Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Promotional film of the Jewish Agency on the subject of immigration from the Soviet Union to Israel.

Director : N. Belkin, Daniella Carmi, A. Armoza

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 11

Language : English

Nyosha is a ten year old girl. She dreams of buying a pair of shoes during the reality of a pitiless war. She believes that because of her shoes, she will stay alive. A range of animation techniques brings together the dream and the reality and tells Nyosha's story.

Director : לירן קפל, יעל דקל

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 12

נגיעות - תולדות המשפחות קליין ופולק

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 29

Language : Hebrew

Torn

האם אדם יכול להיות בו–זמנית גם כומר קתולי וגם יהודי שומר מצוות? 12 שנה לאחר שהוסמך לכמורה, גילה הכומר הקתולי הפולני רומוולד וואשקינל שהוא נולד להורים יהודים וששמו המקורי הוא יעקב וקסלר. הסרט עוקב אחרי מסעו המרתק של הכומר היהודי, שתחילתו בניהול מיסה בכנסיה בלובלין, פולין ואחריתו בחיים של יהודי שומר מצוות בקיבוץ דתי בישראל. קרוע בין שתי זהויות, רומוולד יעקב לא יכול לוותר על אף אחת מהן, וכתוצאה מכך אף אחת מהדתות אינה מוכנה לקבל אותו לשורותיה. מדינת ישראל מסרבת להכיר בו כיהודי, וכעת הוא נדרש לבחור.

Director : רונית קרצנר

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 72

Language : English, French, Hebrew, Polish

Alive from the ashes

This documentary was broadcasted in the Czech TV, based on the film "Alive from the Ashes". The film depicts the story of Avraham (Freidberg) Harshalom, born in Pruzany in Poland. At the age of 16, he was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. Avraham rebuilt his life in Czechoslovakia. After four years he immigrated to Israel. He served in the Israeli Air Force, raised a family and achieved success in an international industrial business venture. The film documents the journey that Harshalom took in the summer of 2004 with his children and grandchildren. Includes family photographs and...

Director : Itzik Kol

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 58

Language : Hebrew

A life with a suitcase - The Memories of Angelika Schronsdorff

The documentary deals with the life of Angelika Schrobsdorff, an Israeli writer with German origins.

Director : Irmgard Von Zur Muehlen

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 78

Language : German

My Australia

City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without father, and their mother, so busy at work, do not notice when boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only, when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland togather with her family and go to…Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become conscious of their and their family roots.The film is a full of emotions but also humorous tentative of self statement, and in case of both kids...

Director : Ami (tadeusz) Drozd

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 90

Language : Polish

Remembrance is the Secret of Redemption - A Living Testimony by the Artist Esther Lurie

ההיסטוריה של העיר קובנה (ליטא), במשך 40 השנים האחרונות, וגטו קובנה מנקודת ראותה של הציירת אסתר לוריא, והמשך סיפורה בארץ.

Director : מנחם אלעזרי

Duration : 26

Language : Hebrew

End of all Roads

Documentary film that deals with the torturous path of Jewish Shoah survivors from Europe to Mandatory Palestine 1945-1948 through testimonies, archival films and a focus on the story of one illegal immigration ship - "They Will Not Frighten Us".

Director : Yigal Burstein

Production Year : 1981

Duration : 74

Language : Hebrew

Tkuma - Kibbutz Galuyot, A Nation in Uniform, In the Shadow of the Shoah

Episodes in the documentary series produced by the Israel Broadcast Authority "Revival - The First 50 Years": "Ingathering of the Exiles" (the mass immigration 1948-1958), "A Nation in Uniform" (Israeli Security in the Years 1949-1956),"In the Shadow of the Shoah" (the relation of Israel to the Shoah 1948-1966).The third episode "In the Shadow of the Shoah", deals with the breach that existed between Shoah survivors and natives of Israel in the first decade of the state, the resistance that the reparations agreement with Germany aroused, and cut across political boundaries, the placing of the cornerstone of Yad...

Director : Ron Rotem, Yehuda Kaveh, Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 120

Language : Hebrew

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