Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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A Day In The Warsaw Ghetto - A Birthday Trip In Hell

A documentary film. At the outbreak of World War II, 380,000 Jews lived in Warsaw, about a third of the city's population. In the fall of 1940, the the Germans transferred them to the ghetto. On November 19, 1982, Günther Schwarberg, the editor of the German magazine "Der Stern" was invited to the home of an 84-year-old man, from whom he received a yellowing envelope with 140 negatives of photos he had taken 41 years earlier, during World War II. This man was Heinz Jost. who took pictures at the ghetto . The film combines archive footage, photographs by Joest, and excerpts from the diaries of Emmanuel...

Director : Jack Kuper

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 30

Language : English

My Lodz No Longer Exists - The story of Yosef Neuhaus

Summary: Documentary film. This film chronicles the Jewish community in Lodz, Poland, through the story of Yosef Neuhaus. Yosef was born in Lodz in 1924, to Tova-Yona and Zvi Hirsch. In May 1940, he was forced to enter the Lodz ghetto along with his parents and younger sister Zofia, where they lived for four years until their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau. All of Yosef’s family members were murdered in that camp. Yosef survived and was then imprisoned in several other camps. In...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 41

Language : Hebrew

The Fatal Dilemma:The Jewish Council of Amsterdam 1941-1943

This documentary presents the story of Avraham Asher and Professor David Cohen, leaders of the Jewish community of Amsterdam on the eve of the Second World War. The two became heads of the Jewish Council in 1941 and were tools in the hands of the Nazis for helping evict Jews and sending them to concentration camps.

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 60

Language : Dutch

Lodz Ghetto

Documentary film telling the story of the Lodz Ghetto, using numerous photos, excerpts from original films and readings of diaries. *Invasion of the Germans *Building the ghetto *Life in the ghetto: work - hunger - cold - diseases - dying - hangings. *Rumkowski, eldest of the Jewish council, and his questionable role *Deportations of children, old and ill persons *Evacuation of the whole ghetto *Arrival of the Russians and liberation of those who were hidden *Following the film information about those who wrote the diaries and took *Pictures in the...

Director : Kathryn Taverna, Alen Adelson

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 118

Language : English

The Lodz Ghetto - The Weaving Workshop Album

This documentary is one of a series of two films comprising sections from beautifully designed albums documenting the achievements of slave laborers in the Lodz Ghetto. The albums were presented as gifts to Mordechai Rumkowski, the Chairman of the Lodz Judenrat.This particular film deals with the Lodz Ghetto’s textile factory.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 4

Language : Silent Film

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Final part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Liberation and Revenge’ completes the history of Auschwitz. As the end of the war approached, Auschwitz officers tried to hide the evidence of their crimes but were not completely successful. After liberation, survivors searched for their family and tried to return to their prewar homes, but former communities and neighbors did not always welcome them. As evidence of war crimes emerged, some senior SS officers were tried and convicted; others were allowed to resume their lives. Over 4 years, 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz and 1.1 million people died...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Fifth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Murder and Intrigue’ explores the web of international politics spun during the last nine months of 1944. By that spring, the Allies knew about Auschwitz and had the military capability to bomb it. Yet despite the pleas of Jewish leaders, the British and Americans decided not to bomb the railways or gas chambers. During the spring and summer, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz at a time when the killing machinery had been honed to perfection. That autumn saw a significant act of resistance in Auschwitz, when a group of Jewish...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Forth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Corruption’ reveals why Auschwitz was unique in the Nazi state as the only site that was both a concentration and an extermination camp. The reason was simple-money. At Auschwitz, the Nazis wanted to kill "useless mouths" instantly and work stronger prisoners to death as slave laborers in places like the nearby IG Farben factory. Meanwhile, the SS profited from the belongings of those they killed-so much so, that in the summer of 1943, an investigation was launched into corruption in the camp and the commandant was removed. Elsewhere, individuals and nations are...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution, part 3: Factories of Death.

Third part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Factories of Death’ examines the annihilation system that the Nazis spread throughout Europe, with Auschwitz as the hub. It tells why the first transport of Jewish men, women, and children interred at Drancy, outside Paris, were transported to Auschwitz in March 1942 and what happened to the children who were rounded up without their parents. Genocide is being perpetrated not only at Auschwitz, but also at other camps, such as Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor. In the final segment, Linda Ellerbee talks with Deborah Dwork, Rose Prof. of Holocaust History at Clark...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Second part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Orders and Initiatives’ highlights the crucial decision-making period of the Holocaust, encompassing the secret plans of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Reinhard Heydrich. At a conference at Wannsee in January 1942, the participants work toward finalizing their goal-the systematic genocide of an entire people. The first gas chambers are built at Auschwitz and the use of Zyklon B is developed. German doctors arrive to oversee each transport, deciding who should live and who should die. In the final segment, Linda Ellerbee talks with Claudia Koonz, prof. of...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

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