Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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A feature film. During World War II, millions of Jews from all over Europe are deported and killed in German concentration camps. When the German troops invade Norway, the Norwegian Jews feel safe and protected. But anti-Semitism knows no borders and as the war escalates in Europe, the situation changes drastically. Their radios are taken away; their passports are stamped with a J. All the men men over the age of 15 are arrested and taken to prisons camps. On November 26, 1942, hundreds of Jews were picked up by the police in the middle of the night and were transported to the dock in Oslo. They were forced on...

Director : Eirik Svensson

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 120

Language : German, Hebrew, 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 jew searching for the truth about meyer dvoretsky

סרט תיעודי על חייו של מאיר דבורצקי/Meyer Dvoretsky. דבורצקי נולד בגרודנו שבופלין ב1894. בבגרותו היגר לנורביה ושם נישא למארי שוטלנד/Marie Shotland. הוא עשה חיל בעסקי בגדים , אך ב1942 נרצח באושוויץ. שם נרצחו גם אשתו ובתו. בנו זיגורד נרצח בינור 1944.

Production Year : 2013

Language : Norwegian

When the town went quiet

סרט תיעודי. הסרט מביא את סיפורה של הקהילה היהודית של העיר הנורבגית טרומסה/Tromsø.העיר הצפונית ביותר בנורבגיה. עיר שחיו בה שבע משפחות יהודיות שהשתלבו בחיים העירוניים בכל התחומים. הנאצים השמידו את כל היהודים בעיר. מאז ועד עתה השתררה שתיקה בעיר, לגבי הקהילה היהודית שנמחקה, וסיפורה לא סופר. הסרט הוא חלק מפרוייקט המכיל גם ספר וסדרת רשת בת תשעה פרקים.

Director : Erik Smith-Meyer

Production Year : 2017

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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