Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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The life story of the Jewish survivor Selma Engel-Wijnberg (1922) in the Second World War as one of the very few who survived the Sobibor extermination camp

Director : Ad Van Liempt, Esmeralda Böhm

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 46

Language : Dutch, English

Histories Of The Holocaust - Buchenwald 1937-42

This program documents the events of Buchenwald, where the prisoners were dealt out savage punishment for the slightest infraction of the rules. Inmates would freeze in -20° temperatures, starved and were worked to death; the guard dogs enjoyed significantly better living conditions. The camp was originally built to house 8,000, but by the end in 1945, when the U.S. forces arrived, contained over 50,000 enemies of the Reich, including Jews, political prisoners, homosexuals and Jehovah s Witnesses. Never an extermination camp like Auschwitz, Buchenwald was a labor camp, but it excelled in making everything...

Director : Gerry Malir

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 73

Language : English

עובדה עם אילנה דיין - לגלות את סוביבור

משדר מיוחד של תוכנית "עובדה" לכבוד יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה. שידור הסרט "לגלות את סוביבור".

Director : Gilad Tokatly, בן שני

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 45

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Those Are Tough Memories aka They're Painful Memories

Documentary film about the Holocaust of the Romani people in Czech territories, made for the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno. The film draws from archival sources, as well as testimonies given by witnesses of the Romani Holocaust.

Director : Monika Rychlíková

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 28

Language : Czech

Little Town - Ghetto Kutno

Documentary film that deals with Kutno, a city in the Lodz district in central Poland. Former residents of the city watch archival films that document the city in September 1939 and June 1940 and tell their stories.

Director : Agnieszka Arnold

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 29

Language : Polish

Holocaust Memorials in Europe

Director : Adalbert Feher

Production Year : 1981

Duration : 124

Language : German, Hebrew

Travel in the factory of the extermination

Director : Andrée Red Maroso, Federico Ambiel

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 30

Language : Hebrew

Ana's Trip

The son of Ana Notta joins his mother on a family roots journey to Poland. After a genealogical search on the internet, they find relatives, among them a cousin of her father's who escaped from Poland. They travel from Argentia to visit Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz and Lublin.

Director : Alan Ezequel Jais

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 30

Language : Spanish

Out of the Ashes

Drama based on the true story of Dr. Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian gynecologist who was incarcerated at Auschwitz during the Second World War. The story of Perl is told in flashbacks while she is being interrogated by the American Immigration Panel as a result of her application for American citizenship after the war. She is forced to deal with accusations of cooperating with the Nazis because she worked as a gynecologist in the camp. Winner of the Emmy for Best Cinematography for a television film or mini series.

Director : Joseph Sargent

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 113

Language : English

Hitler - A Balance: The Criminal

Last episode in a six-part series that surveys the life and figure of Hitler comprehensively. Includes many interviews and also archival excerpts that were not seen until production of the series. This episode, Der. Verbrecher, deals with Hitler's criminal activity: annihilation of the Jews and other minorities, repression of peoples and conduct of the war.

Director : Ralf Piechowiak, Guido Knopp

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 52

Language : German

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