Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2003 - Denise Siekierski

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2003. Torchlighter Denise Siekierski. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

The Stalking of the Red Poster

In mid-November 1943, the French Vichy police arrested 23 Resistance members of the "Manouchian Group", called after its commander, Missak Manouchian. 11 of them were Jews. On 21.2.1944, after 3 months of tortures, the 23 were tried and executed. In the spring of 1944, the Vichy and German authorities printed an estimated 15,000 copies of a propaganda poster called Affiche Rouge ("Red Poster") which claimed that the resistance was headed by foreigners, Jews, unemployed people and criminals who conspirated against French life and the sovereignty of France. The campaign, however, seemd to have had the opposite...

Director : Jorge Amat

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 124

Language : French

Underground Rescue Activity - France and Hungary

Documentary film that brings the testimony of men of the underground rescue in Hungary and France about border smuggling, passing information and hiding children. The film makes use of photographs and documents and maps.

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 6

Language : Hebrew

ילדות במסתור

סרט תיעודי קצר משולב אנימציה. ברט בדיחי נולדה בעיר ליון שבצרפת בשנת 1932. לאחר כיבוש צרפת על ידי גרמניה ביוני 1940 והסכנה למעצר וגירוש יהודים מצרפת, הועברה ברט למקום מסתור בביתה של מאדאם מסונה, שם חיה בזהות בדויה עד לסוף המלחמה. מאדאם מסונה הוכרה לאחר המלחמה על מעשה זה כחסידת אומות העולם.

Director : דניאלה בוקור

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 14

Language : Hebrew

Resistance

A feature film. Before he was the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. This film tells the story of heroes who put themselves in harm’s way to rise above hatred and oppression during World War II. As a young man growing up in Nazi-occupied Europe, Marcel has no intention of getting involved in the war . His life is thrown into upheaval when he is recruited into the French Resistance, putting his acting skills to the ultimate test in teaching orphaned Jewish...

Director : Jonathan Jakubowicz

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 117

Language : English, German

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2012 - Eliezer Lev-Zion

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 Eliezer Lev-Zion. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew