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Choosing Exile
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directed by Marc Radomsky; produced by Marc Radomsky (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002), 56 mins
Filmmaker Marc Radomsky is third generation South African. His grandfather emigrated from Lithuania to escape pogroms. The family established their roots in Johannesburg and prospered. However Marc and his wife see that growing lawlessness and crime in post-Apartheid South Africa has driven the white community int...
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directed by Marc Radomsky; produced by Marc Radomsky (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002), 56 mins
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The Danish Solution
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directed by Karen Cantor, fl. 2003 and Camilla Kjærulff, fl. 2003; produced by Karen Cantor, fl. 2003 and Camilla Kjærulff, fl. 2003, Singing Wolf Documentaries, Inc. (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2004), 59 mins
Sixty years ago the Final Solution was attempted in Denmark. The plan was averted, over 95 percent of the country's Jewish population survived the war. How and why Jews escaped the Nazis' blueprint for their extermination is the subject of this compelling new documentary film. Through the very human testimony of s...
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directed by Karen Cantor, fl. 2003 and Camilla Kjærulff, fl. 2003; produced by Karen Cantor, fl. 2003 and Camilla Kjærulff, fl. 2003, Singing Wolf Documentaries, Inc. (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2004), 59 mins
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Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris, 1941-1944
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directed by Stephen Trombley; produced by Bruce Eadie, Worldview Pictures Production (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996, originally published 1994), 54 mins
Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris, 1941-1944 is a startling new film which examines in detail how the French authorities arrested and interned more than 74,000 Jews before sending them to Auschwitz. Only 2,500 survived. Drancy explores the structure of the Holocaust in France: how the Nazis brought the French...
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directed by Stephen Trombley; produced by Bruce Eadie, Worldview Pictures Production (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996, originally published 1994), 54 mins
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Fading Traces
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directed by Walo Deuber; produced by Rose Marie Schneider, Doc Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 1998), 1 hour 7 mins
The western Ukraine was once home to the largest Jewish community that ever existed. Five million Jews living there had a rich culture, with Jewish music abounding and a thriving Yiddish theater. All this disappeared with the German invasion of Russia in 1941 and the tragic events of the Holocaust. Fading Traces a...
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directed by Walo Deuber; produced by Rose Marie Schneider, Doc Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 1998), 1 hour 7 mins
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Finding Kalman
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directed by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman; produced by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2010), 27 mins
How will we tell the story of the Holocaust when the survivors are gone? In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary, a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to connect to relatives they could never meet. Focusing on her brother Kalman, Anna recounts tales of a mischievous boy who tried...
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directed by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman; produced by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2010), 27 mins
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Fragments of Isabella
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directed by Ronan O'Leary, 1959-; produced by Michael Scott and Ronan O'Leary, 1959- (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996), 1 hour 13 mins
Finally available from the festival circuit, this riveting film based on the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book by Isabella Leitner, recounts the true story of a young Hungarian Jew and her sisters interned in Auschwitz, their struggle to survive, and their daring escape from a death march to Bergen Belsen. In 1944, Is...
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directed by Ronan O'Leary, 1959-; produced by Michael Scott and Ronan O'Leary, 1959- (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996), 1 hour 13 mins
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Freedom to Hate
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produced by Ray Errol Errol (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1994, originally published 1993), 1 hour 7 mins
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ray Errol Fox took extraordinary personal risks documenting the new form of anti-Semitism emerging in the former Soviet Union. While Russian anti-Semitism has been a constant in that country's troubled history, it has been unleashed with disturbing virulence by the nationalist movement, "...
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produced by Ray Errol Errol (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1994, originally published 1993), 1 hour 7 mins
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How Jacques Jaujard Saved the Louvre
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directed by Jean-Pierre Devillers, fl. 1980-2015 and Pierre Pochart, fl. 1991-2015; produced by Hélène Badinter, fl. 2004-2015 and Laura Barraud, fl. 2012-2014, Ladybirds Films (France: Wide House, 2014), 56 mins
At the dawn of World War II, a resistance group organized an incredible raid of masterpieces from the Louvre, lest they end up in the hands of the Nazis. Jacques Jaujard, the assistant director of the museum, conceived and executed this daring operation. Without his ingenuity and bravery, many of the museum’s ma...
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directed by Jean-Pierre Devillers, fl. 1980-2015 and Pierre Pochart, fl. 1991-2015; produced by Hélène Badinter, fl. 2004-2015 and Laura Barraud, fl. 2012-2014, Ladybirds Films (France: Wide House, 2014), 56 mins
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Living Testimony From The Holocaust
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produced by Cathrine Wik (Oslo, Oslo County: Nordic World, 2006, originally published 2006), 1 hour
Prior to the Second World War, some 2,000 Jews lived in Norway; today, only a handful are still alive. This documentary features interviews with five of the survivors, three men and two women. Three are alive because they succeeded in evading arrest, the other two because chance enabled them to survive incarcerati...
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produced by Cathrine Wik (Oslo, Oslo County: Nordic World, 2006, originally published 2006), 1 hour
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Modus Operandi: The German Occupation of Belgium
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directed by Hugues Lanneau; produced by Willy Perelsztejn, fl. 2011 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2011), 1 hour 38 mins
From 1942 to 1944, 24,916 Jewish men, women and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. Only 1,206 survived. Modus Operandi raises and systematically answers the question: How did just a handful of Nazis, with the help, voluntary or unwitting, of the Belgian authorities, bring about their destruction? I...
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directed by Hugues Lanneau; produced by Willy Perelsztejn, fl. 2011 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2011), 1 hour 38 mins
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