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Over eight decades after Yitzhak witnessed as a boy the Farhud, the anti-Jewish riots in Iraq, he has presented an ancient Torah scroll saved from the riots to the synagogue at Havat Yair in Samaria, where his grandchildren live today. Read more
Nov-21 7:30pm SBS World Movies: The Last Vermeer
While Joseph Piller, a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren was selling Dutch art to Hermann Goring and other Nazis. Read more
Apr-25 11:45pm SBS-TV: Auschwitz – One Day
This documentary tells the story of a typical day in 1944 in the ‘death factory’ at Auschwitz from the viewpoint of victims – but it also allows insights into the mindset of the perpetrators. Read more
