Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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By taking us on a dense and multi-layered, beautiful travel through all the world's infrastructure, Périot leaves us puzzled by ending on the dead-end street of a former world-war II concentration camp.

Director : Jean-Gabriel Périot

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 10

Language : Silent Film

Women of the Shoah

This testimonial film made by the University of La Matanza for Holocaust-Shoah Museum of Buenos Aires, recounts the ordeal of Jewish women went through during the Holocaust. Through interviews with 6 survivors of concentration camps, ghettos and actions of resistance under Nazi rule, shows the essential role of fighting against oppression, abuse, degradation and death.

Director : Diego Csome, Rosana Gatti

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 45

Language : Spanish

Survivor

Produced by polish TV (TV3), this documentary deals with Sobibor death camp in east Poland. In the center of the film is the figure of Thomas Toivi Blatt, survivor of the escape from the camp that took place in October 1943. Blatt took part in writing the script for the 1987 TV drama “The Escape From Sobibor” and he is the author of the 1982 book Sobibor - The Forgotten Revolt.

Director : Grazyna Czermińska, Bogdan Czermiński

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 20

Language : Polish

Bieg Historii

Documentary film about the memorial site at the Sobibor Death Camp in East Poland. Sobibor was built as part of “Operation Reinhard” (the code name the elimination of Polish Jewry) and operated for two years until the mass escape of prisoners in October 1943. Participating in the film is a survivor of the camp, Thomas ‘Toivi’ Blatt, who published his memoirs in 1982 in his book ‘Sobibor – The Forgotten Revolt’ and also co-wrote the screenplay for the television drama “Escape from Sobibor” (1987). Includes archival photographs and interviews with officials who work at the memorial site.

Director : Grazyna Czermińska, Bogdan Czermiński

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 13

Language : Polish

Bełżec - Part 1

Although Belzec, Poland, is not one of the most well-known death camps, it was an appalling theatre of the Nazi extermination. It is estimated that between March and December 1942, about 600,000 Jews were murdered, deported mainly from Krakow and Lwow, but also from Germany,Austria and Czechoslovakia.The deportees were usually murdered few hours after their arrival and promptly hidden. In the first months of 1943 the death camp was dismantled, the dead bodies dug up and cremated to conceal the traces: the ground was levelled and trees were planted. Nevertheless, the Russians found the terrible truth.The only...

Director : Guillaume Moscovitz

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 110

Language : French, Hebrew, Polish

Chelmno- A Testimony

Documentary film that brings the testimony of Srebrnik Shimon , one of the only survivors of the murder vans in Chelmno. The film makes use of the few photographs of the trucks and the area.

Director : Noemi Schory

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

Remember This

A mono-drama. The story of Yan Karski. He stated that all he can says is that he saw it, and it was the truth. Karski was a reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness. After surviving the Blitzkrieg, Karski swor allegiance to the Polish Underground and risked his life to carry the first eyewitness reports of war-torn Poland to the Western world, and ultimately, the Oval Office. Karski ecaped a Gestapo prison, and beared witness to the despair of the Warsaw ghetto and confronted by the inhumanity of a death camp, Karski endured mental anguish and physical torture to stand tall in the halls of power and...

Director : Derek Goldman, Jeff Hutchens

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 95

Language : English