Remembering: The Maurits Kiek Story (46 min) “Herinneren: Het verhaal van Maurits Kiek…Remembering: The Maurits Kiek Story” presents one man’s courage to return to Nazi-occupied Europe and serve as a covert MI-9 agent. His unwavering determination to stand up, in the face of overwhelming odds, and fight the perpetrators of evil was acknowledged in Den Haag, The Hague, in 2015. He is...
Susette’s Story Like so many refugee families from Nazi Germany, Rod Martel’s experience was typical, if that is the word you can use for the horror visited upon a generation of German Jews. Most of his relatives were murdered, but his parents escaped to start a normal life in the United States. His fraternal grandparents fled to...
Violin The world of the film forms around a unique musical instrument and its incredible journey, that involved witnessing all the horrors of the war. It opens in a violin shop, where at the beginning of the 20 century an instrument was created as a present for a Jewish boy. It ends many years later by...
Witnesses The film tells about the history of the Holocaust through the stories of its unwitting witnesses… Through the history of a pair of women’s shoes, which begins in the shop’s show-window and ends in the show-window of Auschwitz.Through the history of the German Shepherd puppy, which turns into a killer. Through the history of the...
Shoes The film unfolds during 30-40-s of last century and follows a story of a pair of women’s shoes – from a store’s window to the common grave at the Auschwitz concentration camp. There are no dialogues in the film and no faces are shown.
Brutus War and racist laws separate a German shepherd Brutus and his beloved mistress. Brutus is then taken from an animal shelter to a concentration camp to be a watchdog, and after being trained and manipulated this harmless pet gets turned into a ruthless killer dog.
Kaddish The testament of a former concentration camp prisoner confronts and turns the lives of two young people from different worlds around, shedding light on the tragic history of their family.
Wolbrom: My Father’s Hometown in Poland The director’s account of her discovery of the hometown in Poland her father fled to escape Nazi persecution and annexation during the Holocaust. In 2005, the director and her husband took an emotionally wrenching journey back to her father’s hometown of Wolbrom to capture eyewitness accounts of the removal and extermination of the town’s Jewish...
A Blood Artist A Blood Artist is a short documentary about Axel Stocks (1946-2016), who was born to a Jewish woman in a displaced persons camp immediately after the Second World War. Her husband, a Jew, and her whole family,had already been exterminated. In order to survive, she was forced to have sex with the Nazis. After the...