Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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A drama series. 1941: When the French government institutes its anti-Jewish laws, Sabine Zlatin, a Jewish nurse, loses her hospital job. She joins a relief organization which assigns her to save Jewish children threatened with arrest and deportation. Sabine puts her heart and soul into her mission. After saving hundreds of children from French detention camps, she hides 44 children in a large country house in a quiet, remote village, Izieu. Her Refugee Children's Colony becomes a haven of peace and hope. But the barbarism of the German Occupation is not ready to leave them in peace. The tragedy for which Gestapo...

Director : Alain Wermus

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 86

Language : French

La dame d'Izieu - partie 1 - la mission

Director : Alain Wermus

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 84

Language : French

Fanny's story

A short animated documentary. The Story of Holocaust Survivor Fanny Ben Ami. Ben Ami was born in Germany. With the rise of the Nazis to power, her family relocated to France. After the occupation of France and her father's prisonment, Fanny and her sisters were sent to a children's home with the assistance of the OSE organization. Later, when a group of children was organized to escape by the OSE, despite many obstacles and at great personal risk, anny led the group of children across the Swiss border. The film incorporates and animates Fanny's original illustrations, which document her life story.

Director : Nadan Pines

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 27

Language : Hebrew

בראש מורם

סרט תיעודי.

Director : תמרי, גיל

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 45

Language : English, French, Hebrew

A girl in hiding - Berthe Badihi's story

A short animated documentary. Bert Bédichi was born in Lyon, France, in 1932. After Germany occupied France in June 1940 and Jews faced the threat of arrest and deportation, Bert was hidden in the home of Madame Massonnet, living under a false identity until the end of the war. Madame Massonnet was later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for her courageous actions.

Director : Daniela Bukor

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 14

Language : Hebrew

"לונדון את קירשנבאום"-על מותו ז'ורז' לואנז'ה, אביר הליגיון הצרפתי

כתבת טלוויזיה בתוכנית "לונדון את קירשנבאום" בתאריך 30 בדצמבר 2018. אתמול מת

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 6

Language : French, Hebrew

La Maternité d'Elne

Men and women meet up again for the first time in the makeshift maternity home where they were born and survived, a world away from the camps during World War II. They will tell us the story of this haven of peace, this refuge of life, and of their shared heritage. In 1939, amid the barbarity which was being unleashed on Europe, a young Swiss female primary school teacher started a maternity home in an abandoned castle in the French Western Pyrenees which enabled over 600 children of Spanish, Jewish and gypsy refugees to be born and survive. A reversed image of its day, Elne maternity home became the heart of a...

Director : Frédéric Goldbronn

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 52

Language : French