Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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This humorous and intimate account of the Jewish immigrants who arrived in England – thinking that they’d arrived in America – charts their rags to riches story from the ghettos of Eastern Europe to the self-made empires of Marks & Spencer, Burton’s Clothing and countless more. Combining drama with documentary, a 19th Century Russian Jew searches the City of Leeds for a people that have since moved on. Having moved up the social ladder and out of the city slums, younger generations of Leeds Jews moved away, married out and forgot where they came from. A tale of cat and mouse between present and past, we are...

results.listIds.director : Simon Glass

results.listIds.year : 2011

results.listIds.duration : 69

results.listIds.lang : English, Yiddish

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2012 - Yehuda Widawski

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2011 "My Brother's Keeper - Jewish Solidarity During the Holocaust". Torchlighter Yehuda Widawski. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

results.listIds.year : 2012

results.listIds.duration : 3

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew