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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.

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