Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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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

Healing by Killing

Documentary film that deals with the place of the medical system in Nazi Germany in the extermination apparatus. Filmed in Germany, Austria, Poland, and Russia, the film includes archival photographs, expert commentary, interviews with survivors of euthanasia operations and present-day photographs of locations where the events took place.

Director : Nitsan Aviram

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 90

Language : English, German

Franceska

A documentary. In 1945, an SS officer was shot by a Jewish woman near the gas chamber in Auschwitz. It is said that the act of heroism was done by Francesca Mann, a Jewish dancer from Warsaw. This act of heroism did not receive the resonance it deserved, perhaps because of the rumors that Francesca was an accomplice. The multitude of versions gave birth to a myth, built on a grain of truth. Francesca left behind almost nothing, just a few photos, a few press articles about her appearances in Warsaw before the warת and an abundance of different and contradictory testimonies about her conduct during the war. The...

Director : Lina Chaplin

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 64

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Spanish, Yiddish

Schatten der scham

A documentary. The Nazi deportation of Jews, Roma and Sinti and Carinthian Slovenes left wounds on the victims that have not healed to this day. Three young women, a Carinthian Slovenian, a Roma and a woman with a Jewish background, want to find out why the suffering of their grandmothers is crucial for their lives and feelings. They embark on an exciting, cross-generational search for roots in Austria and New York.

Director : , Sabina Zwitter-Grilc

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 82

Language : German

Survival of a Spirit

סרט תיעודי משולב אנימציה.

Director : Patricia Bury Salier

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 51

Language : English

Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz

סרט תיעודי. Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.

Director : Christian Berger

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 86

Language : English, German

999

A documentary film. It reveals the hidden story about 999 unmarried, young Jewish women registered for government service in a supposed shoe factory and ended up in Auschwitz. Their government had paid the Nazis to take them and work them to death. 94-year-old Edith Grosman reveals the truth of this almost of women's history. The film is based on the book "The First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz".

Director : Heather Dune Macadam

Production Year : 2023

Language : English