Grade levels: Adult

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.

In “Camp of Hope and Despair,” Willy Lindwer documents the tragic history of this infamous site. He sought out some of the few survivors of the camp in the Netherlands, Germany, Israel and the United States. Many of them tell their story for the first time. Camp Westerbork in Eastern Holland was the last stop before more than 100,000 Dutch Jews were deported to Nazi concentration camps – nearly 80% of the Dutch Jews were deported by the Nazis – the highest percentage in Western Europe. The poignancy of the story is heightened by the remarkable photographs and films of Rudolf Breslauer, camp photographer and are seen here for the first time.

Holocaust Program

Eleven minutes of rare film footage of a Jewish wedding that took place in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam in 1942 was recently discovered and entrusted to Willy Lindwer to produce this film. This documentary tells the touching story of the ill-fated couple and many of the wedding guests. Only a handful survived the war, one of whom was an 8-year old boy who attended the wedding with his parents. He relates his feelings on seeing them and the others again after so many years.