Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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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

There are no Such Places anymore...

Tarlow is a small town in the Sandomierz region. Before the second World War, over 50% of local population were Jews. None of them survived the war. The only people that survived are Polish neighbours whose memories are often the only proof that those who are gone once lived there

results.listIds.director : Ewa Szprynger

results.listIds.year : 2003

results.listIds.duration : 20

results.listIds.lang : Polish

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

Kaksi matkaa muistiin Two Journeys into the Memory מסע זכרון

סרט תיעודי של המאבי הפיני ג'וחא סומליינן. הסרט מספר את קורותי של מאייר פרנק. מאייר פרנק נולד ב1928 בפולין. ב1940 העבירו הגרמנים , יחד עם בני משפחתו לג'טו לודז' . אביו גווע למוות ב1941, ואמו ושתי אחיותיו נרצחו על ידי האצים ב1942. ב1947 , לאחר שאיבד את כל משפחתו, עבר לפילנד.

results.listIds.director : Juha Suomalainen

results.listIds.year : 2003

results.listIds.duration : 55

results.listIds.lang : Finnish

Flucht 1937 - Wer Half Justus Nussbaum

A documentary film. At the beginning, there stood a picture of Justus Nussbaum, a Jew from Osnabrueck and brother of the painter Felix Nussbaum and his employee, the Catholic Wilhelm Hellmeister on the grounds of the metal work company Gossel & Nussbaum.The great-granddaughter of Wilhelm Hellemeister takes this photograph as a starting point on the flight of Justus Nussbaum and Alfred Gossels to Amsterdam. The schoolgirl managed not only to illustrate the circumstances of the flight, but to also give insight in Osnabrueck in the Nazi times and the life in exile in Amsterdam.

results.listIds.director : Abigail Mathew

results.listIds.year : 2016

results.listIds.duration : 93

results.listIds.lang : English, German

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

The Escape to Sweden הבריחה לשבדיה, 1943

A Sudent film. The wartime experiences of the producer’s grandfather, Leopold Edelsten, born 1934 in Denmark. Edelsten narrates how he survived the German occupation and revisits the places he stayed in or passed through during his escape from Denmark to Sweden. Edelsten and his family first hid at the practice of his uncle’s colleague.They successfully reached Sweden. The student film was selected as the winning movie in a competition between movies depicting the rescue and escape of Danish Jewry to Sweden.

results.listIds.director : Adam Aron Edelsten

results.listIds.year : 2013

results.listIds.duration : 9

results.listIds.lang : Danish

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