Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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A feature film. Liam is a seven-year-old boy growing up in 1930s Liverpool. Liam's father works at the local shipyard, while his mother keeps the household afloat, pinching pennies, yet keeping spirits high. Life takes a terrible turn when the shipyard closes and Dad loses his job. Humiliated by the fact that his teenage daughter, Teresa, must work as a maid in a wealthy Jewish household, and that his eldest son is the family's major breadwinner, Dad loses his self-respect and becomes disillusioned. A Jewish pawnbroker buys their family trinkets for cash. Their Jewish landlord harasses them for rent. And...

results.listIds.director : Stephen Frears

results.listIds.year : 2000

results.listIds.duration : 91

results.listIds.lang : English

From Galicia to Aargau - Trails of a Jewish European in the 20th century

Over 60 years after World War II Jerzy Czarnecki, a retired nuclear technologist, travels to his native town Mosty Wielkie (now in the Ukraine). The ﬁlm relates his escape from the Nazi and change of name, forced labor in Germany, a new life in Poland after the War and ﬁnally, after a renewed outburst of open anti-Semitism in Poland, his emigration to Switzerland.

results.listIds.director : Peter Scheiner, Susanne Scheiner

results.listIds.year : 2007

results.listIds.duration : 45

results.listIds.lang : German, Ukrainian

Betrayed

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...

results.listIds.director : Eirik Svensson

results.listIds.year : 2020

results.listIds.duration : 120

results.listIds.lang : German, Hebrew, Norwegian

Light in Silent Sorrow: the Story of My Oma

סרט תיעודי.

results.listIds.director : Mirjam Lablan

results.listIds.year : 2000

results.listIds.duration : 61

results.listIds.lang : Dutch, English

The Painted Bird

סרט עלילתי באורך מלאה המבוסס על ספר בשם זה מאת יז'י קושינסקי/Jerzy Kosiński.

results.listIds.director : Václav Marhoul

results.listIds.year : 2019

results.listIds.duration : 170

results.listIds.lang : Czech, German, Russian

To Auschwitz and Back: The Joe Engel Story

A documentary. Born in Zakroczym, in Poland, Holocaust Survivor Joe Engel was taken by the Nazi's at 14 and at 14 and never saw his parents again. Now 90 tears old, Joe is the embodiment of living history and spends his retirement years ensuring the Holocaust is never forgotten. From the overwhelming despair of the Warsaw Gehtto, to the shroud of unceasing death and suffering that was Birkenau and Auswitz, to his escape from a Death Train at 17 and his covert work as a freedom fighter, Joe personally takes us on his vivid journey to hell and back. This is a story of faith, renewal and redemption. Joe Engel ,...

results.listIds.director : Ron Small

results.listIds.year : 2017

results.listIds.duration : 48

results.listIds.lang : English

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A drama television miniseries. An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism. Based on the novel of the same name by the late Philip Roth.

results.listIds.year : 2020

Secret

A Feature film. Ksawery is a young gay man who performs as drag queen in a Warsaw nightclub. Karolina is Jewish and seems to be his agent. Jan is Ksawery's lonely grandfather, who's been hiding a dark secret which the couple wants to reveal.

results.listIds.director : Przemysław Wojcieszek

results.listIds.year : 2012

results.listIds.duration : 82

results.listIds.lang : Polish, Yiddish

From Galicia to Aargau - Epilogue

Shortly after the film "From Galicia to Aargau was finished, Jerzy donated a memorial to remember the Jewish people of Mosty Wielkie who under Nazi rule have been murdered or sent to extermination camps. The memorial site was placed in the forest where people were killed. The Epilogue shows the opening ceremony for the memorial, representatives of the cities's governement and of the churches took part as well as inhabitants. Soon after, in December 2007, Jerzy died. 2011 the memorial was destroyed; it is not known who done it and the Epiloge also documents how the people of Mosty deal with the matter.

results.listIds.director : Peter Scheiner, Susanne Scheiner

results.listIds.year : 2007

results.listIds.duration : 16

results.listIds.lang : Ukrainian

Fulda 14.08.1993 - Ein Überfall?

This short film documents the parade, which took place Aug. 14 in the central German town of Fulda, occurred after police in the states of Thuringia, Bavaria and Saxony had banned similar neo-Nazi demonstrations scheduled to mark the death of Hess six years ago.

results.listIds.director : David Imhof

results.listIds.year : 2013

results.listIds.duration : 25

results.listIds.lang : German