Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Poltawa, Ukraine, beginning of the 1940s, days before the German invasion. Three children, German Hanna, and Jewish Larissa and Abrascha, are best friends and classical music virtuosos; when the War reaches Poltawa, their friendship is put to the test. The young musicians see only one way out: to help each other and to win over the adults by using their musical ability. When a German official comes to town, he suggests that Larissa and Abrascha perform a concert; if they play perfectly, their lives will be spared, if they make a mistake, they will be deported….

Director : Markus Rosenmüller

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 100

Language : German

The American Jewish Composers in Classical Song

A Dudele (A Little Song) – Arr. Leo Low / Text and music: attrib. Reb Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev Sabbath Song – A.W. Binder / Text: Traditional, liturgy Hath not a Jew eyes? The Merchant of Venice, Act II – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco / Text: Shakespeare (First U.S. Performance; first recording) A Petition to the Governor – John Corigliano / Text: William M. Hoffman (World Premiere; first recording) Kol Kara (A Voice Called) – Max Helfman / Poetry: Hannah Senesh Cantare from Sh’ma – Simon Sargon / Poetry: Primo Levi (World Premiere, piano version; first recording) Cartload of...

Director : Regina Resnik

Production Year : 2011

Language : English

Am Grossen Wannsee - The Wannsee Recordings

In this documentary, Israeli and German musicians perform the works of Jewish composers as well as others at the villa where infamous Wannsee conference took place.

Director : Emre Amram Sonmez

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 81

Language : English, German, Hebrew

קונצרט מחווה לכליזמר האחרון מגליציה - לאופולד קוזלובסקי

לאופולד קוזלובסקי, אחרון הכליזמרים מהתקופה שלפני המלחמה בפולין ומי שנשאר בפולין והפך להיות האיש ששומר, מחייה ומשמר את מוסיקת הכליזמר היהודית, הגיע לישראל ב-2007 לקונצרט מיוחד שנערך לכבודו עם תזמורת סימפונט רעננה בשיתוף הרשות הלאומית לתרבות יידיש, שגרירות פולין בישראל ואגודת ידידות ישראל- פולין.

Director : ניב הופמן

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 132

Language : Hebrew

My Heaven is Full of Music - The Israeli Composer Ella Milch-Sheriff

סרט תיעודי על מלחינה ישראלית אלה מילך-שריף, עם דגש מיוחד על האופרה שלה "שתיקתו של ברוך" שמבוססת על יומנים של אביה, ניצול שואה, ברוך מילך.

Director : Aneta Panek

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 29

Language : German

Concert of Jewish Liturgical Music 5770

Concert of Jewish liturgical music “5770”, devoted to the Jewish New 5770 year took place on September 10, 2009 in Latvian National Opera. Participants: male's choir "Balsis" with program "Melodies of the Burned Synagogues" (art director Z. Shulman), choir "Hassidic Capella", conductor A. Tsalyuk, cantor of Riga Choral Synagogue Zeev Shulman, soloists of the Bolshoy Theater, Liepaja Symphonic Orchestra. In the program - Jewish cantors’ music, fragments from operas, popular Jewish songs. Among more than 1 200 visitors there were representatives of Daugavpils, Liepaja, Rezekne, Jekabpils, as well as...

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 120

Language : Latvian, Russian

Es Steht mir zu, zu Leben

עדותה של Esther Bejarno שהיתה באושוויץ וברבנסברוק

Director : Lorreta Walz

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 30

Language : German

The Last Klezmer: Leopold Kozlowski, His Life and Music

Yale Strom traveled to Eastern Europe to search for remnants of klezmer music (Jewish folk melodies) that survived the Holocaust such as recordings, sheet music and klezmer musicians. In this program he interviews and travels with Leopold Kozlowski, the last klezmer, who grew up in the tradition. Special mention, Ecumenical Jury Prize, Berlin Film Festival.

Director : Yale Storm

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 84

Language : English, Polish, Russian, Yiddish

Brundibar

A new performance of "Brundibar", the children's opera by Hans Krasa and Adolf Hoffmeister which was performed by the children Theresienstadt Ghetto.

Director : Volker Kuehn

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 42

Language : Czech, German

The Central Commission for Children

הופעת יחיד של David Lescot ששר את שיריו על ילדותו כנער יהודי שבילה את חופשותיו במחנות קיץ של וועד הילדים המרכזי Commission Centrale de l’Enfance (CCE) שהוקם ע"י קומוניסטים יהודים בזמן מלחמת העולם השניה.

Director : Alain Braun, Alain Dassé

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 57

Language : French

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