Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Director : Waclaw Kazmierczak, Jerzy Bossak

Production Year : 1963

Duration : 54

Language : German

Episode 10 in director’s Péter Forgács series "Private Hungary" which is based on a home footage that document the daily life of the Hungarians, before, during and after WWII. This experimental film is based on home movies, documenting the family life of Hungarian Jews from 1937 until the German occupation in 1944. This is a joint effort of the film director Péter Forgács and György Pető, an amateur photographer whose dozens of reels of film were made by Forgacs into a cinematic testimony about Hungary during the war and the German occupation.

Director : Peter Forgacs

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 71 75

Language : English, Hungarian

Birth certificate

Threes short- stories (On the road, Letter from the camp, Blood drop) presenting full of tension atmosphere of every day occupation life, From the children's perspective.

Director : Stanislaw Rozewicz

Production Year : 1961

Duration : 99

Language : Polish

World War Two: The Lost Color Archives - Total War

Collection of archival films in color from the period between 1941 to December 1944; Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack, American soldiers on the way to Europe, president Roosevelt, ships in the American fleet, American women at work in an ammunition factory, convoy of merchant ships in the Atlantic ocean, a British ship firing, German forces in an occupied city in the Soviet Union, local civilian hanging in Pancevo, Warsaw ghetto, Stalingrad after the defeat of the German forces, British soldiers, aerial bombardment, fires in Hamburg after aerial bombardment, Gypsy children in Swabia, Pacific Ocean front in...

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 45

Language : English

Polish Jews

Collection of films based on archival films dealing with the Jews of Poland.

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 95

Language : English, Hebrew, Italian, Yiddish

Warsaw Ghetto - German Occupied Poland, 1942 - edited version

Excerpts from archival films that document the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942.

Production Year : 1942

Duration : 32

Hitler's Holocaust - Ghetto

Third episode in a documentary series produced by the German television network ZDF that deals with the destruction of Europe's Jews. The 6-part series surveys the process that led to "The Final Solution" and the ways it was executed through archival films that were discovered in archives in Eastern Europe, testimonies, and analysis of historians. The series title Holokaust is written intentionally with the letter K instead of C, in accordance with German script in order to remind viewers that the murder of Europe's Jews was carried out by the Germans. This episode deals with the ghettos of Eastern Europe and...

Director : Maurice Philip Remy

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 43

Language : German

The Nazis - A Warning From History - Part 5 - The Road To Treblinka

Fifth part in a BBC documentary series that surveys the history of the Nazis in Germany. The series was produced with the aid of British historian Ian Kershaw and it includes eyewitness testimony, expert analysis, archival films and photographs that were discovered in the countries of the former communist bloc in Europe and are presented here for the first time. This part focuses on the Treblinka death camp, deals with "The Final Solution" and describes the transports of Jews to the death camps and the methods of murder.

Director : Tilman Remme, Laurence Rees

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 50

Language : English