Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's planned round-up and delivery to concentration camps of all Jews. Story is told from the point of view of one Jewish family. English dialogue and U.S. actors top-cast

Director : Kenneth Madsen

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 99

Language : Danish, English

Gestures of Reconciliation - International Short Film Competition, Disc 1

סדרת סרטים קצרים.

Director : Katsiaryna Kamockaya, Viktor Korzuon‬, אסתי עמרמי, דנה לבנט, Hans Stützer, Daniel Erb, Moonika Siimets, Priit Pääsuke, Jaanis Valk

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 117

Language : Belarusian, English, Estonian, German, Hebrew, Russian

Getting Away with Murder(s)

A documentary. Almost 1 million people in 22 countries carried out the unprovoked murder of 11 million innocent men, women and children. 99% of those responsible were never prosecuted; most were never even questioned. Despite the extensive cinema documentary coverage of the Holocaust to date, not one has explored in any depth the almost total lack of justice, statistically, towards the vast numbers of eagerly participating perpetrators who, at war's end, simply walked away -- untouched by justice. This film addresses this glaring omission.

Director : David Wilkinson

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 175

Language : English

We Remember

סרט קצר של הבמאי דני זקון. הסרט מביא את זכרון השואה באמצעות מיצג אומנותי.

Director : Ilya Tooz

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 7

804 - South Africans Volunteer in Israel's War of Independence

A documentary about the South African volunteers who fought in Israel's War of Independence in 1948. Told mostly through interviews with the surviving South African Machalniks, this is a unique firsthand account of a widely overlooked group's essential contribution to Israel's early survival. Many of the stories conveyed here have never before been printed, recorded or circulated. These intimate personal testimonies feature within a broader historical narrative of the time, incorporating interviews withe leading scholars of Jewish history such as professor Milton Shain and Sir Martin Gilbert.

Director : Etienne Naude

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 53

Language : English

Inauguration of the Monument to the Victims of Concentration Camp Bergen Belsen, March 23, 1994

A ceremony on the erection of a monument in France to victims of Bergen-Belsen. Health Minister Simone Veil, Minister of Veterans Affairs Philippe Mestre and General Bernard d'Astorg participated.

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 55

Language : French