Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2002 - Esther Zamri

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2002. Torchlighter Esther Zamri. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2002 - Kalman Perk

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2002. Torchlighter Kalman Perk. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

But Who Could I Pray For? - The Story of Avraham Aviel

Avraham Aviel (Lipkonsky), born in 1929 in Dowgalishok, Poland. On 10 May 1942, Aviel and his family were taken together with the Jews of Radun (the village of the Rabbinic leader, the Chafetz Chaim) and the surrounding areas to be murdered in killing pits. His mother and brother Yekutiel (Koshka) were among those executed. Avraham and his brother Pinchas managed to escape. To Aviel’s great sorrow, Pinchas, who had survived the mass murder, was killed before his eyes while hiding in the Dowgalishok area. Avraham and his father found refuge with a Polish farmer, before he joined the partisans in 1943. That...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 58

Language : Hebrew

Forgotten Transports to Poland

Documentary about the lesser known transports of the Czechoslovakian Jews to the concentration camps in Poland. The testimonies of the survivors are complemented by the unique archive material.

Director : Lukáš Přibyl

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 90

Language : Czech, English

Exiled

Based on Anatoly Dimarov’s novella "Simyon Reznik", this feature film tells a story taking place in the summer of 1941. A poor Jewish wagon slowly moves away from Kolomya, occupied by the fascists, to the yet carefree Poltava. The handsome portly Simon, his incomparable beloved wife Basia, their red-haired children born in love, will find shelter in a Ukrainian village on the banks of the quiet Khorol, they will be saved from the annihilation that awaits them all…

Director : Vladimir Savelyev

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 75

Language : German

Saviours in the Night

Unter Bauern recounts how some courageous farmers in the Muensterland region gave refuge to Marga Spiegel’s husband Menne, herself and her daughter under false names in their farmhouse between 1943 and 1945. The farmers succeeded in achieving the seemingly impossible: protecting the whole family for two years and saving them from deportation to the death camps without themselves having to pay with their own lives or being punished in other ways by the German government in those days

Director : Ludi Boeken

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 97

Language : French, German

מזל - סיפורו של ישראל (ג'ורג') קליינמן

סרט אנימציה קצר. מתוך הסדרה "הסיפור שלנו - רוח האדם בשואה" המספרים את סיפורם של ניצולי שואה.

Director : ענת קוסטי

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 4

Language : Hebrew

Come what May

A feature film. German communist flees to Northern France with his son. German troops follow May 1940. The son flees with the village towards Dieppe at the English Channel, as does the separated dad, joined by a Scottish officer.

Director : Christian Carion

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 114

Language : French, German

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2000 - Felix Zandman

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2000. Torchlighter Felix Zandman. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2000 - Ze’ev (Vlodemerz) Portnoy

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2000. Torchlighter Ze’ev (Vlodemerz) Portnoy. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

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