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Dear Mr. Waldman (2005)

Michtavim Le America

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In the early sixties, Hilik, a ten year old boy who lives in Tel Aviv, knows he and his brother have a goal in life: to make his parents happy and compensate for the grief and loss they suffered the..

Metallic Blues (2004)

Metallic Blues

Directed by: Dan Verete

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Two Israeli car dealers invest money in a limousine which they plan to sell for a much larger profit in Germany.

The Debt (2007)

Ha'Chov

Directed by: Assaf Bernstein

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In 1965 three Mossad agents capture a Nazi who was never brought to trial. He escaped and the agents made up a story as a cover. 35 years later the story comes back to haunt them when a small in a..

The Summer of Aviya (1988)

Ha Kayitz Shel Aviya

Directed by: Eli Cohen

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It is summertime, 1951, in an Israeli town where European immigrants continue to settle after World War II. Still scarred and raw from the Holocaust, they are often misunderstood and ridiculed ..

Adam Resurrected (2008)

Adam Ben Kelev

Directed by: Paul Schrader

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"Adam Resurrected" follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Nathan in..

The Wooden Gun (1979)

Roveh Huliot

Directed by: Ilan Moshenson

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This film is about the conflict between the native born Israelis and the European refugees. Prejudices, rumors, and unfair treatments were all problems in Tel Aviv during the time period of the to..

Walk on Water (2004)

Lalechet Al Hamaim

Directed by: Eytan Fox

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Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends..

Valentina's Mother (2009)

Directed by: Arik Lubtzki, Mati Harari

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Paula, an elderly Holocaust survivor living in Tel Aviv, resists her only son's attempts to find her a live-in help. Yet, when a local priest introduces her to Valentina, a young Polish woman, she a..

Have Will Have

Directed by: Hanania Baer

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In post-production as of august 2009. A drawing exhibit in Halberstadt, germany, where the artist's Grandparents lived until the Nazis came to power. Now the desolate family home is up for grabs.

Hugo 2 (2008)

Directed by: Yair Lev

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Two decades ago, filmmaker Yair Lev made Hugo, a film about his father, a survivor of Auschwitz, in which the older man revealed his most passionate belief: "It is most important for a man to be Lev..

The Optimists (2000)

Directed by: Jacky Comforty

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The story of Nico Nisimov, founder of the the first Jazz band in Bulgaria. The film is about the wonderful friendships and a jazz career that was cut short by the outbreak of World War II.

My Sister Tikva (2009)

Ahoti Tikva

Directed by: Vered Berman

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Even though 55 years have passed since Professor Yair Tauman was suddenly estranged from his beloved sister Tikva, who was sent away to begin a new life abroad, his wounds haven’t healed. Each..

Third Generation

Directed by: Ben Livne Weitzman

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Some 27,000 Israeli 11th and 12th graders went on organized trips to Poland in 2007. The film follows one such group, from the Jerusalem Arts High School. Production status: Post-production

Alvira (2009)

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Menachem and Fred (2009)

Menachem ve Fred

Directed by: Ofra Tevet, Ronit Kertsner

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This is the story of two brothers who for decades feared to meet.Only when rare letters were found, from their parents in a concentration camp, did Menachem and Fred start to re-establish contact to..

The Volunteers (2009)

Ha'mitnadvim

Directed by: Mooly Landesman

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The story of youthful exuberance and the search for personal identity come together in the idealism of a new country and the romanticism of the kibbutz. The setting is the collective communes of -..

Made in Israel (2001)

Directed by: Ari Folman

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Egon Schultz, the last surviving Nazi war criminal, is extradited to Israel from Syria in the framework of the peace agreements between the two countries. Schultz is to be tried in Jerusalem for the..

Under the Dommim Tree (1994)

Etz Hadomim Tafus

Directed by: Eli Cohen

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Based on Gila Almagor's autobiographical book, Under the Dommim Tree follows a group of teenagers who survived the Holocaust in a boarding school in the the early 50's. During the day they are like..

Paying for Justice (2007)

Musar Hashilumim

Directed by: Guy Meroz, Orli Vilnai - Federbush

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Shot in Germany, The Netherlands, USA and Israel, this documentary deals with the situation of the Holocaust survivors in Israel and around the world. The Filmmakers follow the billions of dollars -..

New Land (1993)

Aretz Hadasha

Directed by: Orna Ben-Dor Niv

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Anna, 8 years old, and her older brother Jan, travel from war ravaged Europe to Israel after WW II. Their only possessions are Anna's soiled teddy bear and a tattered photo of their lost mother. As..

Blind Man's Bluff (1993)

Golem Ba'Maagal

Directed by: Aner Preminger

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A young woman tries to distance herself from her Holocaust survivor parents and her ex-boyfriend. A talented pianist, Micki moves into a tiny apartment and is thrown into a world of tense including..

