Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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In this documentary, experts reveal photographs, films, documents, and artifacts that tell the story of how the Holocaust evolved from the early days of persecution in Nazi Germany to the systematic destruction of millions of people. These remnants the blueprint for a crematorium, a propaganda-filled childrens book, official guidelines for classifying prisoners, bullets and the rings of victims unearthed from a mass grave, and more help complete the picture of what it took to plan and implement the eradication of an entire race.

Director : Erik Nelson

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 88

Language : English

While the World was Silent

Documentary film that deals with the absence of world reaction to news about the methodical murder of Jews in Europe. Through archival films, photographs, and testimonies the attempts to influence the policies of allied countries to act on behalf of the Jews, and the lack of reaction of these countries which did not initiate rescue action are described.

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 10

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Chelmno- A Testimony

Documentary film that brings the testimony of Srebrnik Shimon , one of the only survivors of the murder vans in Chelmno. The film makes use of the few photographs of the trucks and the area.

Director : Noemi Schory

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

Treblinka- A Testimony of the Extermination Process

Documentary film that brings the testimony of Eliahu Rosenberg who describes the operation and process of annihilation in Treblinka. The film integrates a multi-screen presentation with an animated model of the camp.

Director : Noemi Schory

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 6

Language : Hebrew

השתיקה השוודית

A documentary film. On a night train in the midst of the Second World War, a German SS officer secretly passes on the very first testimony of the Holocaust to a Swedish diplomat. In present time an old woman tries to find the truth to this event which gave her father a sense of guilt for the rest of his life. This film begins in the Holocaust to evolve into a modern story about personal and collective guilt

Director : Carl Svensson

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 93

Language : Swedish

32 Classified Pages - The Report from Hell

A documentary film. In April 1944, the least known great escape of WW2 took place. Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, Slovak Jews, succeeded in escaping from the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, with help of the camp underground, and overcoming difficulties and dangers they reach Žilina, Slovakia. There, before the heads of the Jewish community, they testify about the extermination of the Jews in the camp. Their written testimony becomes the "Auschwitz Protocol of Vrba and Wetzler." The protocol that reaches the Vatican, the Allies, and is even partly broadcast on BBC radio, encountered distrust,...

Director : Jan Novák

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 62

Language : Czech