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Nyosha is a ten year old girl. She dreams of buying a pair of shoes during the reality of a pitiless war. She believes that because of her shoes, she will stay alive. A range of animation techniques brings together the dream and the reality and tells Nyosha's story.

Director : לירן קפל, יעל דקל

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 12

In Darkness

Drama inspired by the real exploits of a Polish sewer worker and sometime burglar named Leopold Socha, who helped Jews during the Nazi occupation of Lvov (now Lviv, in Ukraine), provides the latest evidence that the Holocaust movie has become a genre in its own right. Even a true story can follow the familiar conventions of film narrative, and this tale of a righteous gentile selflessly assisting in the survival of a handful of persecuted Jews is no exception.

Director : Agnieszka Holland

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 145

Language : Polish

Twist of Fate

A two-part miniseries about an SS-Lieutenant Colonel Helmut Von Schreader who, in the waning days of the Third Reich, undergoes plastic surgery and becomes a concentration-camp prisoner to avoid prosecution as a war criminal. In an ironic twist of fate, he is shipped to the wrong camp and forced to live with those he has victimized, where he learns to respect them. After the war, he becomes involved in the founding of Israel, marries and fathers a son, who eventually stumbles across his identity 20 years later.

Director : Ian Sharp

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 177

Language : English

Going and Coming Back

A feature film. This movie tells the story of the members of a Jewish family who flee the Germans and end up hiding in the country . Unfortunately, the Gestapo finds them and they are sent to a concentration camp. The film then leaps ahead to 1985 where the daughter of the couple begins believing that her dead brother has been reincarnated as a famed pianist. She feels this is so because both of them love Rachmaninoff's "Concerto No. 2".

Director : Claude Lelouch

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 114

Language : French

The future awaits

A feature film. Paris, 1942. A young jewish girl and her parents are expelled from their home and are forced to hide in a tiny room, relying on the mercy of neighbors. In the small room that becomes her entire world, the young girl refuses to succumb to the harsh reality and manages to harness her imagination and innocence to breathe life and hope into their situation: she draws a piano on the floor, improvises a makeup corner d, above all, gazes upon Paris through a small skylight, remembering life before the war and imagining the day after and the future that awaits. Based on a true story,

Director : Nils Tavernier

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 91

Language : French

Bizzi family's story

A short documentary. 1943: When the Padovani family had to flee Bologna, they turned to their friend and colleague Carlo Edmondo Bizzi, who hosted them in his house in Imola for over a year. Among the families, there is still a strong bond of friendship today

Director : Valentina Arena

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 7

Language : Italian

Les enfants caches en Belgique pendant la Shoah - les porteurs de bagages

סרט תיעודי קצר. אודות האנשים שדאגו למסתור לילדים יהודים בבלגיה במהלך השואה.

Director : Nicole Bard

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 30

Language : French

Les enfants caches en Belgique pendant la Shoah

הקלטת פאנל. מתוך ועידה שהתקיימה בירושלים בשנת 2007

Director : Nicole Bard

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 30

Language : French

Bear and Fred

סרט תיעודי קצר.

Director : Famie, Keith

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 14

Language : English

We Would Meet After the War - The Story of Naftali Fürst

A short documentry. Naftali (Juraj) Fürst was born in 1932 in Bratislava, Slovakia (then Czechoslovakia) to Margit and Artur. He had one older brother, Shmuel (Peter). After the Slovak State was declared and anti-Jewish measures were implemented, the family went into hiding but were caught. In 1942 they were interned in the Sered concentration camp. In 1944, they managed to escape to Piešťany. By then the Germans had entered and occupied Slovakia. The family members were caught once again and were reinterned in Sered, which came under German command. In November 1944 the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 36

Language : German

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