Over the Ocean (1991)

Me'ever Layam

Directed by: Jacob Goldwasser

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A Holocaust survivor and his family, who live in Israel, are visited by a friend from the concentration camp, who lives in Canada. Together they face the dilemma of whether to leave Israel for an or..

Hanna K. (1983)

Hanna K.

Directed by: Costa-Gavras, Costa-Gavras

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Hanna K. is the story of Hannah Kaufman, a child of Holocaust survivors and an American-Jewish immigrant to Israel, who was a court-appointed lawyer assigned to defend a Palestinian, Salim Bakri, of..

Tel-Aviv Berlin (1986)

Tel-Aviv Berlin

Directed by: Tzipi Trope

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Benjamin has just escaped the Holocaust and faces extreme difficulties adjusting to his new life in Palestine. He gradually slips away from his family ,back to his haunted past where he confronts of..

Flames in the Ashes (1985)

Pnei Hamered

Directed by: Haim Gouri, Jacques Ehrlich

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Motive to Kill (1967)

Haminiyah Leretzach

Directed by: Peter Freistadt

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Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)

Directed by: Moshe Mizrahi

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An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Through an English friend he meets a quiet Jewish girl whose close-knit family to..

Forgiveness (2006)

Mechilot

Directed by: Udi Aloni

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On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be were A..

The Champagne Spy (2007)

Meragel Ha-Shampaniya

Directed by: Nadav Schirman

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In the early sixties, Oded is just 12 years old when his father reveals to him that he is a Mossad agent and makes the boy swear to secrecy. He leaves his familiy for a mission in Cairo, where from..

A Film Unfinished (2010)

Shtikat Ha'archiyonim

Directed by: Yael Hersonski

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Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating look at another film-the now-infamous Nazi-produced film about the Warsaw Ghetto. Discovered after the war, a..

The Illegals (1947)

Lo Tafhidenu

Directed by: Meyer Levin

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During the British rule of Palestine, Holocaust survivors arrived from Europe by the boatful--only to find themselves refused entry. The "Aliyah Bet" movement was recorded by author and Meyer Levin,..

A Generation Apart (1983)

A Generation Apart

Directed by: Jack Fisher

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Children of survivors of the Holocaust ask how that event may have shaped them consciously and unconsciously. The Fishers are the primary focus: filmmaker Jack, his older brother Joe, and their who..

Atlantic Drift (2002)

La dérive de l'Atlantic

Directed by: Michel Daeron

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After confidential (and shameful) information was released by British authorities, this amazing story of survival was finally confirmed. A documentary, this film, co-produced by several countries of..

Cohen on the Bridge Rescue at Entebbe (2009)

Directed by: Andrew Wainrib

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A rescue like no other... Animated story of the 1976 hostage rescue in Entebbe , Uganda, narrated in first-person by the first commando to enter the building, through the perspective of his own in..

Pizza in Auschwitz (2008)

Pizza Be'Auschvitz

Directed by: Moshe Zimerman

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Danny Chanoch (74), survivor of several concentration camps, convinces his reluctant children to retrace his steps through the holocaust, eventually spending a night in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The House on August Street (2007)

Beith Ahawah

Directed by: Ayelet Bargur

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The House on August Street tells the remarkable, unknown story of Beate Berger, a German Jew who single-handedly rescued over 100 children during the Holocaust, smuggling them from Berlin to in the..

Phobidilia (2010)

Directed by: Doron Paz, Yoav Paz

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After suffering an emotional breakdown in a public place, a young man vows never to leave his apartment. He quickly discovers that in today's world all his needs can be easily met: sex via the food..

Spring 1941 (2008)

Aviv 1941

Directed by: Uri Barbash

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Successful doctor Artur Planck, his wife Clara and their two daughters are seeking shelter from the Nazis storming Poland. They find a safe house in the farm of Emilia, their local grocer who is all..

Born Guilty (2006)

Nolad Ashem

Directed by: Onn Nir

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Nikki, a young and successful New Yorker, is falling in love with her German boyfriend, Toby. Her protected world is shaken when she meets Isaac, a holocaust survivor and co-worker. She begins to as..

Classmates of Anne Frank (2008)

Ha'Haverim La Kita Shel Anna Frank

Directed by: Eyal Boers

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An Israeli games inventor returns to his childhood neighbourhood in the Netherlands to reunite with his and Anne Frank's former classmates, only to discover a confusing truth about his own hiding in..

Kun 65 (2010)

Kun 65

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Filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds an old oil painting on the street. He takes it home and learns that it was painted by a holocaust survivor artist. The next day they meet,Yoffe is fascinated..

I Shot My Love (2010)

Yariti Be'ahuvi

Directed by: Tomer Heymann

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Seventy years after his grandfather escapes from Nazi Germany to Palestine, Israeli documentary director Tomer Heymann returns to the country of his ancestors to present his film "Paper Dolls" at a..

