Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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A Day In The Warsaw Ghetto - A Birthday Trip In Hell

A documentary film. At the outbreak of World War II, 380,000 Jews lived in Warsaw, about a third of the city's population. In the fall of 1940, the the Germans transferred them to the ghetto. On November 19, 1982, Günther Schwarberg, the editor of the German magazine "Der Stern" was invited to the home of an 84-year-old man, from whom he received a yellowing envelope with 140 negatives of photos he had taken 41 years earlier, during World War II. This man was Heinz Jost. who took pictures at the ghetto . The film combines archive footage, photographs by Joest, and excerpts from the diaries of Emmanuel...

Director : Jack Kuper

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 30

Language : English

Leszno Street Scenes in the Warsaw Ghetto

A documentary film including archival films showing the street views of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 4

Language : Musical Score

Beggars in the Warsaw Ghetto (I)

Documentary film that makes use of photographs from the Jost collection, difficult street scenes in the ghetto, the hunger and the distress.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 2

Language : Silent Film

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