Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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נשארת בחיים ונטעת בנו חיים - משואה לתקומה, סיפורו של מרדכי (מקס) דוניץ - חלק 2

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 45

Language : English, Hebrew

The Legacy - Persecution, Displacement and Resistance in National Socialism - Part 2

This DVD contains stories of survivors, collection of Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles. Total of approximately 52,000 interviews together, in 36 languages in 56 countries were admitted. In Austria, about 180 emerged several interviews, the world's approximately 1200 additional interviews with former Austrian women. A working group of specialized historians, and video experts has thirteen of the interviews and selected for use in the classroom prepared.

Production Year : 2008

Language : German

Getting in Touch with My Roots - Esther Ramiel (Levin)

סרט זיכרון אישי העוקב אחר מסע שורשים שערכה אסתר רמיאל לבית לוין בבלארוס ב- 2007. לוין, שאינה יודעת בוודאות את תאריך הולדתה, מספרת בסרט על הוריה ואחיה יוסף, על קורותיה כילדה בשואה, ועל משמעות הביקור בעיר הולדתה טראב, אז פולין, עם משפחתה. לוין הוחבאה בשנים 1942 - 1945 ע"י ינינה פוזניאק, אישה נוצרייה, לאחר חיסול גטו איביה. אחת ממטרות הביקור היה ניסיון למצוא אותה. בסצינה מרגשת בסרט השתיים נפגשות ואסתר מודה לינינה במילים: "תודה שאני חיה". כולל תצלומי משפחה. קריינות מאת לוין עצמה ומאת בנה דרור ובתה דרורית.

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 55

Language : Hebrew, Russian

Children of the Storm

This documentary centers on interviews with dozens of the 1,100 Jewish refugee orphans who came to Canada under the postwar Canadian Jewish Congress War Orphans Project. Their stories describe survival of the Holocaust and the difficult transition to establish new lives in foster homes. Historian Irving Abella relates the Canadian wartime record, including Ottawa's rejection of 5,000 Jewish refugee children, all of whom subsequently perished. These survivors reflect the endurance and determination that allowed them to contribute to their adopted country in business, law, medicine, education, art and science....

Director : Jack Kuper

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 96

Language : English

The Legacy - Persecution, Displacement and Resistance in National Socialism - Part 1

Production Year : 2008

Language : German

The Truce

This moving film by Italian Director Francesco Rosi (Carmen) tells the story of the journey of the great writer Primo Levi (based on his book “The Reawakening”), from his release from Auschwitz until his return to his homeland Italy. John Turturro, heart-warming in the role of Levi, reveals anew the humanity that the Nazis tried to destroy in the war. The film was runner-up for the Gold Palm Prize at Cannes Festival.

Director : Francesco Rosi

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 125

Language : English, German, Italian, Polish, Russian

Pillar of Fire, Part 6 - Exodus 1945 - 1947

Episode 6 in the Isreali TV documentary series “The Pillar of Fire”, that explores the history of the Zionist Movement till the establishment of the state of Israel. This Episode deals with the post WWII years 1945-1947. Including archive materials and interviews. Participants: Moshe Sonnenschon – Holocaust survivor Herold Bily – Assistant to the British Foreign Office Sonia Hirsh – Refugee Israel Galili – Hagana Command John Shaw – Senior Secretary, Government of Palestine Menahem Begin – Irgun Commander, on the explosion of the King David Hotel and the Irgun people...

Director : Michael Lev Tov

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 51

Language : English

Mendel

Drama of a Jewish family, The Trotzigs', from Germany who, having survived the Nazi concentration camps, relocate to Norway in 1954. Curious nine-years-old Mendel Trotzig, who was born after the war, knows his family is keeping something from him, a secret that seems connected to a mysterious photograph in his mother's pocketbook, but his parents are determine to shield him from the horrors of the past.

Director : Alexander Rosler

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 94

Language : Norwegian

Von Zuhause weg Kein Deutsch gar Nichts... Displaced Persons

עדויות ניצולים ששהו במחנות עקורים. כולל גם סרטי ארכיון המתעדים את החיים במחנות העקורים לאחר המלחמה

Director : Monika Hey

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 43

Language : German

The Last Sea 1945-1948

Based on archive films, this documentary presents testimonies by anonymous survivors giving evidence on the liberation, the difficult passages through post war Europe, confrontations with the British Navy, detention at camps on Cyprus, and the final arrival in Eretz Israel. “The Last Sea” is the second episode in a series of three Holocaust documentaries produced by the “Ghettos Fighters House”. (The other two are “The 81st Blow” about the rise of anti-Semitism, and “The Face of the Revolt” about the Jewish Resistance). Winner of the Silver Eagle, International Festival of Historic Films, 1983.

Director : David Bergman, Jacko Erlich, Haim Guri

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 60

Language : Hebrew