Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Jeder Mensch hat einen Namen - Geschützter Grünbestand

Documentary about the KZ-Außenlager (subcamp) at the Night-Fighter Airbase Hailfingen/Tailfingen. Includes interview with former prisoner-survivor of the camp Mordechai Ciechanower.

Director : Johannes Kuhn

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 57

Language : German

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

Ungarische Zwangsarbeiterinnen in Allendorfer - Erinnerungen von Zeitzeuginnen

ראיונות עם ניצולות שואה מהונגריה, אסירות מחנה ריכוז אלנדורף.

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 26

Language : German

Wall of silence - trailer

Trailer. This documentary. In the spring of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was almost over, and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Late that night, they walked down to the village, where 180 enslaved Jewish laborers waited, made them strip naked, and shot them all, before returning to the bright lights of the party deals with the lost Jewish community of Rechnitz. The futile attempts to locate the mass grave of this community, which finally...

Director : Eduard Erne, Margareta Heinrich

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 15

Language : English

Requiem for 500, 000

Director : Waclaw Kazmierczak, Jerzy Bossak

Production Year : 1963

Duration : 54

Language : German

The Last Brushmaker

סיפור חייו של חיים פרקש ,מייסד חברת פאר, המייצר כבר יותר מ 70 שנה מברשות בבית המלאכה שלו.

Director : יעל קציר

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 31

Language : Hebrew

Europe: The Mighty Continent - The English, D-Day and the Holocaust.

This series traces the history of Europe between 1900 and 1975 and includes film clips and photographs from documentary archives. Segment analyzes the events of World War II in Europe focusing on the unprecedented destruction of civilian populations. Discusses the Nazi extermination camps and their brutality against Jewish and Slavic peoples

Director : Brian Lewis

Production Year : 1975

Duration : 52

Language : English

Free Fall, Private Hungary, part 10

Episode 10 in director’s Péter Forgács series "Private Hungary" which is based on a home footage that document the daily life of the Hungarians, before, during and after WWII. This experimental film is based on home movies, documenting the family life of Hungarian Jews from 1937 until the German occupation in 1944. This is a joint effort of the film director Péter Forgács and György Pető, an amateur photographer whose dozens of reels of film were made by Forgacs into a cinematic testimony about Hungary during the war and the German occupation.

Director : Peter Forgacs

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 71 75

Language : English, Hungarian

בית העדות ניר גלים

Homemade documentary: Holocaust survivor Yehiel's testimony. The film contains photos and footage of Yehiel's grandson trip to Poland.

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 146

Language : Hebrew

People's Century - Master Race (1933), Total War (1939), Brave new World (1945)

Archival series of 26 programmes looking at the past 100 years. Three chapetrs are relevant: 1933- In this series looking at momemtous events in the twentieth century through the eyes of ordinary people, this programme looks at the rise of Hitler and its consequences. 1939- Civilians recount their experiences of the Second World War. 1945- Brave New World: Charts the meeting of American and Soviet armies on the banks of the Elbe in 1945. American and Russian soldiers talk about that experience. The programme covers the period from victory in the Second World War through the rise of the Cold War to the building...

Director : Jonathan Lewis, John Bridcut

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 107

Language : English

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