Homeland (2008)

Directed by: Daniel Rosenberg

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Two European Jews, Holocaust refugees who have been swiftly transformed into Israeli soldiers, are roasting in the sun on a remote desert hill at the height of the 1948 War of Independence. The and..

Lerner's Revenge (2007)

Nikmat Lerner

Directed by: Gilad Tocatly

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In 1943, Gitl Lerner, a 45-year-old Jewish woman, hid with five of her children in the home of a Polish farmer. On the night of October 30, Polish farmers in the area stabbed Lerner and the five to..

Playoff (2011)

Directed by: Eran Riklis

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Playoff tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Max Stoller. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel's But..

Watermarks (2004)

Ha'koach Lischot

Directed by: Yaron Zilberman

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Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Hakoah ("The Strength" in Hebrew) was founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan to..

Love Inventory (2000)

Reshimat Ahava

Directed by: David Fisher

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David Fisher's funny and bittersweet film, LOVE INVENTORY, chronicles his family's attempt to solve a personal mystery, but which, in the process, brings a troubled family together. As Fisher and of..

The Secret (2001)

Hasod

Directed by: Ronit Kertsner

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Through accidental discovery or deathbed confessions, many Catholic Polish citizens have made an unsettling discovery: they were born Jewish. These “new Jews" must decide what this new truth a..

My 100 Children (2003)

Me'ah Yeladim Sheli

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In the spring of 1945, Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor Lena Kuchlar a young teacher and physiologist, discovered dozens of orphaned Jewish children (ages 3-15) holed up the Jewish Committee Center..

The Balcony (2000)

Directed by: Ruth Walk

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A documentary portrait of Israel Becker, founder of the first professional Yiddish theatrical company in post-war Germany and writer and star of the historic film Long Is the Road, the first feature..

Born in Berlin (1991)

Directed by: Naomi Ben-Natan, Leora Kamenetzy

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This penetrating documentary produced for Israel Educational Television looks at the lives of three Jewish women writers: Cordelia Edvardson, Angelika Schrobsdorff, and Inge Deutschkron. All three..

Hatikvah: The Hope (1936)

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Created in 1936 in an effort to inspire German Jews under Nazi rule to make Aliyah, Hatikvah: The Hope is a documentary about the earliest period of Zionist history and a singular celluloid The film..

I am Joseph, Your Brother (2001)

Directed by: Amy Kronish, Eli Tal-El

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During the 1960s, Pope John XXIII met with a delegation of Jews and said, "I am Joseph Your Brother" marking the beginning of a new relationship between Jews and Catholics. Inspired by the visit of..

Last Journey Into Silence (2001)

Directed by: Shosh Shlam

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Filmed at the Shaar Menashe Hospital in Israel, this heartbreaking film examines the plight of elderly Holocaust survivors whose war-time experiences have left them unable to find inner peace. by -..

On My Way To Father's Land (1995)

Directed by: Aner Preminger

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A moving documentary account of a son's struggle to understand his father's past. The film takes us on two journeys: the first is to Vienna, where director Preminger's father returns to his home to..

Simply Human (2002)

Directed by: Izzy Abrahami, Erga Netz

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SIMPLY HUMAN tells the story of Mrs. Hans Snoek, a 90 year old Dutch dancer who has dedicated her life to helping people. Famous in the Netherlands for being the creator of the Scapino Ballet (an -..

So We Said Goodbye (1991)

Nifradnu Kach

Directed by: Jorge Gurvich

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While saying goodbye to his son and grandchildren who are leaving Israel, Yaakov remembers when, as a child, he also said goodbye to his family in Poland in 1937, not realizing that he would never..

Song of Hannah (2005)

Directed by: Nicole Opper

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"A voice called. I went. I went for it called. I went lest I fall. At the crossroads, I blocked both ears with white frost and cried for what I had lost." -Hannah Senesh. A visionary poet who felt..

The Struma (2001)

Directed by: Simcha Jacobovici

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In 1941 nearly 800 Romanian Jews board a 46 meter boat called the Struma, a refugee ship bound for Palestine. The vessel is horribly overcrowded, the people are packed together like sardines, and to..

The Vision of Chaim Weizmann (1963)

Directed by: Lazar Dunner

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This is a biography of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel, incorporating film footage, sketches, and still photographs. The film begins with Dr. Weizmann's inauguration as President a..

What Hitler Has Done to Tel-Aviv (2009)

Lehatir et Hakesher- Tel Aviv-Berlin

Directed by: Yael Katzir

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Through the German Jews who flew from Hitler, Tel-Aviv was transformed from a Kleinstadt to a Metropolitan City. A personal moving observation.

Just Like the Queen of England (2010)

Kimo Malkat Anglit

Directed by: Micha Shagrir

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A French boy, street-smart and charismatic, is left to fend for himself after the Nazi occupation of Paris leaves him motherless. The 69 years that followed were an emotional journey that is only by..

