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Searching for the Unknown Holocaust

The Searching for the Unknown Holocaust project is the story of the Holocaust of the Soviet Jews, a story that has been erased from the collective memory. The films will be shown throughout the coming months and accompanied by short lectures (in Heb.).

Introduction (in Heb.): Ph.D. Kiril Feferman

Gotenland

Dir.: Boris Maftsir
| 58 minutes

The Nazi regime made Crimea an inseparable part of the Third Reich named Gotenland. The new chapter of Boris Maftsir’s documentary project explores the uniqueness of the tragedy of the destruction of the Crimean community and the annihilation of the Jewish Kolkhozes. 

Introduction (in Heb.): writer Eli Amir

The Guardians of Remembrance

Dir.: Boris Maftsir
| 104 minutes

THe Holocaust of the USSR Jews remained a mystery. It was only after the dismantling of the USSR that efforts were made to document and commemorate these victims. Boris Maftsir sets out on a journey to restore the memory of a Holocaust that was all but forgotten. 

Introduction (in Heb.): Prof. Avigdor Shinan

Beyond the Nistru

Dir.: Boris Maftsir
| 96 minutes

The film depicts some Holocaust events that occurred during the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet territories controlled by Romania. It is the story of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish victims of the “Romanian” Holocaust. 

Introduction (in Heb.): Director Boris Maftsir

Until the Last Step

Dir.: Boris Maftsir
| 98 minutes

The uprisings in the ghettos and shtetls of Eastern Belarus took the Nazis by surprise. This film describes some of the events of the Holocaust in Belarus between the summer of 1942 and the destruction of the ghettos in the fall of 1943.

Introduction (in Heb.): Prof. Yair Zakovitch

We Allow You to Die

Dir.: Boris Maftsir
| 66 minutes

The film describes some of the Holocaust events that took place in the first year of the Great Patriotic War in the Romanian controlled areas of the Soviet Union, events in the city of Odessa and in Pechora concentration camp.

Introduction (in Heb.): Prof. Mordechai (Motti) Zalkin

Holocaust. The Eastern Front

Dir.: Boris Maftzir
| 95 minutes

The Holocaust in Russia, in the occupied territories farthest from Nazi Germany. The film combines five stories of the annihilation of the Jews, the struggle to acknowledge their murder as holocaust and the remarkable rescue of some of the Jews.