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- DirectorPeter MorleyStarsKitty Hart-MoxonKitty, a Jewish survivor from the Holocaust, is taken back to Auschwitz, where she revives her imprisonment and life under the 3rd Reich
- This Soviet Army film of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp was awarded the Red Banner in 1945. It contains dramatic footage of the survivors and some of the atrocities perpetrated in this most notorious of camps.
- DirectorSheldon Lazarus
- DirectorCarlos HernandoA Sephardic Jew, born in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, tells about the harrowing experience of having been imprisoned for two years in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, and how his life was saved thanks to being able to play the violin.
- DirectorThomas MitscherlichStarsGerhard DurlacherYehuda BaconRuth KlügerJourney into Life follows the struggles of three concentration camp survivors--Yehuda Bacon is Israel, Gerhard Durlacher of The Netherlands, and Ruth Kluger of the United States--in rebuilding their lives after World War II.
- DirectorYahaly GatStarsYariv NornbergA young student, Yariv Nornberg, hears from an elderly vendor in a rundown shop a fantastic story about a Jewish treasure buried in Polish soil. His curiosity is aroused when he learns of the location of the hiding place - next to the infamous Auschwitz extermination camp. During the next 5 years, Yariv pursues these lost religious artifacts, hidden in the grounds of the Great Synagogue in the city of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in 1939. For him, these artifacts embody his own perished family and guide his attempt for a closure and acceptance of the Polish people, usually regarded by Jews as collaborators and anti-Semites. Yariv manages to organize a unique archaeological excavation to unearth the treasure. But as the digging progresses, it becomes apparent that the synagogue's soil conceals a 60-year-old sinister secret and Yariv and his crew begin to lose hope. Until one morning a shovel hits a metallic object in one of the ditches.The search and excavation for the treasure translates within the film to a succession of poignant metaphors - to the Jewish existence in Poland and its annihilation, to the possibility of a dialog between the younger generations, to the capacity of Nazi evilness embodied in the presence of the nearby death camp and above all - to the growing sentiment that only 60 years have gone by and already WW2 and it's greatest nightmare - the Holocaust - is tragically transforming into an archaeological exhibit.
- DirectorMichel MeesFrom Auschwitz to Jerusalem tells the story of Jewish children. Hidden children, often converted to the catholic religion so they could survive the genocide. After the war, many of them, who had become orphans, were collected by the Jewish Agency and placed in reception centres in Belgium. This was the beginning for them of a long trip, real as well as symbolic, searching for their lost Jewish identity. A trip which would clandestinely lead them all the way to Palestine.