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Tiger Within: This story features the concentration camp in Auschwitz. author Schlomo in 1939. When World War II erupted
an unlikely friendship between a home- Code Name Ayalon: This docu- Wisniewski. and the Nazis occupied Denmark on
less teen and a mentary film is a story about a secret When Anne and April 9, 1940, Kauffmann declared
Holocaust sur- bullet factory built during World War Daniel become a himself to be the only true represen-
vivor, sparking II that played a critical role in the state- couple, Daniel’s tative of the free Danish people who
larger questions hood of Israel. small con turns stood in opposition to the Nazis.
of fear, for- Here We Are: Aharon has devot- into an unman- Thou Shall Not Hate: The son of
giveness, heal- ed his life to raising his son Uri. Uri is ageable web of a Holocaust survivor, a surgeon, who
ing and world autistic, and as a young adult is facing white lies. Will lives in Trieste, Italy, begins to doubt
peace, starring moving to a specialized home for care. Anne love Dan- his actions in refusing to help a victim
multiple Emmy While on their way to the institution, iel when she learns his secret? of a traffic accident that he encountered
Award-winning Aharon decides to run away with his Neighbors: With a fine sense of on his way home from work.
actor Ed Asner. son, knowing that Uri is not ready for humor and satire, this poignant film Upheaval: Menachem Begin was
Greener Pastures: When a man is the separation. Or is it Aharon who is relays the story of a childhood, which, a proud pillar in the State of Israel.
admitted to a nurs- not ready? between dictatorship and dark drama, Jailed in a Soviet gulag for pre-war
ing home against Into the Darkness: In Denmark, is sprinkled with wonderful, light mo- Zionist activities
his will, he must on April 9, 1940, a Danish industri- ments. How much friendship, love and and scarred by loss
find a way to return alist, portrayed by Jesper Christensen solidarity are possible in times of re- in the Holocaust,
to his old house. of James Bond fame, cooperates and pression and despotism? he founded the
When love, canna- profits from the German occupation Persian Lesson: In 1942, Giles, a right-wing Likud
bis and crime enter of Denmark. Family members, mean- young Belgian man, is arrested by the party. Today, Be-
the picture, will he while, find themselves on opposite SS along with other Jews and is sent gin is remembered
be willing to risk it sides of the conflict. to a concentration camp in Germany. as among Israel’s
all? Love & Mazel Tov: At a party, Having narrowly escaped death by most democratic
Betrayed: This film follows the Daniel pretends to be Jewish to im- claiming to be half-Persian, this young prime ministers for defending Jewish
Jewish Braude family’s experiences in press Anne, a pretty bookstore owner Jewish man, who does not speak a immigration and signing the histor-
Norway when the Jews are arrested and who specializes in Jewish literature, word of Persian, is spared so he can ic peace accord with Egypt. This film
deported from the camp Berg, on the volunteers at a Jewish home for the el- teach Persian to the officer in charge offers nuanced insights into this man,
ship Donau, and on to extermination at derly, and is a close friend of Jewish of the camp’s kitchen. He must fabri- born into war, but who never ceded the
cate an entire language without rais- hope for peace.
ing suspicion. Will he make a mistake Wet Dog: This film is the story of
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