Dunkel's Last Film (2006)

Directed by: Talia Ohaion

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The film uncovers a fascinating story of Fred Dunkel, a German Christian, photographer, producer and businessman, who was married to a Jewish woman and was forced to leave Nazi Germany in the 1930's..

Great Grandmother - Great Grandfather (1999)

Directed by: Taliya Finkel

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"Did you go on a honeymoon? Honeymoon? In our dream! All our life is honey..." This is the answer orthodox grandparents give to their atheist granddaughter, the film director, who tries to their to..

A Treasure in Auschwitz (2005)

Otzar Auschwitz

Directed by: Yahaly Gat

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A young student, Yariv Nornberg, hears from an elderly vendor a fantastic story about a Jewish treasure buried in Polish soil. His curiosity is aroused when he learns of the location of the hiding -..

The Matchmaker (2010)

Pa'am Ha'iti

Directed by: Avi Nesher

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In 1968 Haifa, a teenage boy gets a summer job with a Holocaust survivor who makes ends meet by brokering marriages and smuggling goods. Throughout the summer, the mysterious matchmaker takes the on..

Daddy Come to the Fair (1996)

Abbaleh, Bo L'Luna Park

Directed by: Nitza Gonen

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The film documents the pilgrimage of a father and son, journeying from alienation and reaching reconciliation and empathy. MORDECHAI VILOZNY, the father, is a Holocaust survivor visiting a..

Family Picture

Directed by: Itszhak Haluki

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A dinner invitation transports them to their past during the Holocaust and provides an opportunity for revenge.

Out of the Forest (2003)

Stimmen aus dem Wald

Directed by: Limor Pinhasov Ben Yosef

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This Israeli documentary opens old wounds in the remote Lithuanian village of Polnar, where over 100,000 – mainly Jews – were murdered by the Nazis during WWII. We listen to testimonies..

Permission to Remember (2003)

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When a group of survivors challenges the designation of Stephen Wermchuk as one of The Righteous Among the Nations, those gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust, they come into conflict with a..

Liebe Perla (1999)

Perla Yakirati

Directed by: Shahar Rozen

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During the Nazi regime, Dr. Josef Mengele conducted "scientific" experiments on and shot "research" footage of a Hungarian Jewish family of dwarfs. (Mengele, by experimenting on them, saved them the..

War and Love (1985)

Directed by: Moshe Mizrahi

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From the ashes of man's darkest hour comes an incredible true story. War and Love painstakingly recreates the horrific nightmare suffered by Jews in Warsaw during the German invasion of 1939, and in..

The Cemetery Club (2006)

Moadon beit hakvarot

Directed by: Tali Shemesh

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10 oclock, Saturday morning. A group of elderly women and men carry plastic lawn chairs across the Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem...In the shade of an old pine tree, they sit down, in a..

Ponar (2002)

Directed by: Racheli Schwartz

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The Jews used many ways to struggle against the Nazi system. One way, perhaps the most heroic and least familiar, was the cultural struggle. Against the threat of impending death, the horrors of and..

The Last Krasucky (2009)

Ha'Krasucky ha'aharon

Directed by: Y.A. Krasucky

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The 94-year-old grandmother of the director, Tosha Krasucky, only wants to die. However, before she moves to the next world, she needs to release a skeleton from her closet. Three years ago, she her..

Kleiner Rudy (2006)

Directed by: Michelle Stein Teer

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Rudy Wolff, an eighty-five-year-old Holocaust survivor, invites his granddaughter, director of the film, to join him in visiting his German birthplace. Once there, Wolff meets his childhood friends,..

Song of Life (2006)

Directed by: Yosi Leon, Ran Brener

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The documentary Song of Life follows the one hundred singers of the "Israeli Philharmonic Singers Choir " on their tour to Poland, performing at the Ceremony commemorating 60 years since the of the..

The Bunker (2002)

Directed by: Nitza Gonen

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The film chronicles a few months in the life of Pinchas Cohen-Gan - one of Israel's greatest artists. In recent years, Cohen-Gan's art has expressed his obsession with Nazi Germany. This has drawn..

The Children of Teheran (2007)

Directed by: Yehuda Caveh, David Tour, Dalia Guttman

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World War II. Autumn of 1939. The Nazis occupied Poland and thousands of Jewish families escaped eastward, into the hands of the Russian army that exiled the refugees to the freezing weather, hunger..

Eichmann’s End: Love, Betrayal, Death (2010)

Directed by: Raymond Ley

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Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, managed to escape to Argentina at the end of World War II. Many know the story of how Mossad agents traveled there in 1960 in order to bring a..

A Jewish Girl in Shanghai (2010)

Directed by: Wang Genfa

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A Jewish Girl in Shanghai, based upon the popular graphic novel by Wu Lin, is the first Chinese animated film to portray the Holocaust. Artfully created with traditionally animated imagery, us..

