Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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An intimate and quietly strong story of a Jewish boy coming of age in Nazi Germany as events uproot and disband his family. As the Nazis round up and deport Jews, David runs from hideout to hideout and ultimately manages to escape to Palestine with the help of an anti-Nazi German. It is 1940 and David may well be the final Jew to escape from the Third Reich. He departs as one who confronted evil, and he emerges with his spirit intact.

Director : Peter Lilienthal

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 125

Language : German

Fanny's story

A short animated documentary. The Story of Holocaust Survivor Fanny Ben Ami. Ben Ami was born in Germany. With the rise of the Nazis to power, her family relocated to France. After the occupation of France and her father's prisonment, Fanny and her sisters were sent to a children's home with the assistance of the OSE organization. Later, when a group of children was organized to escape by the OSE, despite many obstacles and at great personal risk, anny led the group of children across the Swiss border. The film incorporates and animates Fanny's original illustrations, which document her life story.

Director : Nadan Pines

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 27

Language : Hebrew

Focherini Family and Farher Sala's story

A short documentary. Odoardo Focherini and Don Dante Sala created a rescue network during the second world war and helped over 100 Jewish people reach Switzerland. The network extended from the province of Modena to the foot of Mount Bisbino. Focherini paid for these actions with his life.

Director : Valentina Arena

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 15

Language : Italian

De Joodse Bruiloft

A documentary film.

Director : Annet Huisman

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 83

Language : West Frisian

The Improbable Escape of Two Toung Brothers From Nazi Germany

A documentary. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, in December 1938, two young Jewish boys, ages 12 and 14, boarded a train out of Berlin for Holland, to escape Grmany. Arriving in Nijmegen, Holland without documents or family, George and Alexander Tscherny were placed with a family by the Dutch Committee for Jewish Refugees, waiting to be granted asylum from the Queen and then dispatched to a refugee camp. When Germany invaded Holland in May 1940, the Tscherny brothers were in further peril. Nazis seized the property housing the refugee children and they were shunted to an orphanage in Amsterdam. Meanwhile,...

Director : Giselle Heimann Ratain

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 70

Language : English

The Crossing

A feature film. Ten year old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War. Just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda and Otto’s parents are arrested, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two Jewish children, Sarah and Daniel, hidden in a secret cupboard in their basement at home. It is now up to Gerda and Otto to finish what their parents started: To help Sarah and Daniel flee from the Nazis, cross the border to neutral Sweden and reunite them with their parents. The is a film about the confidence, uncompromising...

Director : Johanne Helgeland

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 96

Language : Norwegian

עדות של מנחם חריט

עדותו של מנחם חריט ז"ל אודות המלטותה של קבוצת צעירים מן העיירה פזעלווע-ZEEVA שבליטא זמן קצר לפני כניסת הצבא הנאצי. בהמשך מתאר מנחם את השתלשלות האירועים עד שהגיעה הקבוצה לעיר טשקטנט. בין היתר מוזכר גם שמואל וולפסון ז"ל אשר יזם את הבריחה.

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 46

Language : Hebrew