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Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
2) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Christina prepares her restaurant for Christmas, a DNA test reveals that she's Jewish! The discovery leads her to a new family and a new, unlikely romance over eight crazy nights.
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
During World War II an Italian Jewish man uses his vivid imagination to convince his son they're playing a game at a concentration camp in order to keep his son's spirits up.
"***1/2 Highly recommended."--Video Librarian
"A modern masterpiece."--Chicago Tribune
"Two thumbs up."--Siskel & Ebert
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Madame Rosa (1977) is an enduring classic of cross-cultural understanding. Simone Signoret (Diabolique) stars as Madam Rosa, a French-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who now runs a boarding house in Paris for the children of prostitutes. She takes a liking to Momo, an Algerian boy who she raises in the Muslim faith, a controversial decision in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But their bond...
Author
Publisher
Vermont Public Television
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 19th century, faced with growing repression, many Eastern European Jews sought freedom in North America. During that exodus, a core of immigrants from neighboring rural villages, or shtetls, in Lithuania made their way to Burlington, Vt., a bustling lumber port surrounded by a countryside that reminded them of home. 'Little Jerusalem' became a thriving, traditional Jewish community in Burlington's Old North End from the late 1800s until...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance....
8) Deli Man
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the world of the delicatessan, the creation of Jewish immigrants as a way of preserving ethnic culinary traditions in the New World. Profiles Ziggy Gruber, co-owner of Kenny & Ziggy's New York Delicatessan Restaurant in Houston and third-generation deli man, as well as other deli owners and aficionados in the U.S. and Canada.
9) Defiance
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and deciding whom to trust. They take...
10) Schindler's list
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (196 min.) : sd., b&w with color segment ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story follows the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did.
11) The pianist
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young American man, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly broken English, journeys to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
13) Keep the change
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When aspiring filmmaker David is mandated by a judge to attend a social program at the Jewish Community Center, he is sure of one thing, he doesn't belong there. But when he's assigned to visit the Brooklyn Bridge with the vivacious Sarah, sparks fly and his convictions are tested. Their budding relationship must weather Sarah's romantic past, David's judgmental mother, and their own preconceptions of what love is supposed to look like.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called 'the most powerful movie musical ever made.' Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, it captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscarʼ- nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and...
15) Free men
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Français
Formats
Description
In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes (played by break-out star, Tahar Rahim) earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim Resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates. At the Mosque, Younes...
17) In darkness
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca.144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Anne Frank, a Dutch Jew, perished along with most of her family in a concentration camp, but her hopes, dreams, and optimistic outlook has endured through the publication of her diary in 1952. Her diary conveys the precariousness of the Frank family and that of their fellow exiles, the Van Daan family and fussy dentist Mr. Dussel. They spent their time hiding from the Gestapo in a tiny Amsterdam attic.
Publisher
Distributed by Westlake Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A compelling documentary feature film about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering. In 1943, Holland is under total Nazi occupation. When the Jews are being deported, Jack, his wife Manja, and his new love, Ina, find themselves living in the same barracks in a concentration camp. When Jack's wife objects to the relationship in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters,...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001, c1971
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 [dual-sided] videodisc (179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + insert.
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.
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