Eastern Europe

49,172

49,172 Jews in Bulgaria escaped the atrocities of the Holocaust. This is their story.

Aliyah Dada

Aliyah Dada uses the avant-garde style to bring the rich and tragic history of Jews in Romania to life, culminating in a new Jewish renaissance. ...

Birobidzhan

There was once an independent communist state for Jews under Stalin. What became of Birobidzhan?

A Bitter Taste of Freedom

The ultimate film about Anna Politkovksaya, Russian journalist killed in 2006.

Destination Unknown

They survived but could they be free?

The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls

Every year 30,000 Hasidim flock to Ukraine visiting their leader’s grave -- where thousands of Jews were slaughtered in 1768.

Farewell to My Country

In 1968, following student demonstrations, Poland expelled the last remaining Jews from what once was the largest Jewish settlement in the world,...

Finding Babel

Isaac Babel's writings are subversive masterpieces, challenging the ideology of the early Soviet Union, and resulting in his arrest and execution...

From Shtetl to Swing

Between 1880 and 1924, 2.5 million Jews fled persecution in Russia and Eastern Europe, kissed the shtetl goodbye and migrated to America. Turning...

Home Movie

A story of immigration, of dislocation and of secrets. 18 close family members dead..... and never mentioned.

The Last Jew from Drohobych

The story Alfred Schreyer tells is so remarkable that a lifetime is not sufficient to comprehend it. But this is the everyday, gruesome, uncanny...

Liga Terezin

It was a game against the Nazis...

Lost Town

An obsessive search to understand the Nazi-obliterated town, Trochenbrod, made famous by Jonathan Safran Foer's "Everything Is Illuminated."

The Return

How do you build your identity when your past has been stripped away?

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