Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Documentary about Kazimierz Piechowski - the organizer of the most daring escape from Auschwitz. For belonging to the Army was also imprisoned by the authorities after the war. Story of an ordinary man who became the victim of two totalitarian systems: Nazism and communism.

results.listIds.director : Marek Tomasz Pawłowski

results.listIds.year : 2006

results.listIds.duration : 56

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Kapò

This 1959 Italian-French co-production tells the story of Jewish 14-year-old Edith (Susan Strasberg) that is deported with her parents a Nazi concentration camp, where the latter are murdered. Sofia (Didi Perego), an older, political prisoner, and a kindly camp doctor save her from a similar fate by giving her a new, non-Jewish identity, that of the newly dead Nichole Niepas. As time goes by, she becomes more toughened to the brutal life and a fraternization with a guard, Karl (Gianni Garko), helps her become a kapo. She thrives while the idealistic Sofia grows steadily weaker. When she falls in love with Sascha...

results.listIds.director : Gillo Pontecorvo

results.listIds.year : 1959

results.listIds.duration : 112

results.listIds.lang : French, Italian

Wahl und Schicksal

Made by Israeli film director, Tsipi Reibenbach - Grinberg, "Wahl und Schicksal" tells the story of her parents, Yitzhak and Fruma Grinberg, both survivals, and is dedicated to them.

results.listIds.director : Tsipi Reibenbach - Grinberg

results.listIds.year : 1995

results.listIds.duration : 112

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Yiddish

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...

results.listIds.director : Marvin J. Chomsky

results.listIds.year : 1978

results.listIds.duration : 153

results.listIds.lang : English

שואה - סיפורה של משפחת וייס, פרקים 2 ו- 3: הדרך לבאבי יאר, הפתרון הסופי

Second and third parts 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...

results.listIds.director : Marvin J. Chomsky

results.listIds.year : 1978

results.listIds.duration : 140

results.listIds.lang : English

שואה - סיפורה של משפחת וייס, פרק 1: החשיכה המתקרבת

Part 1 of an 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 viewers....

results.listIds.director : Marvin J. Chomsky

results.listIds.year : 1978

results.listIds.duration : 140

results.listIds.lang : English

Night and Fog

This film is among the first documentary films about the Holocaust and one of the best known in the field of Holocaust cinema. Through an integration of archival films of the Nazi concentration camps and color photographs of the camps and their surroundings around 10 years after the war, the film presents the historical reality of the Final Solution in a direct and revelatory manner. Relative to its time "Night and Fog" was considered innovative in its universal and humanistic approach and it served as a source of inspiration for many documentary films about the Holocaust.

results.listIds.director : Alain Resnais

results.listIds.year : 1955

results.listIds.duration : 29

results.listIds.lang : French

Kapo

The documentary explores the phenomenon known as “Kapo”, the inmate functionaries who were selected by the Germans to be responsible other inmates tasks in the Nazi concentration camps. Shot in four countries: Israel, Germany, Poland and Australia, “Kapo” was the first Israeli film to be awarded the “Emmy” Award as the best documentary for the year 2000.

results.listIds.director : Tor Ben Mayor, Dan Setton

results.listIds.year : 1999

results.listIds.duration : 53

results.listIds.lang : English, Hebrew

Soda

A feature film. In 1956, a seamstress arrives in a Holocaust survivor community. Rumors surface about her past as Capo. Shalom, resistance fighter, torn between attraction and duty to expose her history. Community tensions rise over her true identity. Based on the true story of the director's family

results.listIds.director : Erez Tadmor

results.listIds.year : 2024

results.listIds.duration : 96

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

אמילי והפרופסור - על בתי דין שבהם נידונו משתפי פעולה עם הנאצים

כתבת רדיו. מתוך התוכנית

results.listIds.year : 2020

results.listIds.duration : 12

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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