Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Unveiling Ceremony of the Memorial for the Martyrs from Kamenets-Podolsk

טקס גילוי מצבות לזכרם יהודי הונגריה ואוקראינה שנטבחו בעיר קמנץ-פודולסקי.

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 65

Language : Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian

But Who Could I Pray For? - The Story of Avraham Aviel

Avraham Aviel (Lipkonsky), born in 1929 in Dowgalishok, Poland. On 10 May 1942, Aviel and his family were taken together with the Jews of Radun (the village of the Rabbinic leader, the Chafetz Chaim) and the surrounding areas to be murdered in killing pits. His mother and brother Yekutiel (Koshka) were among those executed. Avraham and his brother Pinchas managed to escape. To Aviel’s great sorrow, Pinchas, who had survived the mass murder, was killed before his eyes while hiding in the Dowgalishok area. Avraham and his father found refuge with a Polish farmer, before he joined the partisans in 1943. That...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 58

Language : Hebrew

Forgotten Transports to Estonia

Documentary about the lesser known transports of the Czechoslovakian Jews to the concentration camps in Estonia. The testimonies of the survivors are complemented by the unique archive material.

Director : Lukáš Přibyl

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 85

Language : Czech, Russian

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 1995 - Yehudit Arnon

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 1995. Torchlighter Yehudit Arnon. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

The Litvak Connection

Is a documentary that depicts the role of Nazi collaborators during the Shoah who were complicit in the liquidation of Latvian and Lithuanian Jewry, i.e. the Litvak population, as well as their connection to present day war crimes issues.

Director : Richard Bloom, Karen Lynne

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 31

Language : English

One Day You'll Understand

To be translated

Director : Amos Gitai

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 89

Language : French

Maly Trostinec

Through eye-witness testimonies and archival footages, this documentary tells the story of Maly Trostinec, camp and site of mass murder, (12 km) southeast of Minsk, Belorussia. The camp existed since November 41 solely for the purpose of killing and appropriating the remaining possessions of the victims. The camp served as a killing site for the Jews of Minsk and the surrounding area and tens of thousands of Jews from other European countries. Many thousands of Byelorussian civilians, Byelorussian partisans and, most of all, Soviet POWs, were murdered at Maly Trostinec as well. The murder was committed by...

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 30

The Forest Of Death of Zeithain

Discovery of mass graves of Soviet prisoners of war of the camps near Zeithain.

Director : Richard Groschopp

Production Year : 1946

Duration : 12

Language : German

Babiy Yar - The Forgotten Crime

Drama taking place on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Kiev in 1941. Two families - Jewish and Ukrainian ponder what the future may hold for them. Genady Lerner a Jew and the patriarch of a relatively large extended family, watches with profoundly mixed emotions as the Russian army retreats from the Ukrainian city under intense bombardment from the advancing Nazi army. Skeptical of the rumors abounding regarding the Nazis' extermination of the Jewish race, Genady opts to remain at the family home. Meanwhile, Genady's longtime neighbor Lena Onofrienko decides that assisting the invading army may be in her best...

Director : Jeff Kanew

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 108

Language : German

Out of the Forest

Documentary about Punar, a memorial in a forest near Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) where between 70 and 100 thousand people were shot during the Second World War, most of them Jews. Filmed in Punar and based on the testimonies of survivors and the diary of Kazimierz Sakowicz, a Polish journalist who lived in Punar during the time of the Nazi occupation and who was killed in the last days of the war. His diary was found by Dr Rachel Margolis, a Holocaust researcher from Vilna, who participates in the film. Some of the witnesses in the film miraculously survived the shootings and crawled out from under the pile of...

Director : לימור פנחסוב בן-יוסף, ירון כפתורי בן-יוסף

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 93

Language : Hebrew, Russian

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