Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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The Secret

סרט תעודי המציג את תערוכת האמנית הארגנטינאית Eugenia Bekeris שנערכה לזכר בני משפחתה שנספו בשואה.

Director : Eugenia Bekeris

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 11

Language : Spanish

Address Unknown

סרט עלילתי באורך מלא.

Director : William Cameron Menzies

Production Year : 1944

Duration : 75

Language : English

Hitler's Mona Lisa

A doumentary film. The Nazis plundered cultural property from every territory they occupied. This was conducted in a systematic manner with organisations specifically created to determine which public and private collections were most valuable to the Nazi regime. As the Allied forces bombed Germany’s cities and historic institutions, the Nazis began storing the stolen artworks in salt mines and caves for protection from Allied bombing raids. One of these salt mines was in Altaussee in Austria. As the Allied troops approached the salt mine, Gauleiter August Eigruber gave orders to blow it up. The destruction...

Director : Petra Dorrmann, André Schäfer

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 52

Language : English, German

The spoils

A documentary. An exhibition conceived to redress the tragic history of a Jewish art dealer forced to escape Germany sparked a scandal rife with legal battles and accusations, exposing the political and moral crisis surrounding the return of artworks stolen during the scond world war.

Director : Jamie Kastner

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 105

Language : English, German

The life and times of a Nazi art thief - part 2

A mini documentary series. It unpacks the decades-spanning crimes of Bruno Lohse. In 1939, the Nazis commenced the century’s most sprawling art theft. As Hitler’s armies swept across Europe so did they begin snatching up art and objects from Jewish homes, galleries, museums, and private collections. A depot was set up by the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (ERR) at the Jeu de Paume in Paris to receive these works; over four years, it saw the delivery of more than 21,900 artworks. This entire operation of plunder, said historian Jonathan Petropoulos, was carried out with “industrial efficiency.”

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 55

Language : English

The life and times of a Nazi art thief - part 1

Director : Hugo Macgregor

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 118

Language : English

The Last Vermeer

A feature film.Whilw a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, Han van Meegeren was hosting soirées and selling Dutch art treasures to Hermann Goring and other top Nazis. Following the war, the J ew becomes an investigator assigned the task of identifying and redistributing stolen art, resulting in the flamboyant van Meegeren being accused of collaboration , a crime punishable by death. But, despite mounting evidence the investigator, with the aid of his assistant , becomes increasingly convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the position of fighting to save his...

Director : Dan Friedkin

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 118

Language : English

Righteous Thieves

A thriller. The head of a secret organization assembles a crew to steal back artwork plundered by Nazis during World War II..

Director : Anthony Nardolillo

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 91

Language : English

The European Dream

A documentary. The film tells the story of an collection which was robbed in world war two. This a journey back in time to the cultural and artistic world of the Jews of Berlin pre-world War II. Joined this journey Roberto Graetz, whose grandfather owned a collection of 250 artworks. On that journey we encountered the world of art saturated with struggles, and attempts to control those works of art today, to the dream and its eradication.

Director : Mooly Landesman

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 75

Language : English, German, Hebrew, Spanish

Charlotte Salomon - Life and the Maiden

A documentary animated movie. This documentary suggest a look at the young woman who, though she was murdered in Auschwitz at age 26, completed an amount of art, including some 1,300 paintings, before her deportation. Narrated h from her own voice and featuring her images, the film delves into her youth in Berlin, her escape to the south of France after the rise of the Nazis, her love affair with a music teacher, and the creative explosion that resulted in her multimedia work—ahead-of-their-time creations mixing gouache, text, and music.

Director : Muriel Coulin, Delphine Coulin

Production Year : 2022

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