Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

71 globalSearch.onlyResults

Program of the German television network ZDF which was produced in 1995 to mark 50 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Survey of the camp activities through survivor testimonies, testimonies of former SS men, photographs, archival films, a memorial ceremony.

results.listIds.director : Guido Knopp

results.listIds.year : 1995

results.listIds.duration : 56

results.listIds.lang : German

Hourban - Sonderkommando, Auschwitz-Birkenau

In the days following the Red Army’s entry into the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration complex on 27th January 1945, buried under the ashes around the crematoriums were discovered several manuscripts hidden in makeshift containers. The manuscripts of Zalmen Gradowski, Leib Langfus and Zalmen Lewental were written in Yiddish. Their authors were Sonderkommandos. These « special teams » of prisoners were in charge of operating the crematoriums and subsidiary installations in the death industry conceived by the Nazis: undressing rooms, gas chambers, furnaces and incineration ditches.

results.listIds.director : Emil Weiss

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 52

results.listIds.lang : French

Classic Club - Pavel Haas Quartet

The Pavel Haas Quartet is a string quartet founded in 2002, since when it has a won a number of international awards. Named after the Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899–1944), who was deported from Czechoslovakia in 1941 and died in the Auschwitz concentration camp, the quartet is made up of first violinist Veronika Jarůškova, second violinist Eva Karová, violist Pavel Nikl, and cellist Peter Jarůšek.

results.listIds.year : 2009

results.listIds.duration : 55

results.listIds.lang : Czech, Japanese

Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

results.listIds.director : William Miles, Nina Rosenblum

results.listIds.year : 1992

results.listIds.duration : 75

results.listIds.lang : English

Auschwitz - Recollections By Prisoner No.1327 / Auschwitz

Two documentary films: 1: "Auschwitz - Memories of Prisoner Number 1327" . Testimony against the background of a visit to the camp today. 2 "Auschwitz". Description of the history and activity of the camp through photographs, illustrations, documents, paintings, archival films and photographs of the camp today.

results.listIds.director : Tadeusz Wudzki, Lech Piotrowski

results.listIds.year : 1991

results.listIds.duration : 70

results.listIds.lang : Polish

The Liberation of Auschwitz, 1945

A doumentary series. The part is based on original fottages that were shot in Auschwitz by Soviet photographs between January 27th, 1945 and February 28th, 1945, the first month after the camp's liberation. Almost no editing was done, nor sound or music added. Alexander Vorontsov one of the Soviet photographs, participated in the shooting of the film.

results.listIds.director : Irmgard Von Zur Muehlen

results.listIds.year : 1986

results.listIds.duration : 53

results.listIds.lang : English, German, Polish

Akasztottak

סרט קצר ובו מיצג אומנותי. אומן יוצר פסלי אנשים תלויים, כאלגוריה. ההיסטוריה של כל מדינה מלאה באנשים שהם פשוט תלויים. לא קדושים מעונים, לא גיבורים, אלא פשוט תלויים; הם לא היו מערכות, לא רוצחים, אלא קולבים. ההיסטוריה והגורל גורמים למישהו להיות מכור. פסלי אנדראז בורוץ '("תלויים", מוזיאון לאמנויות יפות, בודפשט) משדרים תחושה כללית זו. הסרט מנסה לעקוף את האמנה כדי להגדיר מחדש את החוויה הזו, אלא מבקש למצוא מקומות לזכות בחוויית התלייה ולחבר אותה למוזיקה של László Dés לפסלים. המחזה עוסק בחיים כמו מוות אלים, משחק וסבל, תמימות ורצח - הקרבנות של כל הזמנים. בלי הופעתם של שחקנים חיים, לסרט יש סיפור, לאנשים בו יש גורל,...

results.listIds.director : Peter Gothar

results.listIds.year : 2000

results.listIds.duration : 24

Kitty - Return to Auschwitz

This documentary tells the story of English radiographer Kitty Hart's return to the Auschwitz camp. Accompanied by her son, Kitty, who lived in the camp between the ages of 16 and 18, paints a portrait of life in the camp. Kitty-- Return to Auschwitz won several international awards, including the Royal Television Society Documentary Award, the Commonwealth Film and Television Festival Award and the 1985 Tokyo Prize.

results.listIds.director : Peter Morley

results.listIds.year : 1979

results.listIds.duration : 70

results.listIds.lang : English

One Day You'll Understand

To be translated

results.listIds.director : Amos Gitai

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 89

results.listIds.lang : French

The Eighty First Blow

Documentary film based on archival films and survivor testimonies. The film covers the oppression of Jews under the Nazis and features rare historical footage of concentration camps. The title is derived from a comment by a witness at Adolf Eichmann's trial. According to his testimony, he was whipped 80 times by the Nazis, but was not believed by Israelis after the war; this final doubt of his own people was the "81st blow". The 81st Blow is the first film in the Israeli Holocaust Trilogy by Bergman, Ehrlich and Gouri. It was followed by The Last Sea (1980) and Flames in the Ashes (1985). It was nominated for an...

results.listIds.director : David Bergman, Haim Guri, Jacko Erlich

results.listIds.year : 1974

results.listIds.duration : 46

results.listIds.lang : German

Items per page:

1 – 10 of 71