Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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כתבת טלויזיה של חדשות ערוץ 10 על סרט טורקי חדש " דרקון טורקי"

כתבתו של דני מולכו ויונתן רגב - סרט טורקי חדש "דרקון טורקי" המתעד את התערבותם של דיפלומטים בהצלת יהודים.

Director : דני מולכו

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew, Turkish

Dramatic film about Max Baumstein, (Michel Piccoli), a well-known European human rights activist and avowed pacifist, who murders a politician from South America, and is tried for his crime. It turns out that his victim was a Nazi war criminal who ordered the deaths of thousands of people, including Baumstein's parents. Flashbacks reveal Max coping with the horrors of Nazi-occupied France, and Elsa Weiner, (Romy Schneider), who saved his life while struggling to free her husband Michel from a concentration camp. Based on novel by Joseph Kessel.

Director : Jacques Rouffio

Production Year : 1982

Duration : 110

Language : French, German

Diplomats for the Damned

As Hitler rolled across Europe, millions of Jews and political enemies of the Third Reich were maliciously exterminated. Yet many more would have died were it not for the bravery of a few foreign service diplomats. Years before D-Day, men like Switzerland's Carl Lutz, Portugal's Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Hiram Bingham of the U.S., and Germany's George Ferdinand Duckwitz secretly issued visas, falsified papers, and cut backroom deals to rescue the damned from the Nazi clutch.

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 45

Language : English

The Rescuers - Heroes of the Holocaust

This full lenght documentary tells the stories of 12 non-Jewish diplomats from 11 countries, who, against the orders of their governments and alongside other envoys, helped save an estimated 200,000 European Jews during World War II.

Director : Michael King

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 99

Language : English

Days That Shook the world - Kristallnacht

Documentary series, dealing with crucial days and events of the 20th century. Each chapter presents archive material and dramatic reenacments. Based on eye-testimonies and archive materials, this episode presents a dramatized account of the events of November 9th, 1938, a night that changed the life of the Jews in Germany and came to known as a turning point in Hitler's persecution of the Jews. Gangs of Nazi youths roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows and burning and looting synagogues. Many Jews were attacked and 91 died.

Director : Nic Young

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 30

Language : English, German

Rudolf Hess - The Man Who Died Twice

Based on archival footages, this six parts series follows the creation Israel and its development from the rise of Zionism through the Holocaust, War of Independence, Jewish immigration, developments in the 1950s and 60s, Six Days War, diplomatic international front, Yom Kippur War and Camp David Accords to Oslo Agreements. It also details the major battles and the rise of the young state's statesmen, including the first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. Among those featured are U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Richard Nixon, key leaders Winston Churchill, Anwar Sadat, David Ben-Gurion, Shimon Peres, Golda Meir,...

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 120

Language : English

Israel - A Nation Is Born, Coming of Age 1956-1967, Six Days That Changed the Middle East 1967-1973

Director : Neville Meyer

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 120

Language : English

Israel - A Nation Is Born, From the Rise of Zionism to 1948, The Creation of the State 1948-1956.

Based on archival footage, this six parts series follows the creation Israel and its development from the rise of Zionism through the Holocaust, War of Independence, Jewish immigration, developments in the 1950s and 60s, Six Days War, diplomatic international front, Yom Kippur War and Camp David Accords to Oslo Agreements. It also details the major battles and the rise of the young state's statesmen, including the first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. Among those featured are U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Richard Nixon, key leaders Winston Churchill, Anwar Sadat, David Ben-Gurion, Shimn Peres, Golda Meir,...

Director : Neville Meyer

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 120

Language : English

Message for Chiune Sugihara - Part 1

A documentary film based on the testimony of seven Vancouver families who were saved by Sugihara’s visas and she would like to widen her research to include Sugihara visa recipients (or their family members) who now live in Ontario. Including interviews with: Alan Bayless, Bram Lermer, Deborah Ross and Nathan Zalkow.

Director : Aya Takahashi

Production Year : 2012

Language : English