Grade levels: Adult

Eleven million European Jews were sentenced to death on January 20, 1942, at a lavish villa in Berlin. Fifteen high-ranking Nazi officers were invited there by Reinhardt Heydrich to discuss the Final Solution. The film reveals rare archival film and taped interviews with many famous Holocaust historians to describe the events at this infamous meeting.

Filmmaker Willy Lindwer traveled with his father Berl Nuchim and his daughter Michal to Galicia (now Poland & Ukraine) to retrace the route his father had taken six decades earlier, escaping from he Nazis and to see how the area and its inhabitants had changed. This film contains unique historic footage of pre-war life in the shtetls.

The five surviving members of the Jewish High Command tell in details the gripping story of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, a unique event in Jewish as well as non-Jewish history. For the first time, the Jews took up arms against the Nazis. In 1943 the remaining 50,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto realized that there was no hope that any of them would survive the Holocaust. Filmed and interviewed on location in Warsaw, the survivors give an insider’s account of the dramatic events that unfold in 1943, right in the heart of the Polish capital.

A documentary about Jewish war orphans who were raised by Christian families. The film includes the gripping story of Halinka, a baby born in the Warsaw Ghetto whose parents threw her over the Ghetto wall where she was caught by a Polish policeman, and other remarkable stories of hidden children.

The first documentary about the life and achievements of Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem for 28 years (1965 – 1993). Kollek tells his fascinating life story – from his youth in Vienna to his active involvement in the creation and development of the State of Israel, especially the establishment of close ties with the US. The documentary profiles a unique man, whose passion and determination made Jerusalem what it is today.

Anne Frank’s surviving friends tell the horrifying story that begins where her famous diary leaves off, and for the first time the concentration camp experiences of Anne and her family are recounted. Among the eyewitnesses is Anne Frank’s closest friend, Hannah Pick, identified as ‘Lies Goosens’ in Anne’s diary. She was filmed at several locations where she had been with Anne, including the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.