World War II

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  • Photographer

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    In 1987, in a Viennese antique shop, hundreds of color slides from World War II were found. It turned out they had been made in the Lodz Ghetto by the Ghetto's chief accountant Genewein. The colorful world in the slides is set against vivid recollections of Arnold Mostowicz - a man who was a Jewi...

  • Birth of a Conflict

    1 season

    Take an unprecedented dive into the genesis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the groundbreaking three-part documentary series BIRTH OF A CONFLICT, streaming now on ChaiFlicks.

    The series reveals a perspective that has been repeatedly overlooked—the British Imperialist point of view and th...

  • The Hitler Chronicles

    1 season

    Watch the complete series now! | As never seen before, and more topical today than any other Hitler biography, THE HITLER CHRONICLES depict everyday European life between 1889 and 1945 in impressive images, many of them in color. Based on the most extensive compilation of archive material to date...

  • Free Men

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    This Cannes Film Festival favorite tells the story of an Algerian black marketeer (played by Tahar Rahim, breakout star of Academy Award-nominated film A PROPHET ) in Nazi-occupied France is arrested and agrees to spy on a local mosque, but he joins the Resistance after finding his loyalties torn...

  • Those Who Remained

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    Having survived the camps, 42-year old Aldo lives a solitary life as a doctor in Budapest. 16-year old Klara lives reluctantly with her great-aunt, holding on to hope that her father and mother will return. She meets Aldo, and soon the two of them find something in each other that has long been a...

  • My Name is Sara

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    MY NAME IS SARA tells the true life story of Sara Goralnik, a 13-year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is ...

  • Winter Journey
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    Winter Journey

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    Watch Now Exclusively on ChaiFlicks! | American radio host Martin Goldsmith never knew what happened to his parents before they escaped from Germany in 1941. Both were talented musicians, but after the Nuremberg Laws were enacted in 1935 they were only able to perform as members of the Jewish Cul...

  • Line 41

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    During the Holocaust, there was no other city in Europe where Germans, Poles and Jews lived so closely together and yet worlds apart as Lodz. Several times a day for four years, the Line 41 streetcar passed through the Lodz Ghetto, but would never stop, making the suffering of the Jewish people a...

  • Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

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    Hannah Arendt, one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, both lived through and wrote about the open wounds of modern times. Her insights about the nature of evil, origins of totalitarianism and plight of refugees sound today more relevant than ever. The deep humanistic message at...

  • Muranow

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    The Muranow neighborhood in Warsaw was once a flourishing and important Jewish center - but during World War II, the neighborhood was turned into the ”Warsaw Ghetto.” Today, thousands of Polish people live in the green and spacious Muranow neighborhood, yet its dark past keeps haunting it. Polish...

  • Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald

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    On April 11, 1945 Buchenwald was liberated. Nearly 1000 boys survived. On April 11, 2010, 65 years later, several of the surviving boys from block 66 returned to Weimar and to Buchenwald. This is their story.

    “This amazingly impressive film gives a really different take on a Holocaust movie.” -...

  • There and Here

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    This is the story of 3 ex-pilots and a navigator, all in their eighties, who in their youth embodied the perfect image of the "model Israeli Tsabar". The four decide to come clean about their true identities as holocaust survivors and venture out on a journey throughout their lost childhoods, the...

  • Plan A

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    Michael Aloni (Shtisel), August Diehl (A Hidden Life, Inglourious Basterds) and Sylvia Hoeks (Blade Runner 2049) star in the thrilling English-language drama PLAN A, based on the incredible true story of the "Avengers“ - a group of Jewish vigilantes, men and women, who after surviving the Holocau...

  • Bye Bye Germany

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    Frankfurt, 1946. David Bermann (Moritz Bleibtreu, "Run Lola Run") and his Jewish friends have escaped the Nazi regime and are now dreaming of leaving for America. But how will they get the money in these tough post-war times? The smooth-talking businessman focuses on what the Germans now need mos...

  • They Survived Together

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    A 2022 Emmy winner for Best Historical Documentary, this is the true story of the Neiger family's miraculous escape from certain death by the Nazis during World War II. A story of endurance, unity and hope.

    Directed by John Rokosny
    United States, 2021
    Documentary
    English
    73 minutes

  • A Bag of Marbles

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    Patrick Bruel (Sabrina, Paris-Manhattan) stars in this heartwarming adaptation of Joseph Joffo’s enduring memoir which tells the story of the Nazi occupation through the eyes of two young Jewish brothers in German occupied France who, with a mind-boggling mix of mischievousness, courage and inge...

  • Chasing Portraits

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    Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943) was a prolific Warsaw-based artist who painted scenes of the Polish-Jewish community until he was murdered at Majdanek concentration camp. For more than a decade his great-granddaughter Elizabeth searched for his missing art, with remarkable and unexpected success. Spann...

  • Against All Odds: Surviving the Holocaust

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    Filmmakers Terri and Paul Bachow tell the stories of four survivors who lived outside of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. They describe how lucky you had to be to survive. To survive you had to be lucky at least ten times, although often what turns out to have been lucky was often a ...

  • Labyrinth of Peace

    1 season

    Watch the Complete Series Now Exclusively on ChaiFlicks! | Inspired by real events, LABYRINTH OF PEACE reveals the tensions, corruption, and intrigue that unfolded in hitherto-neutral Switzerland in the aftermath of World War II. Through the story of one family of Swiss industrial magnates, LABY...

  • The Duchess of Warsaw

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    A stirring tale set in a fantastical Paris where a concentration camp survivor reveals her past to her grandson. Valentin, a painter struggling to discover love and beauty, is reunited with his grandmother Nina. As they wander together through the capital, Nina unravels the past to her grandson, ...

  • Germans and Jews

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    Germany is one of the most democratic societies in the world, and has the fastest growing Jewish community in Europe. This never could have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories, the film explores the country's transformation from silence about the Holocaust to facing it head on.

    Direc...

  • Why We March

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    Follow three Holocaust survivors on a six-day trip across Poland as they re-visit the death camps they were imprisoned in. From the killing field of Majdanek to the infamous Auschwitz camp, the survivors tell their stories and share their lives with the younger generation in order to make sure hi...

  • Is Anybody Listening?

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    Psychologist and author Paula J. Caplan grew up listening to - but not remembering - stories her beloved father, Jerome A. Caplan, told annually about being Captain of an all-Black battery in The Battle of the Bulge. Bewildered at her inability to remember those stories, she met with and listen t...

  • Hanna's Sleeping Dogs

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    Starring legendary German actress Hannelore Elsner ("To Life")! | There‘s a very good reason why you should let sleeping dogs lie, as 9-year-old Johanna discovers. Growing up a good Catholic girl in the provincial Austrian town of Wels in the late 1960s, she learns from her grandmother her family...