The Hangman (2010)

Hatalyan

Directed by: Netalie Braun, Avigail Sperber

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The life of Shalom, the Nazi major officer Adolf Eichmann's hangman, turned ritual slaughterer, encapsulates the story of Israel from the perspective of the "other" - the marginalized Sephardi who a..

Pesya's Necklace (2006)

Hasharsheret Shel Pesya

Directed by: Jorge Gurvich

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On her eightieth birthday, Pesya Goldfarb is determined to return to her parents` house located in Poland. Traveling with her teenage granddaughter, she intends to find a golden necklace, which was..

Promised Land (2008)

Ha'aretz Hamuvtachat

Directed by: Avi Hemy

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Hardships, confusion and pessimism bring unprecedented numbers of Israelis to the doorsteps of European embassies, applying for foreign passports in search of a brighter future and a safer Land of -..

Memories of the Eichmann Trial (1979)

Directed by: David Perlov

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Layers upon layers of memory are laid down in David Perlov's film 'Memories of the Eichmann Trial,' a unique historical and cinematic document. In interviews that Perlov conducted in his apartment a..

Nocturnal Variations on a Theme (2011)

Directed by: Tsur Avigad

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Three unbelievable views on the liberation of a prisoner from a death camp, blessed with happiness, which end with painful return, realizing there in no real escape from what he has endured.

My Australia (2011)

Ostralia Sheli

Directed by: Ami Drozd

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Poland, the mid 1960s. A struggling family in an impoverished neighborhood. The mother, separated from her Polish husband, spends most of her time at work in order to provide the basic needs for her..

Mother Economy (2007)

Heshbonia

Directed by: Maya Zak

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Mother Economy is a meditation on Holocaust remembrance and an homage to resourceful women during violent periods of political upheaval. Wearing glasses, a lace-collared blouse, and her hair neatly..

Lonely Planet (2012)

Planettah Acheret

Directed by: Edan Zeira

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A film crew sets out on an unusual, adventurous quest throughout Siberia in search of an elusive Holocaust survivor who was a small boy during World War II. He hid out from the Germans for 3..

Night After Night

Lailah ve'Od Lailah

Directed by: Tamar Yaron

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Set in the 1960s, Night After Night tells the story of Manfred, a 45-year-old Holocaust survivor, who is currently living in a Jerusalem hotel. One day, a beautiful poetess comes to the hotel..

Mr. Joseph's Empire (2011)

Mashtap

Directed by: Doron Eran

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In 1940 Joseph Joanovici entered the office of the Gestapo commander in Paris and offered to provide iron to the German army in exchange for saving his family, thus becoming the biggest Jewish with..

Burning Paris (2013)

Pariz Bo'eret

Directed by: Itamar Alcalay

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Yeshayahu Beitel was born in Sweden to a Holocaust survivor father and a sickly mother who died when he was 14. At age 27 he decided to become a photographer and brought his camera to Paris. There a..

Just the Two of Us (2011)

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This documentary follows the last 2 living survivors of Treblinka when the return to the place from which they fled.

Six Million in Two Rooms (2011)

Shisha Milyon be-Shnei Chadarim

Directed by: Barak Heymann, Tomer Heymann

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Tsi-la Piran, a second generation Israeli daughter of Holocaust survivors chooses to deal with her personal deamons by conducting therapy workshops throughout Germany and Poland with the troubled of..

Tladino (2010)

Tladino

Directed by: Gal Shani

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The film tells the story of the Jewish community of Salonika during the Holocaust through the story of Alberto Matarasso, a retired Haifa dock worker.

Yorek (2010)

Yorek

Directed by: Yaron Gurevich

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The film tells the life story of Yorek, the 81-year-old Holocaust survivor known as the "wolf boy" from the Warsaw Ghetto, whose heoric youth was immortalized in many stories.

The Heart That Sings (2011)

Directed by: Robin Garbose

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Set in 1950, The Heart That Sings tells the poignant story of a brokenhearted orphan from the Holocaust trying to begin life again when she is hired as the music and drama counselor at an elite..

10% - What Makes a Hero? (2013)

10% - Mah Hofech Adam Lagibor?

Directed by: Yoav Shamir

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What makes a hero? What compels someone to maintain their integrity, go against the grain and fight for what is just? Award-winning director Yoav Shamir sets out on an entertaining and insightful of..

Six Million and One (2011)

Shisha Milyon ve-echad

Directed by: David Fisher, Irit Shimrat

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Joseph Fisher's four children wear white helmets, hold flashlights in their hands and walk through a long and massive tunnel. "Reminds me of 'Hasamba,'" mumbles one of them, referring to the series..

Hitler's Children (2011)

Yaldey Hitler

Directed by: Chanoch Ze'evi

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This documentary introduces us to family members of prominent figures from the Nazi regime. The children and and grandchildren of Nazis discuss the negotiation between their natural admiration of of..

