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The Road to Krasnostav
Vanished world
Operation Wedding
Stateless
Mamaliga Blues
Unknown
Holocaust
Holocaust
Last Summer of Childhood
Ladispoli 1989
Soshne Forest Massacre
The Last Chapter
The Road to Krasnostav
"The Road to Krasnostav"
In May 2015 the descendants of Jews from Krasnostav went on a mission to Ukraine in search of their family history. The trail brought the group to the war memorials, mass graves and Jewish cemeteries in and around Krasnostav, Izyaslav, Berezdov, Shepetovka, Slavuta, and Koretz. Those monuments and graves, surrounded by picturesque landscapes, are the only remnant of the former Jewish settlements.
Personal stories captured in the film, reminiscences of eyewitnesses who were children at the start of the war, and tales that post-war children heard from their parents illustrate the circumstances of those tragic events... Learn more
Personal stories captured in the film, reminiscences of eyewitnesses who were children at the start of the war, and tales that post-war children heard from their parents illustrate the circumstances of those tragic events... Learn more
Vanished world
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Bessarabia. Home of 270,000 Jews in year 1930.
Moldova. Home of 15,000 Jews today How many cemeteries vanished? How the local people can maintenance it? How we can help? |
Operation Wedding
"Operation Wedding"
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"Operation Wedding" is not a film about planning a wedding, it is about a daring escape attempt from the USSR by a group of Soviet Jews who were trapped behind the "Iron Curtain".
It started as a fantasy, Operation Wedding: Under the disguise of a trip to a local family wedding, a group of 16 young dissidents would buy every ticket on a small 12-seater plane, so there would be no passengers but them, no innocents in harm’s way. |
The group’s pilot would take over the controls and fly the 16 runaways into the sky, over the Soviet border, on to Sweden, bound for Israel. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag and two were sentenced to death; they never got on a plane. ... Learn more
Stateless
"Stateless"
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Events in Stateless take place during the politically charged climate of the late 1980’s. At that time the USSR was home to the largest population of Jews in Europe. Under pressure from various political sources, including that of U.S. Jewry, the Soviet government opened the borders and allowed its Jewish population to leave the country. This time the migrants would have the freedom to choose their destination, but those who hoped to make the United States their home now had to prove “a reasonable fear of persecution.” Learn more
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Mamaliga Blues
"Mamaliga Blues"
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In 1931, Abram and Rachel Tolpolar emigrated from Moldova to southern Brazil. Seventy seven years later, their only child, Mauro Tolpolar, made the trip back. Accompanied by his two kids, who never knew their grandparents, Mauro visited his parents birthplace and also found clues to an unrevealed past. Having as a starting point only one remaining photograph of a lost grave, the Tolpolars drove through ancient villages, walked in the bushes of abandoned cemeteries and met locals, looking for what happened to their relatives who disappeared during the Holocaust.. Watch this documentary
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Unknown
Holocaust
Holocaust
The Holocaust on Soviet territory was largely unknown during the first decades after the war. There was an ideological and political reasons for government don't recognize the unique fate of Jewish people. Boris Maftsir's Israeli documentary project opens the eyes what happened with Jewish people on Soviet Union territories under German occupation in 1941-1945, how people combat, survived or killed there.
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Last Summer of Childhood
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The documentary film "Last Summer of Childhood" was broadcasted on Uzbek TV channels. The heroes of this film are the Jewish children, who were evacuated from Ukrainian and Belarusian territories in year 1941 and were saved from an imminent death. In the film, they remember how Uzbek people shared their last piece of bread with the refugees, but did not send any children to an orphanage center. Watch documentary
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Ladispoli 1989
Soshne Forest Massacre
On October 25, 2018 two hundred people from Izyaslav, Khmelnytskyi, Slavuta, Shepetivka, Rovno, Vinnitsa, Belaya Tserkov , Kyiv and New York gathered in Soshne forest near Izyaslav .....
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The Last Chapter
“The Last Chapter” is a documentary that presents a history of the Jewish community in Izyaslav, a small shtetl (town) in the northwestern area of Ukraine. The Jews started settling there in the 16th century, when Ukraine was still a part of Poland. In the 19th century, the 6000 Jews that lived there comprised half the population of the town. They were religious people who followed Jewish customs and worshipped at one of the 14 synagogues that were located in town.
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