Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Documentary about Kazimierz Piechowski - the organizer of the most daring escape from Auschwitz. For belonging to the Army was also imprisoned by the authorities after the war. Story of an ordinary man who became the victim of two totalitarian systems: Nazism and communism.

Director : Marek Tomasz Pawłowski

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 56

Language : Polish

The Raids of the Summer of 1942 in the free zone

This film is about a little known aspect of the deportation of Jews from France. It explains how, in August 1942, 11 000 men, women, children, Jews who had fled to the south of France entirely under the authority of the Vichy regime, were arrested by police and gendarmes in the French term fully prepared to raids by French officials. Based on the story of survivors, supported by the analysis of eminent historians, this documentary reconstructs the details of this crime. It was supported by the FMS.

Director : Antoine Casubolo Ferro

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 52

Language : French

La obra de teatro "Juicio a Dios"- de: Elie Wiesel

הצגת תיאטרון "המשפט של אלוהים", שהוצגה במקסיקו. האירוע מתרחש במחנה הריכוז אושוויץ במלחמת העולם השנייה. האסירים היהודים מעמידים את אלוהים לדין על נטישתו את העם היהודי, כאשר השאלה הנידונה במהלך המשפט היא האם אלוהים שבר את הברית עם העם היהודי, בכך שאפשר לנאצים לבצע רצח עם.

Director : David Chernovetzky Holttz

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 80

Language : Spanish

To Auschwitz and Back: The Joe Engel Story

A documentary. Born in Zakroczym, in Poland, Holocaust Survivor Joe Engel was taken by the Nazi's at 14 and at 14 and never saw his parents again. Now 90 tears old, Joe is the embodiment of living history and spends his retirement years ensuring the Holocaust is never forgotten. From the overwhelming despair of the Warsaw Gehtto, to the shroud of unceasing death and suffering that was Birkenau and Auswitz, to his escape from a Death Train at 17 and his covert work as a freedom fighter, Joe personally takes us on his vivid journey to hell and back. This is a story of faith, renewal and redemption. Joe Engel ,...

Director : Ron Small

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 48

Language : English