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Tells the compelling history of the State of Israel through the eyes of Israel’s octogenarian President who has been forging Israel’s destiny since its founding in 1948. Willy Lindwer conducted an exclusive interview with Mr. Peres on the eve of the celebration of Israel’s 60th Independence Day in which Peres revealed many previously untold tales of his life and career. Lindwer also interviewed Peres’ daughter Zvia in a rare appearance and close friend Al Schwimmer, who helped bring vital weapons to Israel in its early years and later built Israel’s world-class aircraft industry. Lindwer spoke with Peres’ confidant and biographer, Michael Bar-Zohar, with Peres’ political enemy Benjamin Netanyahu, and with the senior Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat.

Based on the book “In Memoriam” by Guus Luijters, the gripping film ttells the story of 9 anonymous Dutch children who were deported from the Netherlands and murdered. Former non-Jewish classmates, neighborhood children and friends, tell about their murdered Jewish boyfriend and girlfriend. These are small childhood memories, that tell about a bow in the hair of a girl, a frog in a well, or the big brown eyes of a baby. Former Dutch cabinet Minister Frits Korthals Altes remembers his classmate Riekje Teixeira de Mattos; she was 13-years old when she was killed in Auschwitz. Dutch actress Nelly Frijda remembers the baby Edje van Sijes whom she was babysitting at the beginning of the occupation. Edje was four years old when he was murdered in Sobibor. Photographer Eddy Posthuma de Boer talks about the twins brothers Harold and Paul Duizend. He waved ‘goodbye’ to them at the Olympia Square in Amsterdam, as they sat in tram-line 24 when they made their one way trip were to Westerbork and Auschwitz. Writer-journalist Henk ten Berge, who lived in the province city of Alkmaar, tells about his friend Peter Israels, and the ‘story of the frog’. After all Jews of Alkmaar were rounded up, he never saw him again. Nothing is known about the eleven-year-old Sientje Abram, who lived in Rapenburgerstraat in Amsterdam, except the fact that she was killed in Auschwitz. No photo, no memory. Guus Luijters has made a reconstruction and tells in the film about her, based on the summary of data on her short life in the old Jewish quarter of Amsterdam.

Jerusalem: City of History
3000 Years of Jerusalem’s history, told by families who are deeply rooted in the city. These Jewish, Christian and Moslem families share their knowledge and express their own special feelings for the city of peace that remains a city of conflict.

Jerusalem: City of Religion
3000 Years of Jerusalem’s history, told by families who are deeply rooted in the city. These Jewish, Christian and Moslem families share their knowledge and express their own special feelings for the city of peace that remains a city of conflict.

Jerusalem: City of Peace
3000 Years of Jerusalem’s history, told by families who are deeply rooted in the city. These Jewish, Christian and Moslem families share their knowledge and express their own special feelings for the city of peace that remains a city of conflict.

The Birth of a Movement
A gripping three-part series on the Jewish people’s return to their ancestral homeland and establishment of the Jewish state. Beginning in the late 19th century among European Jews, the saga continues as a small number of highly motivated pioneers make their way to Palestine under Ottoman and then British rule, and set up the political, social, and military infrastructure for the Jewish homeland. WWII and the Holocaust almost puts an end to the state-in-making. Since the UN-recognition of Israel in 1947, millions of Jews immigrate, creating a new Jewish society.

The Building of a Nation
A gripping three-part series on the Jewish people’s return to their ancestral homeland and establishment of the Jewish state. Beginning in the late 19th century among European Jews, the saga continues as a small number of highly motivated pioneers make their way to Palestine under Ottoman and then British rule, and set up the political, social, and military infrastructure for the Jewish homeland. WWII and the Holocaust almost puts an end to the state-in-making. Since the UN-recognition of Israel in 1947, millions of Jews immigrate, creating a new Jewish society.

The Israeli Experience
A gripping three-part series on the Jewish people’s return to their ancestral homeland and establishment of the Jewish state. Beginning in the late 19th century among European Jews, the saga continues as a small number of highly motivated pioneers make their way to Palestine under Ottoman and then British rule, and set up the political, social, and military infrastructure for the Jewish homeland. WWII and the Holocaust almost puts an end to the state-in-making. Since the UN-recognition of Israel in 1947, millions of Jews immigrate, creating a new Jewish society.

1.5 Million Jewish children were killed during the Holocaust. Many of those who survived were traumatized as the war changed their lives dramatically. This film tells the story of children during the Holocaust, some hidden and some survivors of concentration camps and their post-war traumatic experiences. A gripping account of 8 orphan child survivors: Itta Ben Haiem-Keller, Shewach Weiss, David de Levita, Haim Dasberg, Ruth Tatarko, Channa Cohen Harounoff-de Bock, Rachel Hollander and Haim Peles-Vleeschhouwer.