Films – Шоа – образовательный центр

«The Guardians of Remembrance»

Boris Maftsir — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:41:33 +0000

Guardians of Remembrance – are Jewish and non-Jewish witnesses.

Almost half of the 6 million Jews killed in the horrors of Holocaust were soviet Jews.

For ideologocal and political reasons Soviet Union didn’t recognize the uniqueness of the Holocaust tragedy.

They did not allow documentation, research and commemoration. It is as if the Holocaust of the Soviet Jews did not occur, it was erased from collective memory.

It was only after the dissolution of the Soviet Union that the memories of almost 2.7 million of its Jews, murdered between 1941-1945, could be restored. For the first time, here is their story.

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«Gotenland»

Boris Maftsir — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:40:16 +0000

The film calls on the uniqueness of the tragedy of the destruction of the Crimean Jews and of Jewish kolkhozim – along with the other Jewish communities of the Crimea.

Almost half of the 6 million Jews killed in the horrors of Holocaust were soviet Jews.

For ideologocal and political reasons Soviet Union didn’t recognize the uniqueness of the Holocaust tragedy.

They did not allow documentation, research and commemoration. It is as if the Holocaust of the Soviet Jews did not occur, it was erased from collective memory.

It was only after the dissolution of the Soviet Union that the memories of almost 2.7 million of its Jews, murdered between 1941-1945, could be restored. For the first time, here is their story.

Project website

«The Eastern Front»

Boris Maftsir — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:37:10 +0000

The film features five stories from various parts of Russia where painful memories of the “Unknown Holocaust” are revealed.

Almost half of the 6 million Jews killed in the horrors of Holocaust were soviet Jews.

For ideologocal and political reasons Soviet Union didn’t recognize the uniqueness of the Holocaust tragedy.

They did not allow documentation, research and commemoration. It is as if the Holocaust of the Soviet Jews did not occur, it was erased from collective memory.

It was only after the dissolution of the Soviet Union that the memories of almost 2.7 million of its Jews, murdered between 1941-1945, could be restored. For the first time, here is their story.

Project website

«Until the last step»

Boris Maftsir — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:31:05 +0000

By the end of the winter of 1941 – 42, almost all the killings of Jews in eastern Belarus had already been completed. Some ghettos still remain in the western part.

Almost half of the 6 million Jews killed in the horrors of Holocaust were soviet Jews.

For ideologocal and political reasons Soviet Union didn’t recognize the uniqueness of the Holocaust tragedy.

They did not allow documentation, research and commemoration. It is as if the Holocaust of the Soviet Jews did not occur, it was erased from collective memory.

It was only after the dissolution of the Soviet Union that the memories of almost 2.7 million of its Jews, murdered between 1941-1945, could be restored. For the first time, here is their story.

Project website

«Drawers of memory»

Boris Maftsir — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:29:34 +0000

In the sixth film of the project about Holocaust in the former Soviet Union, Boris Maftsir implores the discovery of the Holocaust memorial in Latvia.

Almost half of the 6 million Jews killed in the horrors of Holocaust were soviet Jews.

For ideologocal and political reasons Soviet Union didn’t recognize the uniqueness of the Holocaust tragedy.

They did not allow documentation, research and commemoration. It is as if the Holocaust of the Soviet Jews did not occur, it was erased from collective memory.

It was only after the dissolution of the Soviet Union that the memories of almost 2.7 million of its Jews, murdered between 1941-1945, could be restored. For the first time, here is their story.

Project website

«We allow you to die»

Boris Maftsir — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:22:49 +0000

The additional film about the Holocaust in Transnistria. The film has two stories: the “Fall of Odessa” and “We allow you to die” – about the hunger camp to death Pecora.

Almost half of the 6 million Jews killed in the horrors of Holocaust were soviet Jews.

For ideologocal and political reasons Soviet Union didn’t recognize the uniqueness of the Holocaust tragedy.

They did not allow documentation, research and commemoration. It is as if the Holocaust of the Soviet Jews did not occur, it was erased from collective memory.

It was only after the dissolution of the Soviet Union that the memories of almost 2.7 million of its Jews, murdered between 1941-1945, could be restored. For the first time, here is their story.

Project website

«Beyond the Nistru»

Boris Maftsir — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:20:41 +0000

This film depicts some of the Holocaust events that took place in the first year of the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union territories occupied by Romania.

Almost half of the 6 million Jews killed in the horrors of Holocaust were soviet Jews.

For ideologocal and political reasons Soviet Union didn’t recognize the uniqueness of the Holocaust tragedy.

They did not allow documentation, research and commemoration. It is as if the Holocaust of the Soviet Jews did not occur, it was erased from collective memory.

It was only after the dissolution of the Soviet Union that the memories of almost 2.7 million of its Jews, murdered between 1941-1945, could be restored. For the first time, here is their story.

Project website

«The road to Babi Yar»

Boris Maftsir — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:16:23 +0000

“The Road to Babi Yar” traces the first hundred days of the Holocaust in Ukraine and asks how this mass extermination system evolved.

Almost half of the 6 million Jews killed in the horrors of Holocaust were soviet Jews.

For ideologocal and political reasons Soviet Union didn’t recognize the uniqueness of the Holocaust tragedy.

They did not allow documentation, research and commemoration. It is as if the Holocaust of the Soviet Jews did not occur, it was erased from collective memory.

It was only after the dissolution of the Soviet Union that the memories of almost 2.7 million of its Jews, murdered between 1941-1945, could be restored. For the first time, here is their story.

Project website