Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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On the morning of her wedding day, Ellis receives a package in the mail. It contains a diary kept by the first love of her life, Bernie, during his time underground in World War II. When Bernie did not return, Ellis married another man and moved with him to Palestine. She kept the diary hidden for 65 years until her historian daughter prevailed upon her to read it and try to find out what happened to Bernie. This gripping documentary is a combination detective story and love saga.

Director : יסמין נובק

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 54

Language : Dutch, English, Hebrew

Child Of The Forest

The Heritage Film Project presents Holocaust survivor Yona Bromberg as she recalls her early childhood in Rokitno, Poland.

Director : Eduardo Montes-Bradley

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 15

Language : English

Warsaw - Year 5703

Feature film taking place in the winter of 1943. Two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within, makes his way to a supposedly safe apartment only to find it occupied by Germans. Another tenant, a Pole Stefania, abruptly offers to shelter him in her spacious apartment. She comforts him and they make love that very night. Stefania is uncommonly generous and willing to jeopardize her own safety by hiding a Jew. She even goes to a nearby church and rescues Fryda. But Fryda is ungrateful and...

Director : Janusz Kijowski

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 106

Language : German

Maria's World

סרט תיעודי. הסרט מספר על סרט דוקומנטרי על תרצה קשפיצקי ניצולת שואה שחיה בזמן מלחמת העולם השנייה בזהות בדויה כנוצרייה בלבוב ובקראקוב. לאחר המלחמה עלתה לישראל דרך מחנה המעצר בקפריסין, התגייסה לצה"ל במלחמת העצמאות וכיום מרצה בפני תלמידים וחיילים על קורותיה בשואה. הסרט מתלווה אליה ליום בו היא מספרת את סיפורה בפני חיילי צה"ל ובמקביל מספרת לבמאי בפולנית על קורותיה. בסרט משולבים קטעי ארכיון בשחור לבן מהתקופות השונות.

Director : Michał Bukojemski

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 28

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Baruch Shub- Moral Dilemmas

Documentary film that brings the testimony of Baruch Shub about moral dilemmas in the ghetto and the question of a group of young people whether to stay in the ghetto and be sentenced to death or flee to the forest despite endangering their lives and the lives of those remaining in the ghetto.

Director : Liran Atzmor

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 4

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2001 - Zinaide Mudrik

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2001. Torchlighter Zinaide Mudrik. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 3

Language : Russian

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2011 - Avraham Aviel

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2011 "Fragments of Memory - The Faces Behind the Documents, Artifacts and Photographs". Torchlighter Avraham Aviel. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2008 - Menachem Katz

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2008 "Holocaust Survivors in Israel: 60 Years Since the Establishment of the State". Torchlighter Menachem Katz. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2005 - Yerakhmiyel Felzenshteyn

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2005 "The Anguish of Liberation and the Return to Life". Torchlighter Yerakhmiyel Felzenshteyn. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew