Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2003 - Hela Schüpper-Rufeisen

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2003. Torchlighter Hela Schüpper-Rufeisen. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Diary of the last heroes - the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising

This documentary presents testimony of fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising recollecting their memories and visiting the places where it happened. Includes photographs and archival film.

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 21 22 48

Language : English, German, Polish, Yiddish

The Wall

Adapted by Millard Lampell from his own 1960 Broadway play, which was inspired by John Hersey's 1950 novel, The Wall tells of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943. The story is told through the eyes of Warsaw Jew Dolek Benson (Tom Conti) who is a passive observer of the atrocities all around him until he learns the truth about the Nazi's "resettlement" program. Rachel Roberts, cast as Regina Kowalski, a former schoolteacher, made her final appearance in this film. Filmed on location in Sosnowiec, Poland, and first telecast February 16, 1982, The Wall earned a Peabody Award the following year.

Director : Robert Markowitz

Production Year : 1982

Duration : 135

Language : English

מדליקי משואות ביד ושם, 2003

סרטוני מדליקי משואות טקס יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה, תשס"ג (2003): הלה שיפר רופאייזן (מרד גטו וורשה, אי"ל, אנילביץ', מילא 18, יורי וילנר, התאבדות, בני עקיבא). אפרים אגמון (תנועות הנוער בבודפשט, זיופים, הצלה, תעודות, הברחת גבול, בתי ילדים). דניז סיקיריסקי (צופים יהודים, מרסיי, לה שמבון סור ליניון, "מסייה אנדרה", ז'וזף באס, הצלת ילדים, הצלה ע"י איכרים, רכישת נשק). אדית ארנסט דרורי (טלאי צהוב, מחתרות, מחנה נובאקי, מרד סלובקי, פרטיזנים, סלובקים-נאצים). ראובן דפני (צנחנים ארץ-ישראלים, חנה סנש). יורק פלונסקי (ילדים, גטו וורשה, הברחות, מחתרת, נשק, מערכת הביוב בגטו).

Production Year : 2003

Language : Hebrew

From Despair to Defiance - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Documentary film that tells through the memories of 6 of the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, formerly members of ZOB, (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa) the Jewish organization of the ghetto fighter, about the ghetto revolt that broke out on the eve of Passover 5703 (1943) and the steps that led to it. In addition to eyewitness testimonies, the film also includes photographs, archival films and location photographs.

Director : David Kaufman

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 69

Language : English

Uprising

Television drama about the Warsaw Ghetto revolt. The plot of "Uprising" begins with the internment of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and continues until its final liquidation. The film places a stress on central personalities in the revolt and in the Warsaw Ghetto in general. In addition to a dramatic reconstruction of the facts the story represented in the film also includes some occurrences that are not faithful to the historic reality.

Director : Jon Avnet

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 178

Language : English

Hitler's Holocaust - Resistance

Fifth episode in a documentary series produced by the German television network ZDF that deals with the destruction of European Jewry. The 6-part series surveys the process that led to "The Final Solution" and the ways it was executed through documentary films that were discovered in archives in Eastern Europe, testimonies, and analysis of historians. The title of the series Holokaust is intentionally written with a K instead of C, in accordance with German script in order to remind the viewer that the murder of the Jews of Europe was carried out by Germans. This episode deals with the resistance on the German...

Director : Maurice Philip Remy

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 42 43 47

Language : German