Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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A feature film. This movie tells the story of the members of a Jewish family who flee the Germans and end up hiding in the country . Unfortunately, the Gestapo finds them and they are sent to a concentration camp. The film then leaps ahead to 1985 where the daughter of the couple begins believing that her dead brother has been reincarnated as a famed pianist. She feels this is so because both of them love Rachmaninoff's "Concerto No. 2".

results.listIds.director : Claude Lelouch

results.listIds.year : 1985

results.listIds.duration : 114

results.listIds.lang : French

Sie Sind Frei, Doktor Korczak

A feature film telling the story of the prominent pediatrician and educator Dr. Janusz Korczak. Dr. Korczack does everything in his power to maintain the dignity of the 200 children in his progressive orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto, despite the hopelessness of their situation. Eyewitnesses have testified that an SS Officer exchanged words with Korczak as he escorted the children to the trains that deported them to their death in Treblinka. Whether or not the Germans were offering him his freedom, Korczak chose to accompany the children and to die together with them.

results.listIds.director : Alexander Ford

results.listIds.year : 1973

results.listIds.duration : 90

results.listIds.lang : German

Out of the Ashes

Drama based on the true story of Dr. Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian gynecologist who was incarcerated at Auschwitz during the Second World War. The story of Perl is told in flashbacks while she is being interrogated by the American Immigration Panel as a result of her application for American citizenship after the war. She is forced to deal with accusations of cooperating with the Nazis because she worked as a gynecologist in the camp. Winner of the Emmy for Best Cinematography for a television film or mini series.

results.listIds.director : Joseph Sargent

results.listIds.year : 2003

results.listIds.duration : 113

results.listIds.lang : English

Adaptation to darkness

A documentary. The story of Edwin Katzen Ellenbogen, the only Jew who was concvicted in war crimes in Buchenwald concentration camp. He was a pioneer of psychiatric research but also a con artist who became the only Jew in history convicted of Nazi war crimes. The film traces his journey from a small town in Galicia to a career as a psychiatrist in the United States of America. His actions in the Buchenwald concentration camp led him to stand trial as a Nazi war criminal. Katzen Ellenbogen's story is an allegory of how individuals adapt to moral darkness and the ways they find to thrive and blossom in the...

results.listIds.director : Shay Fogelman

results.listIds.year : 2024

results.listIds.duration : 85

results.listIds.lang : English, German, Hebrew

Outsider. Freud

A documentary. Chapter 19 in "The Hebrew" project, in "Kann 11". A journey into the life and work of Sigmund Freud in four acts, combining animation, dreams, and insights from leading psychoanalysts. It explores Freud's experiences of marginalization as a Jew in Vienna during Hitler's rise and how these shaped his theories and personal life. Through an intimate lens, the film reveals new dimensions of Freud's legacy, focusing on his impact on psychoanalysis, Judaism, and the power dynamics of being an outsider.

results.listIds.director : Yair Qedar

results.listIds.year : 2024

results.listIds.duration : 66

results.listIds.lang : English, French, Hebrew

Auschwitz - surviving hell - episode 3 - liberation

A docu-drama serirs. n 1944, the Wehrmacht is retreating on all fronts. But the murders continue in Auschwitz. A race against time begins for the lovers Helen Spitzer and David Wisnia.

results.listIds.director : Katarina Schickling

results.listIds.year : 2024

results.listIds.duration : 46

results.listIds.lang : English, German

Litzmannstadt – gehenna polskich dzieci. Doktor Emil Vogl – na ratunek dzieciom

סרט תיעודי. סיפורו של ד"ר אמיל פוגל. רופא יהודי גרמני שפעל בפראג. במרץ 1941 , גורש ד"ר פוגל עם אשתו הרופאה, ד"ר הילדגרג פוגל, ואמה, לגטו לודז'. שם הוצב כרופא אסיר במחנה הצוענים. הוא שרד את מגיפת הטיפוס שפשטה במחנה. ד"ר פוגל בלם מגיפות בהיותו רופא במחנה הילדים בגטו לודז'. לאחר מכן גורש לחחלמנו, לאושוויץ ולמחנות נוספים בטרם שוחרר. לאחר השחרור פעל ד"ר פוגל

results.listIds.director : Pełki-Wolsztajn, Katarrzyna

results.listIds.year : 2024

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Survival of a Spirit

סרט תיעודי משולב אנימציה.

results.listIds.director : Patricia Bury Salier

results.listIds.year : 2022

results.listIds.duration : 51

results.listIds.lang : English

Nobody Told Me

A short documentary. The fate of Dr Halina Szenicer-Rotstein . A Polish-Jewish doctor, Halina worked in the Warsaw Ghetto treating patients until she was deported to Treblinka and murdered there on the 12th of September 1942. The story is told through the eyes of Halina’s daughter, Wanda Albinska, who survived the Holocaust along with her three siblings. They were saved by: Dr. Andrzej Trojanowski , Stenia Trojanowski Halina Szenicer Dr. Janina Radlińska, whome were recognised by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.

results.listIds.director : Sean O'sullivan

results.listIds.year : 2019

results.listIds.duration : 28

results.listIds.lang : English

Lucie Adelsberger

סרט תיעודי קצר. מתוך סדרת סרטים תיעודיים במסגרת פרוייקט Denk mal am Ort. פרוייקט המנציח שמותיהם של משפחות יהודיות שנרצחו על ידי הנאצים. הפרוייקט מציג את הדיירים הנוכחיים המתגוררים בבניינים שם גרו משפחות יהודיות.

results.listIds.director : Marie Rolshoven

results.listIds.year : 2021

results.listIds.duration : 10

results.listIds.lang : German

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