Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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The summer of 1945. Tadeusz, a former Home Army (AK) soldier who lost everything in the war, is journeying across Masuria. He arrives at the home of a German soldier's widow. Rose, who lives alone on a large farm, gives him a cool welcome but lets him stay the night. Tadeusz repays her by helping around the farm. Though she won't admit it, Rose needs protection from looters who keep coming to the farm. Gradually Tadeusz discovers the reasons for her solitude. Amidst a landscape ravaged by war, an impossible love is born between two people from distant worlds.

Director : Wojciech Smarzowski

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 94

Language : Polish

Power of the Powerless

Siła Bezsilnych (Power of the Powerless) series tells the story of the Polish resistance movement against the Communist government during World War II. This chapter is dedicated to Joseph Kuras, nicknamed "Fire", who was the commander of the partisan organization "Lightning". The organization acted to release anti-communist underground prisoners from the "Saint Michala" prison in the center of Krakow near military camps and secret police headquarters with not a single shot fired. The last living witness Zbigniew Plobodah describes the action. The history of "Fire" reflects the history of post-war Poland. The...

Director : Tadeusz Pawlicki

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 49

Language : Polish

Fugitive aka The Runaway

Documentary about Kazimierz Piechowski - the organizer of the most daring escape from Auschwitz. For belonging to the Army was also imprisoned by the authorities after the war. Story of an ordinary man who became the victim of two totalitarian systems: Nazism and communism.

Director : Marek Tomasz Pawłowski

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 56

Language : Polish

Another Truth

Documentary. During the 2nd World War the threat of total extinction hung over the Jews in Europe, given the silence of democratic countries and the Jewish Diaspora. After the war, the Poles ran a propaganda campaign designed to cleanse their conscience of the stain of indifference of Poland in relation to the extermination of its Jews, and to answer the allegations that Poland collaborated with the German extermination of the Jews. They highlighted the help Poland gave Jews and as a result the risks Poles were exposed to from their German occupiers. The film tells the history of Polish Jewry beginning in the...

Director : Jagna Wright, Aneta Naszyńska

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 41

Language : Polish

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

Jews in the Warsaw Uprising 1944

מקומם של לוחמים יהודים ב"מרד וורשה הפולני", 1.8.1944 - 2.10.1944, אשר דוכא ע"י הגרמנים. עדויות ראייה, תצלומי וסרטי ארכיון.

Director : Anna Ferens, Anna Kowalewska-Onaszkiewicz

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 56

Language : Polish

Cursed Soldiers. Fate of Rebellious

סרט דוקומנטרי המתאר את מאבקם של אנשי המחתרת הפולנית AK שנלחמה במלחמת העולם השנייה נגד הנאצים.

Director : Wincenty Ronisz

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 58

Language : Polish

Majdanek 1944 - Victims And Perpetrators שואה - שחרור מיידאנק

Documentary film based on archival films filmed in the Majdanek camp and its vicinity a short time after liberation. Interviews with survivors and SS men, the visit of General Bulganin and allied diplomats, the visit of foreign correspondents, uncovering of the monument in memory of Lublin.

Director : Irmgard Von Zur Muehlen, Bengt Von Zur Mühlen

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 65

Language : English

For Your and Our Freedom

סרט על מקומם של חיילים יהודים פולין במלחמות על עצמאותה של פולין.

Director : Paweł Woldan

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 40

Language : Polish

Fighting on Three Fronts: Antisemitism and the Jewish Partisans

A short documentary. Antisemitism followed the Jews even into the ranks of partisan units. First-hand accounts describe the different ways Jewish partisans dealt with persecution, including forming all-Jewish partisan groups.

Director : Mitch Braff

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 14

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