Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Diary of the last heroes - the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising

This documentary presents testimony of fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising recollecting their memories and visiting the places where it happened. Includes photographs and archival film.

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 21 22 48

Language : English, German, Polish, Yiddish

Comandant Edelman

When one hears the words "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" in Israel, the name that immediately comes to mind is Mordecai Anielewicz, leader of the uprising from the Zionist Shomer HaTzair movement. Until not long ago, few in Israel knew much about Marek Edelman-the representative of the non-Zionist socialist Bund in the uprising, and the one who took command after Anielewicz's death. After the War, Edelman chose to stay in Poland rather than immigrate to Israel like many of his comrades-in-arms, although he stayed in contact with colleagues such as Antek Zuckerman and Zvia Lubetkin. Edelman studied medicine in Łodz,...

Director : Artur Więcek „baron”

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 56

Language : Polish

The Lonely Struggle - Marek Edelmann, Last Hero Of The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Interview with Marek Edelman, one of the commanders of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt. Includes photographs and archival films.

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 65

Language : English, Polish

Zygielbojm's Death

This is a documentary on the life and death of an exceptional man. S. A. Zygielbojm, an important member of Poland's Jewish community, was smuggled out of the country in 1942 and sent abroad as the Jewish representative of the Polish government-in-exile to spread word of the Nazi atrocities in Poland. Ultimately deeming his efforts futile, Zygielbojm committed suicide after the Warsaw ghetto uprising in an attempt to shock the world out of its indifference. The film won Golden Hobby-Horse of Cracow - Special Mention at Krakow Film Festival 2001 Participants: Reuven Zygielbojm, Jan Karski, Marek...

Director : Dzamila Ankiewicz

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 52

Language : Polish

לקט סרטי מוזיאון יד ושם - גלריה 6, חלק 2, Master International

מאסטר אינטרנשיונל של רצף סרטים לפי הופעתם במוזיאון יד ושם

Director : ראובן הקר, Noemi Schory, Itay Ken-Tor

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 90

Language : Hebrew

Lonely Uprising

משדר מיוחד של ערוץ 1 של הטל' הישראלית בהנחיית רם עברון לציון 50 שנה למרד גטו וורשה.

Director : Zvi Salfon

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 77

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Shielding the Flame

Based on a book by Hanna Krall, this TV docu-drama tells the story of Marek Edelman, a commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and a doctor in the Lodz hospital after WWII. in a quasi-documentry actors reenact Dr. Edeleman's story

Director : Andrzej Brzozowski

Production Year : 1981

Duration : 30

Language : Polish