Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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In 1987, in a Viennese antique shop, a few hundred colour slides were found. The slides documented the life in Lodz Ghetto. Through this slides collection, Arnold Mostowicz, survivor that who was Jewish physician in the ghetto, tells his memories.

Director : Dariusz Jablonski

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 71

Language : German, Polish, Yiddish

Baruch's Silence

האופרה מספרת את סיפור חייה של המלחינה המבוסס על יומנו של אביה אותו כתב בשנת 1943. הבת חוזרת לבית הוריה המתים בעקבות צוואה שהותיר אביה ומפענחת בפעם הראשונה בחייה את הסוד האפל העומד מאחורי שתיקתו הארוכה של האב והתנהגותה הבלתי יציבה של האם. הבת שומעת לראשונה על קיומו של אח שמעולם לא ידעה עליו וכן על כל בני המשפחה המתים שהפכו לרוחות שליוו את הוריה ואותה לאורך חייהם שאת קיומם חשה אבל מעולם לא ידעה את סיפורם. גילויים אלה שופכים אור חדש על ילדותה הקודרת ונותנים לה אפשרות לפתוח דף חדש ביחסה להוריה המתים. הבמאית והמחזאית יעל רונן ביססה את הטקסט על יומנו של ברוך מילך, אביה של המלחינה, ועל סיפוריה של המלחינה...

Director : עידו ריקלין

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 102

Language : German

The Oppermans, Part 1

A television adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger "The Oppermann House" (Die Geschwister), co-production of the BBC and ZDF (German 2nd TV channel). The story of the Oppermanns, a Jewish-German family, owners of a big department store in Berlin of the early 30s.

Director : Egon Monk

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 104

Language : English, German

Dr. Michael Franzblau - Nazi Hunter

Director : Dan Noyes

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 18

Language : English, German

Professor Mamlyuk

Loosely based on a play by Friedrich Wolfe. The picture features the social insight of a German doctor and scientist far removed from politics under the impact of the German political events of the early 1930-s.

Director : Adolph Minkin, Gerbert Rappaport

Production Year : 1938

Duration : 105

Language : Russian

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.

Director : Alexander Ford

Production Year : 1973

Duration : 90

Language : German

Timewatch: Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler

An episode in Timewatch, a BBC documentary series exploring new perspectives on historical events. This episode deals with the psychological analysis of Adolf Hitler made in 1943 by Walter Langer, an expert of the CIA, and a team of psychologists. The project was based on an in-depth inquiry and was meant to draw a complete useful psychological profile of the German dictator and would assist the Allies in their attempts to predict Hitler’s next steps. The newfangled work of Langer and his team paved the way to a new discipline in international relations called Political Psychology. The analysis, based on Freud’s...

Director : David Stewart

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

One, That Was Missing Us - David Ernst Oppenheim 1881-1943

Through the story of David Oppenheim, a Jewish Austrian scholar, a collaborator then critic of Freud and participant in Viennese psychoanalytic circles that died in Theresienstadt, this documentary tells of the tragedy of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust.

Director : Johanna Peltner-Rambeck

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 42

Language : German

Paula Paulinka

Paula Lindberg Salomon was the stepmother of the renowned artist Charlotte Salomon who perished in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Paula Lindberg Salomon, one of Germany’s greatest classical singers, and Charlotte's father Albert, an eminent Berlin physician, fled to Holland and were eventually rounded up but managed to escape by a twist of fate. This documentary from 1995 features the then 98-year old Lindberg Salomon lucidly recalling the amazing events of her life.

Director : Christine Fischer Defoy, Daniela Schmidt

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 58 60

Language : German

Holocaust - The Story of the Family Weiss, part 4: The Saving Remnant

Forth part of Emmy Award-winning TV miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network. It tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the Weiss family of German Jews, and from the point of view of a German family where the husband is a rising SS member, who gradually becomes a merciless, bloodthirsty war criminal. Holocaust highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the creation of Jewish ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers. The series ultimately attempted to portray the atrocity of this genocide to...

Director : Marvin J. Chomsky

Production Year : 1978

Duration : 153

Language : English

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