Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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The cellist Eduard Weissmann makes from Berlin on the way from Vienna, the sisters Evelyne Katja Mayer and Rainer, from New York of the actor Harvey Keitel and the writer Norman Manea. The journey to the mythical places of their origin, not only in the past, but also in the present, to people who are today living in Czernowitz, the Ukrainian student Tanja and the Germans almost 90jährigen John Scott.

Director : Volker Koepp

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 133

Holocaust

This film uses documentary material and a visit to the Yad Vashem Museum to show the terrible story of the Holocaust of European Jewry in 1933-1945. During this period, six million of the eleven million Jews living in Europe, were killed. A special emphasis is put on the struggle of the Jews and the ghetto uprising.

Director : Ben Kerner

Production Year : 1975

Duration : 28

Language : Hebrew

Once and Today, a German Camp at Beogradskom Sajmištu

This documentary tells the story of Sajmiste, a Nazi Concentration Camp in Serbia on the left bank of the Sava next to Belgrad. Sajmiste was active between Dec. 41 to Sep. 44 and was used initially for Jewish prisoners. Most of the Serbian Jews lost their lives in gas tracks that were used in the camp during Spring 42. Later, in Aug. 42, when Belgrade was declared as "free from Jews", Sajmiste was used for anti-Nazi activists. In 1944 the camp was bombed from the air by American planes and the result was 80 dead and 170 wounded. The original cause for the bombings was a near by railroad track. SS men ran...

Director : Dejan Kosanovic

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 44

Language : Serbian-Croatian

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

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Final part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Liberation and Revenge’ completes the history of Auschwitz. As the end of the war approached, Auschwitz officers tried to hide the evidence of their crimes but were not completely successful. After liberation, survivors searched for their family and tried to return to their prewar homes, but former communities and neighbors did not always welcome them. As evidence of war crimes emerged, some senior SS officers were tried and convicted; others were allowed to resume their lives. Over 4 years, 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz and 1.1 million people died...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Fifth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Murder and Intrigue’ explores the web of international politics spun during the last nine months of 1944. By that spring, the Allies knew about Auschwitz and had the military capability to bomb it. Yet despite the pleas of Jewish leaders, the British and Americans decided not to bomb the railways or gas chambers. During the spring and summer, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz at a time when the killing machinery had been honed to perfection. That autumn saw a significant act of resistance in Auschwitz, when a group of Jewish...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Forth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Corruption’ reveals why Auschwitz was unique in the Nazi state as the only site that was both a concentration and an extermination camp. The reason was simple-money. At Auschwitz, the Nazis wanted to kill "useless mouths" instantly and work stronger prisoners to death as slave laborers in places like the nearby IG Farben factory. Meanwhile, the SS profited from the belongings of those they killed-so much so, that in the summer of 1943, an investigation was launched into corruption in the camp and the commandant was removed. Elsewhere, individuals and nations are...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution, part 3: Factories of Death.

Third part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Factories of Death’ examines the annihilation system that the Nazis spread throughout Europe, with Auschwitz as the hub. It tells why the first transport of Jewish men, women, and children interred at Drancy, outside Paris, were transported to Auschwitz in March 1942 and what happened to the children who were rounded up without their parents. Genocide is being perpetrated not only at Auschwitz, but also at other camps, such as Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor. In the final segment, Linda Ellerbee talks with Deborah Dwork, Rose Prof. of Holocaust History at Clark...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Second part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Orders and Initiatives’ highlights the crucial decision-making period of the Holocaust, encompassing the secret plans of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Reinhard Heydrich. At a conference at Wannsee in January 1942, the participants work toward finalizing their goal-the systematic genocide of an entire people. The first gas chambers are built at Auschwitz and the use of Zyklon B is developed. German doctors arrive to oversee each transport, deciding who should live and who should die. In the final segment, Linda Ellerbee talks with Claudia Koonz, prof. of...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

First part in the BBC 6-part documentary series, ‘Surprising Beginnings’ (March 1940-September 1941), sets the stage for the series and examines the radical increase in violence against all opponents of the Nazi state during this 18-month period. In particular, the program explores the importance of the German Army's invasion of the Soviet Union during the summer of 1941 and connects this campaign to the first gassing experiments in Auschwitz, which were aimed at Russian prisoners of war, not Jews. In the final segment, Linda Ellerbee talks with Michael Berenbaum, professor of theology at the University of...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 47

Language : English

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