Producers: Willy Lindwer

The dramatic story of Mr. Abraham Ascher and Professor David Cohen, the leaders of the Jewish community of Amsterdam. They became the heads of the Jewish Council in 1941 and also an instrument in the hands of the Nazis and their murderous policy in deporting the Dutch Jews. It is the story of the two men who were given the responsibility for running the Jewish Council of Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation. They set up a government – a state within a state – to handle all Jewish affairs, including supplying the Nazis with lists of people to be transported to the concentration camps. One of the most dramatic stories of the Holocaust.

Stuart Eizenstat, Undersecretary of State of the United States during the Clinton administration, initiated a wide-ranging investigation into the role of the neutral countries during the Second World War. His first ‘Eizenstat Report’, that was published in May 1997 accused Switzerland of having assisted in prolonging the war by its serving as a banker for the Nazi regime. This report caused worldwide upheaval on the role of Switzerland as a neutral country. This film tells the spectacular story of the Nazi Gold Reports.

In this documentary, the sole surviving member of the Jewish High Command looks back on the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, a unique event in Jewish as well as non-Jewish history: 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. Dr. Marek Edelman, who never left Poland, is now a cardiologist in Lodz where in the 1980s he played a leading role in the then underground trade union Solidarity. Filmed and interviewed on location in Warsaw and Lodz, Marek Edelman gives an insider’s account of the dramatic events that unfolded in 1943. The documentary contains unique historical footage.

The first feature-length documentary about Israel’s Prime Minister, murdered in 1995. His widow, Leah Rabin, tells of war and peace, duty and family, the life of Yitzhak Rabin and the story of Israel. The film was shot on location in the Middle East and the United States, and includes unique archival material. It is an intimate portrait of an impressive leader, profiled by the people who knew him best, those who loved him and those who fought him, with exclusive appearances by Leah Rabin, Yasser Arafat, Simon Peres, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, General Uzi Narkis and many others.

This documentary tells the fascinating story of Hasidism and Jewish mysticism in Israel. Unique film footage of a mystical world unknown to most of us is shown in “D’vekut”. Through very special personal contacts the filmmaker succeeded, for the first time ever, to film Israel’s Hasidic communities. Today’s Hasidic world is among the fastest growing mystical societies in the world.

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.

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.