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Liberation Shoah Stories - Liberation is typically characterized by the arrival of Allied forces. Interviewees tell of liberation from concentration camps, or during death marches, or may describe liberation upon emergence from hiding. Esther Bem (survivor) talks about her lack of awareness of wartime political events while hiding in Italy. She describes her liberation by members of the Jewish Brigade. Esther speaks of her struggle with identity which ensued after liberation from living in...
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"Pushcarts and Plantations: Jewish Life in Louisiana" - One-Hour Television Documentary (Clip is 168 Seconds). This program explores the 300-year history of Louisiana Jewry. From its beginnings in the 17th century to its emergence into the 21st, this community has been an important part of the American Jewish experience. It has also developed a unique culture amid the Cajun and Creole influences of the state. In the early 1700s, Sephardic traders journeyed up from the Caribbean and became...
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Free adaptation based on kafka's "Metamorphosis", an allegory about Kafka's life, with Franz playing the main character. The action happens at Praga invaded by Germans, at home of a Jewish family (maybe the Kafka's). Novel's room of G. Samsa is replaced by an enormous library. Directed by Carlos Atanes in 1993.
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During the WWII battle of Stalingrad, two snipers, a Russian (Law), and a German (Harris), are locked in a battle of wills and marksmenship, while the Russian is boosted to the status of hero by a political official (Fiennes). In the winter of 1942, the German and Russian Armies meet in the great Battle of the Stalingrad, one of the most vicious engagements of the Second World War. Enter into this horror a young Russian soldier, formerly a peasant boy with an extraordinary ability to...
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ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR - FULL-LENGTH MOVIE (119 MINUTES) - During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had been spared from the ovens, knew that they were on borrowed time and that their only hope was to escape - the only question was how to do it. However, because the Germans would kill an equal...
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