Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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A feature film. The story of John Rabe. Rabe was manager of Siemens China when the Japanese attacked the then capital Nanjing in 1937. Appalled by events and driven by simple humanitarian concerns, Rabe helped create a safety zone that’s said to have saved the lives of around 200,000 people.

Director : Florian Gallenberger

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 134

Language : Chinese, English, German, Japanese

Hrror in the East - Part Two – Death Before Surrender

During the years leading up to World War II, the citizens of Japan were encouraged to look upon their Emperor as a god. This divine loyalty to their leader was transferred to the battlefield, where soldiers and Kamikaze pilots were willing to fight to the death rather than face defeat or capture. As the allies gained the upper hand, the self-destructive tactics of the Japanese grew more extreme.

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 48

Language : English, Japanese

Hrror in the East - Part One – Turning Against the West

סדרת דוקו דרמה של הBBC. During the First World War, POWs in Japan were treated remarkably well. What happened in the intervening years that led the nation to commit such inhumane atrocities in World War II? This series probes the Japanese belief at the time of racial superiority and the mentality that drove Kamikaze fighters. Newly unearthed archive material reveals horrific stories involving cannibalism and crucifixion.

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 46

Language : English

Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking

דוקו דרמה. About a young Chinese-American author's journey into the darkest reaches of humanity as she researched and wrote her best selling book "The Rape of Nanking". Iris Chang's harrowing experience and dogged determination uncovers in graphic detail the forgotten holocaust of World War II when almost 300,000 Chinese women, children and soldiers were in a matter of weeks systematically raped, tortured and murdered by the invading Japanese forces

Director : Anne Pick, William Spahic

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 103

Language : Chinese, English

Harbor From the Holocaust

A Documentary. The film explores the relationship of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution and their adopted city of Shanghai. Nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, to the Chinese port city of Shanghai. They developed an extraordinary relationship with their adopted city of Shanghai, even through the bitter years of Japanese occupation 1937-1945 and the Chinese civil war that followed.

Director : Violet Du Feng

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 57

Language : English

300000 Victims Never Forget - Historical Facts on the Nanjing Massacre Committed by the Invading Japanese Troops - part 2

Duration : 31

Language : Chinese

300000 Victims Never Forget - Historical Facts on the Nanjing Massacre Committed by the Invading Japanese Troops - part 1

Duration : 17

Language : Chinese

מלך עכברוש

A feature film. When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied P.O.W.s, mostly British, but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a P.O.W. camp like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences, for the simple reason that there was no place for the prisoners to which to escape. Included among the prisoners is the American Corporal King who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. While most of the prisoners are near starvation and have uniforms that are in tatters, King eats well and and has crisp clean clothes to wear every...

Director : Bryan Forbes

Production Year : 1965

Duration : 134

Language : English

Above The Drowning Sea

This documentary tells the true story of Jews from Vienna who found refuge from the Nazis in Shanghai. Due to the heroic efforts of Ho Feng Shan, the Chinese diplomat based in Vienna, thousands of Jews were granted visas to China thus saving them from the claws of the Nazis. The film depicts the struggles and harsh policies the Jews were enduring in Europe, their endless pleas to find refuge, arriving in a new and strange country and the everlasting bond and total gratitude tens of thousands of Jews owe to China and its people. The film uses the Jewish refugee crisis of the 1930's and 40's to address the growing...

Director : Rene Balcer, Nicola Zavaglia

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 88

Language : English

The Wounds of 228

דרמה תיעודית המספרת את הטבח שנעשה בטיוואן, ב28 בפברואר 1947. הסרט נקרא 'פצעי 228' על שם התאריך והחודש בו התרחש האירועים. לאחר סיום מלחמת העולם השנייה, והשחרור מעול הקולויאליזם היפני, היתה תקווה בטיוואן לשינוי. נשיא המדינה אז צ'אנג קאי שק דיכא באכזריות את מתנגדיו. הוא עשה זאת בעזרת תגבורת של חיילים סיניים. הכל החל בעימות של השלטונות עם רוכלות סיגריות. אחת מהן הוכתה למוות בקת אקדח ואז פרצו מהומות שדוכאו באכזריות. כ70 שנה לאחר מכן התנצל נשיא טייוואן , ופיצויים שולמו למשפחות הקורבנות.

Duration : 50

Language : Chinese