Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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The Pavel Haas Quartet is a string quartet founded in 2002, since when it has a won a number of international awards. Named after the Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899–1944), who was deported from Czechoslovakia in 1941 and died in the Auschwitz concentration camp, the quartet is made up of first violinist Veronika Jarůškova, second violinist Eva Karová, violist Pavel Nikl, and cellist Peter Jarůšek.

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 55

Language : Czech, Japanese

Voices of the Holocaust

Music Concert. Orchestra performance for the Voices of the Holocaust, based on music written by Jewish people in ghettos and concentration camps during World War II. Dr Philip Klein researched the music, selected the songs and the composer Sheridan Sheyfried was commissioned to arrange the work. Conducted by Russel Shelly. The Brazilian version was prepared and directed by Cicero Alves Filho.

Director : Cícero Alves Filho

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 85

Language : Portuguese

Warsaw Ghetto - Culture Without Walls

Contemporary Germany's renowned literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki served as Adam Czerniakow's (Chairman of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto) personal aide. In this documentary film comprising archival films, photographs and Reich-Ranicki's compelling testimony, we learn about cultural activity that took place in the ghetto despite the extreme conditions.

Director : Noemi Schory

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 6

Language : German, Hebrew

Who Will Remain?

A documentary film. Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life in Vilna and his survival during the Holocaust. Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet whose verse drew on his youth in Siberia and Vilna, his spiritual and material resistance during World War II, and his post-war life in the State of Israel. The film includes Sutzkever’s testimony at the Nuremberg Trials. Recitation of his poetry and personal reflections on resisting Nazi forces as a partisan fighter reveals how...

Director : Christa P. Whitney

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 60

Language : English, Hebrew, Yiddish

Terezin: Children of the Holocaust

A play. Terezin follows a day and night in the lives of six children held at Camp theresienstadt in the Czech Republic. The camp, also known as Terezin, imprisoned thousands of European Jews, including over 15,000 children, less than 150 of whom survived. While the play takes place during the Holocaust, it teaches audiences about the consequences of hate and discrimination, the need for greater social responsibility, and the power of every individual voice in standing up to hate.

Director : Kathryn Lowell, Andrew Valianti

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 65

Language : English

Heaven in Auschwitz

A documentary film. The story of thirteen survivors of the Holocaust in former Czechoslovakia, during the Second World War. These men and women found a Jewish-German character named Fredy Hirsch, who changed their lives forever. The film describes the terrible living conditions in Terezin Ghetto and; on the other hand, the approach to culture and art behind the walls of the concentration camp. By the end of 1943 these people were deported together with their families to the extermination camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. And there, in the middle of hell, they lived in.

Director : Aaron Cohen

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 74

Language : English, Spanish