Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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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

The Birdcatcher

A thriller. A Jewish girl Esther is forced to conceal her identity as a boy on a Nazi-Norwegian farm. Plotting her escape to Sweden, her daily challenge to keep her true identity a secret, leads to a series of choices and consequences. On her attempt to flee the Nazi round-up in Norway, Esther finds herself alone, on an occupied farm forced to conceal her identity; leading to a series of choices and consequences which shift the paths of those around her. This story uncovers a hidden slice of history that grips at the heart and inspires us all at the deepest level. Dreaming of Hollywood stardom from her...

Director : Ross Clarke

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 100

The Jewish community of Arctic Tromsø- The Story of Zemach Resnick

סרט תיעודי קצר מתוך סידרת העדויות "Da byen ble stille aka The Town went Quiet" על המשפחות היהודיות שחיו בעיר טרומסו שבצפון נורבגיה ערב מלחמת העולם השנייה. הסרט מביא את סיפורו של צמח רזניק/Zemach Resnick. צמח נולד בקובנו, בשנת 1898 .ואחר כך היגר לנורבגיה. הוא נרצח בשנת 1943. שמו חקוק על מצבת הנספים בטרומסו.

Director : Gil Orr Urtreger

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 7

Language : Norwegian

The Jewish community of Arctic Tromsø- The Goldmann Family

סרט תיעודי קצר מתוך סידרת העדויות "Da byen ble stille aka The Town went Quiet" על המשפחות היהודיות שחיו בעיר טרומסו שבצפון נורבגיה ערב מלחמת העולם השנייה. הסרט מביא את סיפורה של משפחת גולדמן.

Director : Gil Orr Urtreger

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 6

Language : Norwegian

Die strabenbahn nach Auschwitz D'Oslo a Auschwitz The Tram to Auschwitz

A doumentary by Samuel Steinmann is the last living survivor of the Norwegian Jews who were deported to Auschwitz in the Fall of 1942. In The Tram To Auschwitz, Sammy makes that journey again, and the film follows him, merging the present with the past, and his account with the latest historical research.

Director : Elsa Kvamme

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 66

Language : Norwegian

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2008 - Ester Samuel-Cahn

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2008 "Holocaust Survivors in Israel: 60 Years Since the Establishment of the State". Torchlighter Ester Samuel-Cahn. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

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