Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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תיעוד מסע שורשים לעיירה Grzymalow שבאוקראינה.

Director : דני בק, אביבה פינלס

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 28

Language : Hebrew

City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without father, and their mother, so busy at work, do not notice when boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only, when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland togather with her family and go to…Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become conscious of their and their family roots.The film is a full of emotions but also humorous tentative of self statement, and in case of both kids...

Director : Ami (tadeusz) Drozd

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 90

Language : Polish

Almonds And Raisins: A History Of The Yiddish Cinema

This documentary reviews the Yiddish cinema in the US and Europe between the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927 and the outbreak of the WW2 in 1939. It present excerpts from several of the 300 Yiddish movies made between during these years, and also ties this short life together and puts it into a context. It captures the idea and the history of these movies, which are now, in themselves, important documents of American and Jewish immigrant history. The excerpts of the films themselves tell of the life in New York, many times lives of poverty in new ghettos. There are melodramas about aged parents finding...

Director : Russ Karel, David Elstein

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 90

Language : English

Nina's Journey

A documentary. .The story of Nina, a young girl who attempted to survive along with her family during WW II. The film deals with Lodz, Warsaw, the ghetto, the uprising, the life between the non Jews. By the end of the war, the only survivors were Nina and her brother. After the war she studied medicine. Nina met a Jewish man and left to live with him in Denmark. The film includes dramatic reconstructions with material Polish witnesses and archival footage. Winner of the 2006 Yad Vashem Chairman prize.

Director : Lena Einhorn

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 120

Language : Polish, Swedish

Our Special Story – The Israel Philharmonic – From remembrance to Rebirth

A short documentary film. The features testimonies and personal stories of musicians who lived through the Holocaust as well as second and third generation survivors. The film traces the Orchestra’s beginnings in the 1930s, when Bronislaw Huberman, the noted Polish born Jewish violinist and musician, persuaded 75 Jewish musicians from major European orchestras to immigrate to Palestine after Hitler rose to power, creating what he called the “materialization of the Zionist culture in the fatherland” on the sand dunes of Tel Aviv. The Orchestra’s opening concert was conducted by Arturo Toscanini, the greatest...

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 21

Language : English