Here I Learned to Love (2011)

Directed by: Avi Angel

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Two brothers. Three Mothers. Survival against all odds. Standing near the Western Wall in Jerusalem Avner says: "This is the moment when I claim victory over the Nazis." Two brothers, three - a in..

The Chabad Rebbe and the German Officer (2011)

Ha'rabi Ve'hakatzin Ha'germani

Directed by: Larry Price

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The story of the rescue of the 6th Lubavitch Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, from war-torn Warsaw in 1939 by half-Jewish German Spy Maj. Ernst Bloch working under direct orders of Admiral Wilhelm..

Wasserman: The Rain Man (2005)

Wasserman: Eesh Hagashem

Directed by: Idit Shehori

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Seventy-three year old Wasserman swore never to pray again. He blames God for his family`s annihilation during the Holocaust. He is unwilling to forgive. But a dire situation forces Wasserman to He..

Eye Drops (2012)

Eyedrops

Directed by: Mohammad Bakri

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Mohammad Bakri and his two sons, Saleh and Ziad, are living in a small flat in Tel Aviv. Their neighbor Sarah, a Holocaust survivor, asks them to assist her with her eye-drop medication. A unique on..

In These Words (2012)

B'Milin Eileh

Directed by: Adir Slutzki

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“In September 1944, we, 18 Jewish doctors were chosen”—the opening words of Dr. Aharon Beilin’s testimony at the Eichmann trial are the background to the journey of two left..

Angels in White (2012)

Mal'Akhiyot Be-Lavan

Directed by: Tali Avrahami

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Set in the women's camp at Auschwitz in 1945, the film reveals the power of the young Jewish girls who united and fought the Nazis with their most powerful weapon-faith.

The Fifth Heaven (2011)

Ba-Rakiya Ha-Chamishi

Directed by: Dina Tzvi-Riklis

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Based on the novel by Rachel Eytan. Summer 1944. 13 year old Maya is placed in a foster home. The director of the home falls in love with her, as Maya reminds him of a tortured love affair from his..

Numbered (2012)

Sfurim

Directed by: Dana Doron, Uriel Sinai

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Auschwitz prisoners, both Jewish or non-Jewish, were tattooed with serial numbers, first on their chests and then their left arms. An estimated 400,000 numbers were tattooed in Auschwitz and its are..

Pensyon Frect (2012)

Directed by: Tamar Yarom

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The 1960s. In a hostel inhabited by Holocaust survivors and run by the severe Madame Frect, Manfred meets a beautiful Yiddish poetess and decides to do something that will give meaning to his life.

The King of Scrap-Iron (2012)

Melech Ha-Gruta'Ot

Directed by: Doron Eran

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Joseph Joanovici, the biggest Jewish supplier to the Nazi regime, managed to finance the French underground, saving over 1,500 Jews. Was he a devil or a saint?

Last Dance of Karla (2011)

Ha-Rikud Ha'Acharon Shel Klara

Directed by: Nilly Keslar

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The story of Klara, a concentration-camp survivor who came to Jerusalem and realized her dream of opening a dance school.

Liga Terezin (2012)

Directed by: Mike Schwartz

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The unbelievable story of the football league from the Terezin Ghetto in Czechoslovakia, whose members were professional and amateur players imprisoned there.

Orchestra of Exiles (2011)

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In the early 1930s, Hitler began forcing Jewish musicians out of orchestras, leaving some of Europe's most talented musicians jobless. This film tells of a brilliant young musician's coming of age,..

Sharsheret Ha-Zikaron (2010)

Sharsheret Ha-Zikston

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In the villages of Stolin and Horoduk, almost all the Jews were murdered by the Nazis in 1941-42 and buried in mass graves. The story of the two villages between the world wars is woven in with that..

This is Not a Holocaust Film (2012)

Ze lo seret Shoah

Directed by: Leora Eisenstein

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The director, her sister, and a private investigator, head for the Ukraine to rturn the family's stolen property. Trying to get details out of their 82 year old mother, a complex family history is..

Letter From the Past (2012)

(Mikhtav me-he’avar

Directed by: Ofer Zingerman

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It took the letter 28 years to arrive from Berlin, East Germany to Tel-Aviv, Israel. But what troubles Menachem is the content of the letter. He's afraid to find out what the brother he lost contact..

One Day You Will Understand (2008)

Plus Tard

Directed by: Amos Gitai

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A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Call Me A Jew (2012)

Directed by: Michael Pfeifenberger

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The complicity of large parts of the Austrian people in the Nazi extermination of the Jewish people remains a palpable presence to this day. What is it like growing up as a Jews in the land of the a..

