Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Is the story of violinist Bronislaw Huberman, who, in 1936, selected 70 of the best Jewish musicians fired by the Nazis, and moved them to Palestine to form the future Israel Philharmonic, saving them from the Holocaust.

Director : Josh Aronson

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 85

Language : English

The House on August Street

The remarkable, unknown story of Beate Berger, a German Jew who single-handedly and with great resolve and vision rescued over 100 children during the Holocaust, smuggling them from Berlin to Palestine in the 1930s. Berger, founder of the House of Love Children’s Home (Beith Ahawah Kinderheim) Berlin’s first home for poor Jewish children, was quick to recognize the Nazi threat and resolved to protect the 120 children under her care on “August Street.” Raising the funds and making all the clandestine arrangements herself, Berger brought groups of children into Palestine from Germany from...

Director : איילת ברגור

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 63

Language : German, Hebrew

The Glass House

Winner of the Best Documentary Prize at the Ein Yehudit Festival, this is the story of Carl Lutz, 1895-1975, Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest during the Nazi occupation and one of the first to be named "Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem. Having been assigned as vice-consul to the Swiss Consulate General in Jaffa from 1935-1941, Lutz was sympathetic towards the Jews and in May 1944, he started working to save Jews in Budapest. He issued thousands of protective letters for emigration to Palestine. He also set up more than 70 safe houses, mostly in the ghetto, declaring them annexes of the Swiss legation....

Director : Enricho Passotti

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 87

Language : Italian

Return to Hell - The Drama of the "Exodus"

Through eyewitness accounts and archival photographs, this documentary depicts the story of the “Exodus”, the ship that became a symbol of the struggle for the right to immigrate to the land of Israel. Approximately 4,500 Jewish refugees boarded the “Exodus” July 11th 1947, a ship that was purchased by the Mossad for Aliya Bet. In cramped conditions and shortages in supplies, the ship left the port in Southern France. During the voyage the name of the ship was changed to “Exit Europe 1947”.

Director : Dietmar Schulz

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 45

Language : German

המנדט - משכנים לאויבים

סדרת תעודה. הסדרה אודות תולדות הסכסוך הערבי הישראלי. הפרק השני.

Director : ירון ניסקי, אבי מרקדו-אטדגי

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 56

Language : Arabic, English, Hebrew

Our Special Story – The Israel Philharmonic – From remembrance to Rebirth

A short documentary film. The features testimonies and personal stories of musicians who lived through the Holocaust as well as second and third generation survivors. The film traces the Orchestra’s beginnings in the 1930s, when Bronislaw Huberman, the noted Polish born Jewish violinist and musician, persuaded 75 Jewish musicians from major European orchestras to immigrate to Palestine after Hitler rose to power, creating what he called the “materialization of the Zionist culture in the fatherland” on the sand dunes of Tel Aviv. The Orchestra’s opening concert was conducted by Arturo Toscanini, the greatest...

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 21

Language : English

המפוחית שהצילה את חיי

A testimony. Testimony of Zvi (Horst) Cohen, a member of Kibbutz Maabarot, born in Berlin in 1931. Zvi tells of his childhood in Germany, before Adolf Hitler came to power, and after that, living under the Nuremberg Laws, during Kristallnacht 1938, and during World War II. On May 7, 1943, Zvi and his parents were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Since he knew how to play German folk songs, at the time of his arrest, Zvi played the harmonica. He and his parents survived for two years in the Theresienstadt ghetto until the end of the war. The testimony was first broadcast on Holocaust...

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 93

Language : Hebrew

Les Enfants

סרט תיעודי. הסרט סוקר את שכונת רחביה הירושלמית, שהוגדרה כאחת משכונות הגנים הראשונות והיפות בארץ, בעבר ובהווה. השכונה, שעם תושביה נמנו מנהיגי היישוב הראשונים, אישי ציבור נודעים, אנשי אקדמיה, מדענים, רופאים ורבים מבני העלייה החמישית שהתיישבו בה והקנו לה צביון אירופי, שינתה את פניה מאז שנות השמונים. דור המייסדים כבר איננו ודור ההמשך עזב ברובו. רבים מהבתים המקוריים נהרסו, ובתי הפאר שנבנו במקומם נרכשו בחלקם על ידי תושבי חוץ ועומדים בשיממונם רוב ימות השנה.

Director : Aliza Eshed, אלי אביר

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 60

Language : Hebrew

Between the Doors - The Story of Holocaust Survivor Zipora Granat

A documentary. Zipora (Feige) was in born in Belfort, France, in 1931 to a traditional and educated family. Following the German occupation of France, her parents contacted women from the Salvation Army who tended to Jewish children that had been arrested, and Zipora's mother began assisting with their activity. Zipora's parents were later caught and separately sent to Auschwitz. Her two brothers Shmuel and Yosef, which had been under the care of the Salvation Army, were transferred to a Jewish institution in Paris. Zipora and her sister Sima hid in girls' boarding schools in the city of Besançon. Following the...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 62

רגעי החופש האחרונים - לברלין, בעקבות מכתבים

סרט זכרון אישי של דן גולן, על סבו וסתו , אהרון ואלזה דובקובסקי ז"ל, שנספו בשואה, הוריו של אמו , אסתר גולן, ילידת 1923, שנפטרה ב1923. הסרט הוא בעקבות מכתבים של סבו וסבתו המתארים את התקופה הסוערת בברלין, עם עלות הנאצים לשלטון.

Director : דן גולן

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 19

Language : Hebrew