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81) Leona
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Tells the story of a young Jewish woman from Mexico City who finds herself torn between her family and her forbidden love. Ripe with all the drama and interpersonal conflicts of a Jane Austen novel, Ariela navigates the labyrinth of familial pressure, religious precedent, and her own burgeoning independence as she struggles with her heart to find the right path.
83) The rendezvous
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Rachel, a Jewish-American doctor, and Jake, an Arab-American government bureaucrat, go on a goose chase across the Middle East trying to solve the mysterious death of Rachel's treasure hunting brother. From Los Angeles to the deserts of Jordan and the ancient city of Petra, they find themselves hunted by a doomsday group called the Armageddonites who believe Rachel and Jake possess the missing Dead Sea Scroll that could bring about the end of days....
Pub. Date
℗2005, ©1994.
Language
English
Description
Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust and asks the question "Why didn't America do more?" Looks at America's inaction through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government.
87) Varian's war
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
[Widescreen edition].
Language
English
Description
The story of Varian Fry, a forgotten hero of World War II. He constructed an elaborate underground rescue network saving some of the most influential figures of that era, including painter Marc Chagall. The safe arrival of these individuals in the United States permanently changed the face of American culture.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The documentary follows a group of aging Holocaust survivors during what may be their last summer together at a compound in the Catskill Mountains of New York. For twenty-five years they have spent the long summer days in the company of others who understand their pasts and their pain.
89) La rafle
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the true experiences of individuals caught up in the Vel' d'Hiv roundup. In the summer of 1942 the French government, on the orders of the Nazi occupiers, conducted mass arrests of Jews in Paris and herded them into the Velodrome d'Hiver and a nearby internment camp from which they were ultimately shipped to Auschwitz and executed. Over 13,000 victims, including over 4000 children, were subjects of this atrocity.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Departing Hamburg in high spirits, 937 Jewish Germans have been offered safe haven in Havana, Cuba, in 1939. The passengers are looking forward to their new life. However, the whole voyage is actually a Nazi propaganda scheme and the passengers are never really intended to be allowed ashore once they reach their destination. After weeks of unsuccessful pleas they are forced to return back to Europe. Based on the tragic 1939 voyage of the SS St. Louis....
92) Madame Rosa
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
Madam Rosa, a French-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust now runs a boarding house in Paris for the children of prostitutes. She takes a liking to Momo, an Algerian boy who she raises in the Muslim faith, a controversial decision in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But their bond transcends religion, and they scrape by as an unlikely but loving family. That is, until her health declines and the intolerance around them threatens to tear them apart....
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
Regina Resnik narrates this documentary juxtaposing the modern day sights and sounds of Venice, Italy, with artwork and maps from the city's time as a Jewish ghetto between approximately 1516 and 1797. The program also chronicles Mussolini's rise to power, the formation of the Axis, and the decimation of Venetian Jewry.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An American Pickle stars Seth Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling labourer who immigrates to America in 1919 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. One day, while working at his factory job, he falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. The brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present day Brooklyn, he finds that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he learns that his only...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Examines the political and social forces that fueled anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s and led to the Wannsee Conference in 1942 where Nazi leaders formulated their plans for the world-wide eradication of the Jewish people. Includes interviews with scholars Eberhard Jäckel and Yehuda Bauer
96) The hiding place
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
With the Nazi invasion of Holland, Corrie ten Boom's family joins the resistance to help save persecuted Jewish families. When they are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps themselves, they have nothing left to cling to but their faith.
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Special edition.
Language
Czech
Description
With this simultaneously harrowing and lyrical debut feature, Jan Nemec established himself as the most uncompromising visionary among the radical filmmakers who made up the Czechoslovak New Wave. Adapted from a novel by Arno₍t Lustig, closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp transport and flee into the surrounding woods, a hostile terrain where the brute realities of survival coexist with dreams, memories, and fragments of visual...
100) Never forget to lie
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In his latest film, Marian Marzynski tells the extraordinary story of how he as a Jewish boy escaped the Holocaust, hiding from the Nazis, and surviving the war as an altar boy in a Catholic monastery. In a deeply moving and personal film he shares the poignant, painful recollections of other child survivors, many of whom are visiting scenes of their childhood for the last time.
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