Every Kid is Eighty (2012)

Directed by: Aliza Eshed, Ruth Kavish, Amnon Ben-Zeev

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Four friends in their eighties, close friends since they were 16, tell their stories about their experiences over the past 60 or so years. They were together in agricultural schools, volunteered for..

My German Children (2012)

Directed by: Tom Tamar Pauer

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Tom grew up in Israel, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor father and a German mother who had volunteered on Kibbutz Yotvata as penance for the sins of her fathers. Her mother raised three in but a..

Photonovela (2012)

Directed by: Chen Shelach

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A twelve-year-old girl must complete an ancestry assignment for school. Slowly, the boring task transforms into a sweeping drama embodying many secrets about three generations of one before WWII, as..

Auschwitz on My Mind (2012)

Directed by: Assaf MacHnes

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Roy, a young Israeli teenager, visits Poland on a school trip between death camps and memorials. However, for Roy, Holocaust remembrance is not the only purpose of the journey; Roy fancies a girl to..

Pracht Pension (2018)

pensiyon pracht

Directed by: Tamar Yarom

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An adaptation of Aharon Appelfeld's novel Night after Night. In the sixties, a group of Holocaust survivors live together in a hostel in Jerusalem and struggle to revive the Yiddish language.

Bureau o6 (2013)

Lishka 06

Directed by: Yoav Halevy

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The dramatic story of "Bureau 06", the team of police investigators formed for the intent purpose of investigating and preparing the grave charges brought up by the Jewish people against Adolf The a..

Chicken Soup With Knives (2013)

Maral of im sakinim

Directed by: Leora Eisenstein

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The filmmaker's journey to Lviv, Ukraine-her family's hometown before WW II-brings together past and present, painful memories and dramatic insights.

Farewell, Herr Schwartz (2013)

Heye shalom, Peter Schwartz

Directed by: Yael Reuveny

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A quest after a relative who was considered dead, murdered in the Holocaust, but was discovered to be living, only so he could die again in the last place on earth you can imagine,

Four Years Of Night (2013)

Arba shanim shel layla

Directed by: Itamar Alcalay

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Between 1977 and 1981, Esaias Baitel, a Swedish-born photographer, the son of an Auschwitz survivor, documented a violent Parisian neo-Nazi gang.

GISI (2013)

Gisi

Directed by: Natasha Dudinski

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Gisi Fleischmann believed she could stop the Holocaust if only she succeeded to raise enough money. She led a resistance group in Slovakia which tried to stop the deportations of Jews from Slovakia..

Skornik-In The Name Of The Father (2013)

Skornik – be-shem ha-av

Directed by: Itai Livne

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Idan has no choice but to become a martial arts champion, trained by his father in a method developed by his Holocaust survivor grandfather.

A Letter to Wedgwood (2012)

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“A Letter to Wedgwood: The Life of Gabriella Hartstein Auspitz” – the story of how a young girl’s meeting with a progressive British politician led to her surviving the..

Hanna's Journey (2013)

Hanna Reise

Directed by: Julia von Heinz

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When Hanna moves from Germany to Israel to beef up her resume with community service work, she is confronted with a past she has spent a lifetime denying. Through her job working with individuals a..

The Dark Side (2016)

Hatsad Hafel

Directed by: Natalie Assouline Terebilo

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86-year-old Moshe Knebel appears to be a regular grandfather. Maybe a tad sturdier and stronger than most, but still a normal old man. Moshe Knebel, however, is anything but ordinary. He took Today,..

There and Here (2014)

Sham Vekan

Directed by: Avida Livny

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When Harry Klaussner, a Holocaust survivor who hid his past to become a pilot, went to the flight academy, he befriended navigator Shaia Harsit. The two spent hours up in the air, but only after did..

The Last Nazi Hunter (2012)

Tzayad Hanatzim Ha’acharon

Directed by: Nitza Gonen

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Seventy years after the Holocaust, this film follows Dr. Efraim Zuroff tracking down and bringing to justice the last surviving Nazi war criminals. Will his work contribute to the Holocaust's takes..

The Decent One (2014)

Adam Hagun / Der Anständige

Directed by: Vanessa Lapa

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Through previously unrevealed private letters, photos and diaries, "The Decent One" grants a unique and at times uncomfortable access to the life and mind of the merciless "architect of the Final -..

Absent God – Emmanuel Levinas and the Humanism of the Other

Ha’el Ha-Ne’edar

Directed by: Yoram Ron

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The Absent God is a documentary film about the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th century. Inspired by modern philosophy and ancient Jewish texts, Levinas..

Bureau 06 – The Architects of the Eichmann Trial (2013)

Lishka 06

Directed by: Yoav Halevy

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A finalist for best Israeli Documentary Award at the Ophir Awards (Israel’s Oscars) in 2013 and the recipient of an honourable mention at the Jerusalem Film Festival the same the dramatic..

