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

Little Town - Ghetto Kutno

Documentary film that deals with Kutno, a city in the Lodz district in central Poland. Former residents of the city watch archival films that document the city in September 1939 and June 1940 and tell their stories.

Director : Agnieszka Arnold

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 29

Language : Polish

Deportation to the Kutno and Cracow Ghettos

This is a documentary film making use of archive films and photographs supplying evidence of the deportation of Jews of Krakov and Kotno to the Ghettos.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 3

Language : Silent Film

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