An exhibition presenting works by leading Israeli artists - painters, photographers and quilters
Curator: Rachel Ziv

Opening on Tuesday, 4th December 2012, at 18:30

As part of this exhibition there will be a screening of two documentary films

On 4th December at 19:00 in Lecture Room - II, Annexe
Six Million and One
(Shisha Milyon Ve-echad)
(93 min; 2011; dvd; English subtitles)
Directors: David Fisher & Irit Shimrat

The filmmaker David Fisher and his two brothers and sister travel to Austria and the USA, retracing the steps of their father Joseph Fisher, a Holocaust survivor whose memoir was discovered only after his death. His children refused to confront its contents, except for David, for whom it became a compass for a long journey

On 5th December at 18:30 in Lecture Room - II, Annexe
A Film Unfinished
(Shtikat Haarchion)
(88 min; 2010; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Yael Hersonki

Recipient of the NBR Award for Top Five Documentaries, National Board of Review, USA 2010; The Jewish Experience Award, Forum for the Preservation of Audio-Visual Memory, Jerusalem Film Festival 2010; and World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award, Sundance Film Festival 2010

At the end of World War II, 60 minutes of raw film was discovered sitting undisturbed in an East German archive. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply "Das Ghetto", this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel, inclusive of multiple takes and cameraman staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage