Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Holocaust: A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz

BBC Television Special presenting works of Bach, Chopin and others by musicians in different places in Auschwitz. The programme was broadcast in memory of the camp’s victims and includes interviews with survivors of the orchestra who had to play for the SS. Winner of the BAFTA Wheldon Award (British Film Award) and the Emmy in the Arts Programming category.

Director : James Kent

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 88

Language : English, German, Polish

Song of Life

This documentary follows the preparations and journey to Auschwitz of 100 singers from the “Philharmonic Choir”, named by the conductor Daniel Oren as “one of the best in the world”. The singers of the choir feel committed to music, but regret there is not much demand for their music in Israeli culture. They accompany the opera, appear with the Philharmonic, represent the state at official events, but struggle to find seasonal work from which they can make a living.

Director : Yosi Lion, Ran Brener

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 50

Language : Hebrew

Playing for Time

Based on the book by Fania Fenelon, French Jew who became a member of a women's orchestra in Auschwitz, this Emmy Award-winning television drama tells the story of a group of women prisoners in Auschwitz who survived the gas chambers by playing in a small orchestra.

Director : Daniel Mann

Production Year : 1980

Duration : 150

Language : English

The Commandant's Shadow

A documentary. Follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the son of Rudolf Höss, the Camp Commandant of Auschwitz when he confronts his father's involvement in the murder of over a million Jews during the Holocaust.

Director : Völker, Daniela

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 110

Language : English, German

Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz

סרט תיעודי. Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.

Director : Christian Berger

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 86

Language : English, German

Maestro

סרט תיעודי.

Director : Alexander Valenti

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 75

Language : English, Italian

Survivors - Portraits of the Holocaust

סרט תיעודי.

Production Year : 2021

Language : English

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 ,...

Director : Ron Small

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 48

Language : English

NOTEN DER NOT

סרט תיעודי על תזמורת הנשים באושוויץ. בין המרואיינות, הגברת אניטה וולפיש, חברת התזמורת.

Director : Jorg Lange, Ralf Lange

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 29

Language : German

Homage to Life

The film portrays four people (Esther Bejarano, Yehuda Bacon, Éva Pusztai-Fahidi, Greta Klingsberg) of exceptional courage, indestructible hope and deep compassion. Having experienced firsthand great inhumanity they became teachers of humaneness. As survivors of Auschwitz, they instill courage in all of us to fully serve and value life.

Director : Thomas Gonschior, Christa Spannbauer

Duration : 60

Language : German