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Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Narrates the remarkable journey of Hannah Senesh, a young Hungarian poet and diarist, paratrooper and resistance fighter. Told through Hannah's letters, diaries, poems, and the recollections of those who knew her, the film traces Hannah's life from childhood in Palestine to her daring WWII mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary.
4) In darkness
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
6) Uprising
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the Germans decreed that all 350,000 Warsaw Jews be forcibly detained in the area known as the "Warsaw Ghetto". In fear for their lives, the Polish Jews from the Jewish Fighting Organization (JFO) banded together to fight against this oppressive force. When the German troops march into the Ghetto, they are surprised and repulsed by the JFO fighters. The resisters may not be able to achieve victory, but...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the final months of World War II in Hungary, a young man sets out to find his displaced family by using a stolen Nazi uniform to pose as an officer; he undertakes extraordinary measures to save his family and thousands of lives from the enemy.
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Describes the actions of Tuvia, Asael, and Zus Bielski during World War II. The three brothers, living in the Soviet Republic of Belorussia, built an elaborate village for rescued Jews. The forest haven included a bakery, communal bath, synagogue, and even a theater company. Although they mounted guerrilla attacks against the enemy, their priority was saving their people, eventually rescuing 1,200 men, women and children.
9) Rosenstrasse
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Deutsch
Description
After the death of her father, Hannah becomes concerned with the strange behavior of her mother. Traveling to Berlin to interview a woman who knew her mother as a child, Hannah hears the story of a week in 1943 when the Aryan wives of Jewish men held captive in a building on Rosenstrasse protested in the name of love, and realizes how little she knew of her mother's troubled childhood.
10) In darkness
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
11) Defiance
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rescue efforts of Jewish partisans led by the Bielski Brothers, who fought against the Nazis in the on the Polish-Russian border.
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