Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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The Making of The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazi's for saving the lives of nearly 2,000 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto.

Director : Jan Parkinson

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 15

Language : English

The City without Jews

In Austria the Christian Social Party comes to power, and the new Chancellor passes a law forcing all Jews to emigrate. But after a short time a sober reality sets in: cultural life becomes impoverished, the economy declines, cafes are converted into beer halls, inflation and unemployment run wild...

Director : Hans Karl Breslauer

Production Year : 1924

Duration : 80

Language : Silent Film

You Will Never Understand This

My movie is about three women who belong to what is historically referred to as the generation of perpetrators and victims. With their different stories of life, different narrations and memories they all belong to one family, my family.

Director : Anja Salomonowitz

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 52

Language : German

David

An intimate and quietly strong story of a Jewish boy coming of age in Nazi Germany as events uproot and disband his family. As the Nazis round up and deport Jews, David runs from hideout to hideout and ultimately manages to escape to Palestine with the help of an anti-Nazi German. It is 1940 and David may well be the final Jew to escape from the Third Reich. He departs as one who confronted evil, and he emerges with his spirit intact.

Director : Peter Lilienthal

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 125

Language : German

Kryptonim Pożoga - Dramat Wołyński (1939-1945)

סרט תיעודי. סרט תיעודי זה מתאר את האירועים בווהלין (Wołyn, Volhynia) בזמן מלחמת עולם השנייה ומתרכז בגורלה של האוכלוסייה הפולנית בחבל זה.

Director : Wincenty Ronisz

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 87

Language : Polish

Faith, The story of Jack Aldewereld

A short documentary. Jack Aldewereld was born as a Jewish boy during World War II. When he was six months old, he had to go into hiding. He ended up in Brunssum, in Limburg: a mining town where more than 250 Jewish children were rescued during the war. The movie takes you goes to the town together with Chief Rabbi Jacobs to investigate Brunssum's resistance history. What is the story of Jack Aldewereld? How did he discover his real identity? And what can young people today learn from his story?

Director : Alexander Blom, Paola Van Oordt, Sara Van Oordt

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 21

Language : Dutch, English

Landscapes of Resistance

A documentary biograghic movie. Sonja Vujanovic was one of the first women who joined the partisan resistance movement in Yugoslavia. She was inspired by the revolutionary books she received from a classmate in high school, she joined the communist and antifascist organization in the late 1930s and in 1941 became a partisan fighter in German-occupied Serbia. She was captured, tortured and after several other prisons and concentration camps taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. There she became a member of the resistance and a leader of its combat unit. Landscapes of her revolutionary life as they exist today , the...

Director : Marta Popivoda

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 95

Language : Serbian-Croatian

The Last Seder in the Warsaw Ghetto

A documentary film. 1943, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto organized the largest Jewish armed resistance against the Nazis. It was April 19th, the first night of Pesach. As the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was unfolding, Jews gathered for a Seder. For most of them, it would be their last.

Production Year : 2019

The Crossing

A feature film. Ten year old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War. Just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda and Otto’s parents are arrested, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two Jewish children, Sarah and Daniel, hidden in a secret cupboard in their basement at home. It is now up to Gerda and Otto to finish what their parents started: To help Sarah and Daniel flee from the Nazis, cross the border to neutral Sweden and reunite them with their parents. The is a film about the confidence, uncompromising...

Director : Johanne Helgeland

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 96

Language : Norwegian

You Won't Get Me!

A documentary movie. A historical road movie of Manfred Weil. He tells about Oyssey during the time of shoah. Weil used tricks outmaneuver all the Nazi bureaucracy and their collaborators in order to flee concentration camps and to survive. After the war, Weil became a wonderful artist who most of the time focused with his paintings on beautiful subjects - above all women. Manfred Weil survived every kind of distress until he died of a natural death aged nearly 95. The film was shown at stranger than fiction 2016, Germany. .

Director : Werner Muller

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 119

Language : German

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