Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Trailer. This documentary. In the spring of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was almost over, and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Late that night, they walked down to the village, where 180 enslaved Jewish laborers waited, made them strip naked, and shot them all, before returning to the bright lights of the party deals with the lost Jewish community of Rechnitz. The futile attempts to locate the mass grave of this community, which finally...

Director : Eduard Erne, Margareta Heinrich

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 15

Language : English

A Wall of Silence

This documentary. In the spring of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was almost over, and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Late that night, they walked down to the village, where 180 enslaved Jewish laborers waited, made them strip naked, and shot them all, before returning to the bright lights of the party deals with the lost Jewish community of Rechnitz. The futile attempts to locate the mass grave of this community, which finally came true...

Director : Eduard Erne, Margareta Heinrich

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 87

Language : German, Hebrew

The road to Baby Yar

A documentary film. With the invasion of Germany into the territory of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, a new stage in the history of the Shoah began, characterized by the massacres of Jews, exemplified in Ukraine. The film shows the events of the first 100 days of the occupation of Ukraine, during which the Nazis, with the participation of local residents, began killing Jews directly in their places of residence, as well as the evolution of the mass murder system in hundreds of killing sites, symbolized by Babi Yar. Conversations with historians, local residents – to those events and Jewish survivors of...

Director : Boris Maftsir

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 107

Language : English, Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian

Investigative Reports - Nazis Secret Killing Squads

Documentary film that describes the method of murder and activity of the Einzatsgruppen, motorized murder units that accompanied the Germany army in occupied territory in the eastern front. Includes testimonies of survivors and liberators, analysis by historians, excerpts from archival films and dramatic reconstructtions. Benjamin Frantz who served as chief prosecutor in the trial of the units' commanders after the war, tells about the course of the deliberations.

Director : Laura Wiessen

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 45

Language : English

The Unseen Holocaust

A documentary film. Decades after Nazi death camps were finally closed: exclusive new footage from Soviet Film Archives has emerged revealing the true extent of the horrors before what was known as the Holocaust. While one often thinks of the camp system as a killing machine of gas chambers at places like Auschwits, this new documentary shows that Germany was killings on a massive scale earlierthan thought. There was another side of the killing, one that is rarely seen or talked about in the west. On the Estern front , the figure is estimated as being over one and a half million innocent people shot and buried...

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 69

Language : English

עדות של פרידה על הסגרתה בידי המחתרת הפולנית

תיעוד ביתי של אודי גרינברג את סבתו , פרידה מייבאום/Frida Maibaum על המחתרת הפולנית שהסגירה אותה לגרמנים ועל האשה הידויה שהצילה אותה ואף היא הוסגרה.

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 6

Language : Hebrew

Archeology

A documentary film showing a most accusing form of archaeology. It tells a compact, sparse but impressive story about an excavation project by a team from the Institute of History of Material Civilization of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The excavation work was executed inside the Birkenau division of the Auschwitz concentration camp, at a site near the former 3rd crematorium. The objects that are being dug up are minor articles for everyday use left behind by all the people of various nationalities who were brutally murdered in the camp during World War II.

Director : Andrzej Brzozowski

Production Year : 1968

Duration : 14

Language : English