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From Akko to Tel Aviv
This series shows the most spectacular sites in Israel and tells about its fascinating history. There are few countries in the world where history, culture, archeology, and religion are as up for grabs as in Israel. The country is the birthplace of the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. For 5000 years the country exercised a magical attraction on a multitude of rulers and peoples, Israelites, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Christians, Arabs, Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottomans, British. And quite apart from the various ethnic groups, such as Christian and Muslim Arabs, Jews, Druze, and Bedouin and many pilgrims with their diverse religious backgrounds who visited this region for centuries. They all left their visible traces. The numerous, sometimes beautiful relics and special places, to which so many people – to this day – are attracted, is the basis for this interesting series of documentaries. The Holy Land has a magnetic attraction for many and it is the wide palette of cultures that make up a fascinating picture: Magical Israel.

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.