Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Based on the book by Fania Fenelon, French Jew who became a member of a women's orchestra in Auschwitz, this Emmy Award-winning television drama tells the story of a group of women prisoners in Auschwitz who survived the gas chambers by playing in a small orchestra.

Director : Daniel Mann

Production Year : 1980

Duration : 150

Language : English

Notes of life - the story of Hilde (Grunbaum) Zimche

A short documentary. The story of Holocaust Survivor Hilde (Grünbaum) Zimche. Hilde was born in Berlin, Germany. During the Holocaust Hilde was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was a member of the women’s orchestra. She was later sent to Bergen-Belsen, where she was eventually liberated.

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 20

Language : Hebrew

The Commandant's Shadow

A documentary. Follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the son of Rudolf Höss, the Camp Commandant of Auschwitz when he confronts his father's involvement in the murder of over a million Jews during the Holocaust.

Director : Daniela Völker

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 110

Language : English, German

Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz

סרט תיעודי. Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.

Director : Christian Berger

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 86

Language : English, German

Survivors - Portraits of the Holocaust

סרט תיעודי.

Production Year : 2021

Language : English

We Shall Not Die Now

סרט דוקומנטרי מאת אשטון גליקמן. הסרט מגולל את סיפורם של למעלה מעשרים וחמישה ניצולים, משחררים ומלומדים, וקטעי תמונות מאתרי המחנות בפולין, כולל אושוויץ וטרבלינקה.

Director : Ashton Gleckman

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 151

Language : German

NOTEN DER NOT

סרט תיעודי על תזמורת הנשים באושוויץ. בין המרואיינות, הגברת אניטה וולפיש, חברת התזמורת.

Director : Jorg Lange, Ralf Lange

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 29

Language : German