Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Documentary on the triumph and tragedy of Bulgaria’s response to the “Final Solution” during World War II, 1940-1943

Director : Ed Gaffney

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 90

Language : Bulgarian, English, Ladino

Documentary film showing the struggle in Bulgaria under the Nazi occupation. At the end of WW2 there were 49,172 Jews. At the start of the war there were 48,565 Jews. Bulgaria was the only country in Hitler's Europe that had more Jews at the end of the war than at the beginning. The film explains how this happened. The flood of support against the Nuremberg laws, the Bulgarians who fought against the rulers, Parliament preventing sending the Jews to their deaths, the Church protecting the lives of Jews. Ultimately it was the people who caused the king of Bulgaria to change his policy towards the Jews. ...

Director : Nitsan Aviram

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 66

Language : English, Hebrew

The Optimists

Documentary film dealing with the rescue of Bulgarian Jews in the Second World War, based on sixteen years of research conducted by the director of the film, Jacky Comforty. He was born in Israel in the 1950s and is the son of Bulgarian exiles. Comforty’s research includes individual testimonies describing the events, a collection of documents from archives in Bulgaria, Israel and other countries and a collection of archival footage and photographs. The result is a film showing how the time of the Holocaust produced values, loyalty, solidarity and anti-racisms leading many Bulgarians to act against the...

Director : Jacky Comforty

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 82

Language : English

Rescue - Bulgaria

Documentary film that deals with the unique case of the Jews of Bulgaria who were saved by virtue of the organization of members of parliament, public figures, heads of the church and normal civilians who exerted pressure on the government and the king to prevent the deportation of the Jews. The film includes the testimony of Rina Shaashua Hason about the events and also archival films and photographs.

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 4

Language : Hebrew

Saving The Jews Of Bulgaria

This documentary recreates the nation-wide campaign to save Bulgaria's Jews and it contains original footage from Bulgaria.

Director : Chaim Oliver

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 56

Language : English

The Death Transport Didn't Leave

This documentry film mixes contemporary interviews with photographs and footages from the Holocaust. Man singing with guitar in front of enlarged photo of Concentration Camp. Footage of ovens, little girl in stripes showing her number. Bodies, 1940-41. Cattle cars. Hitler meeting with Bulgarian officals. Assorted newspapers, letters, documents, photographs of important people. Hitler shaking hands. Eichman trial in Jerusalem intercut with footage of transports.

Director : שמעון בן נון

Production Year : 1975

Duration : 40

Language : Russian