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1) Reckonings
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 minutes)
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, German and Jewish leaders met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people? Directed by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman, RECKONINGS is the first documentary feature to chronicle the harrowing process...
2) Spiral
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Examines the rise of anti-Semitism in present-day France.
3) In darkness
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
A sewer worker and petty thief in the Polish town of Lvov encounters a group of Jews hiding within the tunnels.
4) Run boy run
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
After a nine-year-old Jewish boy flees from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, he tries to survive in the forest and is taken in by a farmer while claiming to be a Christian war orphan.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001, c1971
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
7) Leona
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A young Jewish woman living in Mexico City struggles bewteen her love for a non-Jewish man and her traditional family's demands.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the peaceful coexistence of Muslims, Jews, and Christians in medieval Spain, revealing a culture in which literature, science, and tolerance thrived for five hundred years.
10) The pianist
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
11) The hiding place
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With the Nazi invasion of Holland, Corrie ten Boom's family joins the resistance to help save persecuted Jewish families. When they are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps themselves, they have nothing left to cling to but their faith.
Series
Criterion collection volume 969
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
Czech
Description
Follows two young Jewish men who escape a train taking them to a concentration camp as they try to survive in the rural terrain and evade capture.
13) The book thief
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To escape the horrors of World War II Germany, a young girl steals books to read and visits with the Jewish refugee hiding in her house.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
An inspiring documentary that tells the story of Marthe Cohn, a feisty young woman who joined the French Army during WWII after Hitler's rise power. After keeping silent for almost 60 years, Marthe now shares the extraordinary story of how she managed to beat the odds and fight the Nazis as a spy after her family fled to the south of France, and a sister was sent to Auschwitz.
15) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a German boy discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl during World War II, he must decide what to do with the help of his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of violinst Bronislaw Huberman and his attempts during Hitler's rise to power to relocate Jewish musicians to Palestine to form what would later become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
An American Pickle stars Seth Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling labourer who immigrates to America in 1919 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. One day, while working at his factory job, he falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. The brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present day Brooklyn, he finds that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he learns that his only...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish man travels to the Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II with only a local who speaks broken English to guide him.
Jonathan is a Jewish college student searching Europe for the one person he believes can explain his roots. Alex, a lover of all things American and unsurpassed butcher of the English language, is his Ukrainian guide. The two young men look for Augustine, a woman who might have saved Jonathan's...
20) The Golem
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 16th-century Prague, a Jewish rabbi creates a giant creature from clay, called the Golem, and using sorcery, brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
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