Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Documentary about the Italian Righteous Giorgio Perlasca. Including interview with Perlasca, testimonies by his survivors, and archive footage.

Director : Gadi Kastel

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 46

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Aristides de Sousa Mendes O' Consul Injusticado, Righteous Gentle

Based on archival materials and testimonies, this TV documentary tells the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885-1954), a Portuguese diplomat in Bordeaux, France, who fought against his own government for the safety of Jewish refugees soon after the fall of France. During 16-23/6/40, he issued Portuguese visas free of charge, to over 30,000 refugees seeking to escape the Nazi terror, 12,000 of who were Jews. The Portuguese government ordered his immediate recall to Lisbon and he was dismissed with all his retirement pensions suspended. With 13 children, and no other means at his disposal, Sousa Mendes sank...

Director : Olga Teresa

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 56

Language : English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese

The Rescuers - Heroes of the Holocaust

This full lenght documentary tells the stories of 12 non-Jewish diplomats from 11 countries, who, against the orders of their governments and alongside other envoys, helped save an estimated 200,000 European Jews during World War II.

Director : Michael King

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 99

Language : English

Rain Drop

Drama that takes place in Germany in the 1930s and tells about the Jewish Goldbach family, owners of a textile business, who are experiencing the changing times in pre-World War II Germany.

Director : Michael Hoffmann, Harry Raymon

Production Year : 1982

Duration : 90

Language : German

Lili Marleen

Documentary film focusing on Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat and Righteous among the Nations, who saved approximately 10,000 Jews from the Nazis while serving in occupied Budapest. The film tells, in brief, about his activities and through the stories of prominent winners of the Wallenberg medals (Mip Heiss 1994, Kailash Satirtahi 2002, Eli Wiesel 1990, The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet 1994, John Lewis 2000, Paul Rosesgina 2005), shows the success of his enterprise. Includes archival photographs and film. Participants: Judy Lux, Jewish Community Foundation, John Godfrey, Director of Wallenberg Foundation,...

Director : Noah Ovshinsky

Production Year : 2005

Language : English

The Witnesses Have The Words

באמצעות תצלומים ועדויות מאת שמונה ניצולים, נשים וגברים, סרט תעודי העוסק בפליטים יהודים אשר מצאו מקלט בפורטוגל לאחר לאחר עליית הנאצים לשלטון בגרמניה ב- 1933. כמו כן, כולל הסרט ראיון עם עם דה מנדש, נכדו של חסיד אומות העולם דה סוסה מנדש. משתתפים: זיגפריד רוזנטל מרים ברודהיים פדרו סינגר ברני קרישר מתילדה פייסט, פורטוגלית-קתולית שנישאה ליהודי ב- 1930 זינה ליברמן מנואלה אוגוסט סינגר, בתם של פליטים אלוורו דה סוסה מנדש, נכדו של חסיד אומות העולם דה סוסה מנדש

Director : Esther Mucznik

Duration : 69

Language : Portuguese

Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness

This documentary film presents the Japanese diplomat, a righteous gentile, Sempo Sugihara (1986-1900). Includes archival footage and photographs.

Director : Robert Kirk

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 82

Language : English

כתבות ערוץ 1 על פיתוח אתר יד ושם, חסידי אומות עולם, שתי תערוכות ניצולים ומצילים/ תוכנית הבוקר של ערוץ 2 - שידורי קשת ביום השואה תשנ"ח, 1998.

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 38

Language : Hebrew

Life In The Shadow of Death: The Kovno Ghetto and the 9th Fort (documentary segments and testimonies)

Life In The Shadow of Death: The Kovno Ghetto And The 9th Fort (documentary segments and testimonies) "Faces of the City - The Jews in Kovno, "The Great Aktion" "Imprisonment of Underground Members and Operation to Blur Traces at the 9th Fort," "The Escape from the Ninth Fort"

Director : Yahaly Gat

Production Year : 1992

Language : Hebrew

Who Shall Live And Who Shall Die?

This documentary film presents an overview of Roosevelt’s leadership along with Jewish leaders in the US. It deals with the question of whether or not the US knew about the extermination of European Jewry and her ability to prevent it. Includes archival footage and testimonies.

Director : Laurence Jarvik

Production Year : 1981

Duration : 90

Language : English

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