia, who challenges the...

Director : Véra Belmont

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 112

Language : French

Hitler Jugend Quex

Nazi propaganda drama about a youth whose father presses him to join the communist youth movement when his heart is inclined toward Nazism.*

Director : Hans Steinhoff

Production Year : 1933

Duration : 88

Language : English, German

Tkuma - Kibbutz Galuyot, A Nation in Uniform, In the Shadow of the Shoah

Episodes in the documentary series produced by the Israel Broadcast Authority "Revival - The First 50 Years": "Ingathering of the Exiles" (the mass immigration 1948-1958), "A Nation in Uniform" (Israeli Security in the Years 1949-1956),"In the Shadow of the Shoah" (the relation of Israel to the Shoah 1948-1966).The third episode "In the Shadow of the Shoah", deals with the breach that existed between Shoah survivors and natives of Israel in the first decade of the state, the resistance that the reparations agreement with Germany aroused, and cut across political boundaries, the placing of the cornerstone of Yad...

Director : Ron Rotem, Yehuda Kaveh, Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 120

Language : Hebrew

For a Lost Soldier

A feature film. A young Dutch boy meets a Canadian soldier during the final months leading up to the liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation during World War II. The bond evolves between the two, that leads into a sexual relationship. Film based upon the autobiographical novel of the same title by ballet dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig

Director : Roeland Kerbosch

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 92

Language : Dutch

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