Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

A Powerful Testimony of Forgiveness - Peter Loth, From Holocaust to New Life

עדות פרונטלית באנגלית מאת פיטר לות' (Peter Loth), ניצול שואה יהודי-גרמני אשר שימש בילדותו לניסויים רפואיים במחנה שטוטהוף (Stutthof). כולל תצלומי ארכיון.

results.listIds.year : 2006

results.listIds.duration : 116

results.listIds.lang : English

יהודי אינדונזיה

Summary: A television documentary about the Jewish community in Indonesia during World War II. In the 1930s and during World War II, many Jews from Eastern Europe arrived in Indonesia and settled there. Evidence of the prosperity of Jewish life in Indonesia during the interwar period is the Zionist newspaper "Erets Israel" which appeared from 1926 to the beginning of the Japanese occupation continuously. At the same time, even before the Japanese occupation, the Jews suffered from anti-Semitism, mainly by Dutch elements who later became part of the Dutch Nazi Party. In January 1942, Indonesia was occupied...

results.listIds.director : איתי ורד

results.listIds.year : 2006

results.listIds.duration : 18

results.listIds.lang : English, Hebrew

Dire Straits - Life in the Lodz Ghetto

עדויות ניצולים מגטו לודז' שתועדו במסגרת גנזך קידוש השם, מכון לתיעוד מחקר והנצחה. העדויות עוסקות בנושאי חיי דת בגטו, מסירות נפש, מצוקת רעב, שמירת כשרות, אמונה, משתתפים: אסתר בורשטיין, נכדת הרב משה מנחם סגל, רבה של לודז' ר' פנחס וינדרבוים חנה אייבשיץ ר' אברהם פאלוך אסתר פליטנשטיין

results.listIds.director : ח. קורנגוט

results.listIds.year : 2007

results.listIds.duration : 28

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Requiem for 500, 000

results.listIds.director : Waclaw Kazmierczak, Jerzy Bossak

results.listIds.year : 1963

results.listIds.duration : 54

results.listIds.lang : German

Little Town - Ghetto Kutno

Documentary film that deals with Kutno, a city in the Lodz district in central Poland. Former residents of the city watch archival films that document the city in September 1939 and June 1940 and tell their stories.

results.listIds.director : Agnieszka Arnold

results.listIds.year : 1997

results.listIds.duration : 29

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Forgotten Transports to Latvia

Documentary about the lesser known transports of the Czechoslovakian Jews to the concentration camps in Latvia. The testimonies of the survivors are complemented by the unique archive material.

results.listIds.director : Lukáš Přibyl

results.listIds.year : 2007

results.listIds.duration : 90

results.listIds.lang : Czech, English

קו החיים - מחתרת תנועות הנוער בהונגריה

Documentary film about a group of Israeli survivors, natives of Hungary, who were members of the resistance underground and rescue organizations visiting Budapest and telling about their lives during the Nazi occupation. Includes archival films that document Budapest during the war and mainly during the German occupation.

results.listIds.director : Galia Shiloah Everes

results.listIds.year : 1995

results.listIds.duration : 63

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Mama, L'Chaim!

A short documentary. The life of 62-year-old Chaim Lubelski, who lives with his 95-year-old mother in a one-bedroom apartment in a Jewish residential home for the elderly. Chaim’s mother, Nechama, was born in Poland and survived the Nazi concentration camps. Her parents and her first husband were killed in Auschwitz. After the war, she and her second husband, Wolf, also a concentration camp survivor, wanted to emigrate to America, but they were denied because of Wolf’s tuberculosis and forced to stay in Germany. Chaim made it his mission in life to care for them as they got older.

results.listIds.director : Elkan Spiller

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 6

results.listIds.lang : English, German

Leningrad Ленингра́д

A feature film. It is 1941, and World War II rages on; the Nazis succeeded in taking over half of Europe and part of Russia until they reached Leningrad. Hitler fails to take Leningrad after a four-month-long offensive in 1941. Hitler realizes that Leningrad could not be taken by force, and now he will surround the city for three years, and starve three million people to death. In the midst of this horrific siege, a young English journalist,, finds herself among surviving Russians within the famished city of Leningrad.

results.listIds.director : Alexander Buravsky

results.listIds.year : 2007

results.listIds.duration : 110

results.listIds.lang : English, German, Russian

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

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