Fringe Story (2014)

Bashulaim

Directed by: Tor Ben Mayor

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The story of the fringe theatre ‘Orto-Da’ whose play ‘Stones’ has a sculpture as the hero. Towards the end of the Second World War, the sculptor Natan..

Night Shift (2013)

Mishmeret Laila

Directed by: Itamar Chen

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Kiryat Moshe neighborhood is undoubtedly the most homogeneous in Israel. Every decade there has been a population turnover: Holocaust survivors, followed immigrants from Arab countries, followed by..

Tsili

Directed by: Amos Gitai

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Based on the novel by Aharon Appelfeld

The Chaos Within (2014)

Directed by: Yakov Yanai Lein

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A journey through Kabbalah, heroin, chaos & redemption. For ten years, Yannai has filmed his own and his Mother's lives changing dramatically. His Mother, Faiga, is a holocaust survivor, who at..

The Pracht Inn (2014)

Directed by: Tamar Yaron

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An adaptation of Aharon Appelfeld's novel Night after Night. In the sixties, a group of holocaust survivors live together in a hostel in Jerusalem. At night they meet in the corridor to drink cognac..

The Guardians of Remembrance (2014)

Directed by: Boris Maftsir

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The Holocaust of the Jews in the former Soviet Union has remained a mystery, even for the many decades after the war has ended. Due to Ideological and political reasons the Soviet regime did not the..

Vita Activa, The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

Directed by: Ada Ushpiz

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A personal spiritual biography of the Jewish philosopher, Hannah Arendt, who coined the controversial phrase "The Banality of Evil," in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. The movie tracks the between..

My Father Was a Kapo (2015)

Directed by: Ron Ninio

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When the son of the Kapo of the death block in Auschwitz arrives to the place his father ruled unrestrictedly, bribed the Nazis to save the prisoners from certain death, he meets, in the very same..

Kapo in Jerusalem (2015)

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1946. A pair of Auschwitz survivors arrives in Jerusalem. Bruno is a doctor and Sarah a pianist. They are trying to rehabilitate their lives and love in a city under siege during the War of Upon a a..

The Kozalchic Affair (2015)

Directed by: Roni Ninio

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A remarkable journey to recover the past and discover a father. A different take on the Holocaust.

The Tour Guide (2014)

Ha Madricha

Directed by: Amos Geva

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To be Jewish in Berlin is to discover yourself eating a sandwich in what was once Hitler's office, to pass the headquarters of the SS on your way to your dentist appointment. Nirit Ben Joseph, an in..

After the Mist - A Story of Resilience (2015)

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Bulgarian Rhapsody/Israel Bulgaria (2014)

Directed by: Ivan Nitchev, Moni Moshonov, Tatyana Lolova

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Summer of 1943. The Jews of Greater Bulgaria must adhere to the laws of Germany. Moni, (17) a Jewish youngster from Sofia and Giogio the son of the commissar for Jewish affairs' driver, meets Shelly..

Holocaust. The Eastern Front (2016)

Directed by: Boris Maftsir

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For ideological and political reasons, the Soviet Union did not recognize the unique tragedy of the Holocaust. Thus, documentation, research or memorials were not attainable. It was as if the of and..

A Story in Third Person (2016)

Directed by: Yarden Karmin

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One daughter in tribute to her mother, who against her will became a hero during the Holocaust. Zuzi Braun and her sister Agi were happy, secure teenagers with a very strong connection, in Slovakia..

Rendezvous at Erasmus (2015)

Directed by: Annet Betsalel

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Recently an amazing story was discovered in the archives of a Jewish community in Holland:Through a chance meeting, two German soldiers- both artists - saved hundreds of Dutch Jews from the..

Tunnel of Hope (2015)

Directed by: Dror H. Shwartz

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In 1943, 250 Jewish slave workers successfully escaped from a Nazi labor camp in Novogrudok, Belarus, via a tunnel they dug. The film follows the remaining escapees, accompanied by their in..

A Trip to the Other Planet (2014)

Directed by: Tom Kless

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An animated portrait of the hallucinatory journey of consciousness experienced by Jewish writer Yechiel De-Nur ("KaTzetnik 135633"), during a psychiatric treatment with the hallucinate drug LSD, in..

Fever at Dawn (2015)

Directed by: Péter Gárdos

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A true story. In 1945, after having been freed from a concentration camp, the 25-year-old Hungarian man, Miklós is being treated at a Swedish hospital. The doctors diagnose him with a severe..

Josef and Aimee (2015)

Directed by: Ben Shirinian

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Finding refuge in an orphanage in the south of France as the Nazi invasion nears, young Josef is devastated when Aimée is adopted by another family and they are separated, so he sets out on a..

The Essential Link (2016)

Wilfrid Israel - The Essential Link

Directed by: Yonatan Nir

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Wilfrid Israel, the owner of a department store in the center of Berlin, was one of the great saviors of Jews during the Holocaust ? and played a key role in the Kindertransport operation. The story..