Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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סרט תיעודי על טרזין. כולל עדויות של ניצולי שואה, איורים של ילדי טרזין ופטר גנץ בפרט.

Duration : 108

Language : Japanese

On the morning of her wedding day, Ellis receives a package in the mail. It contains a diary kept by the first love of her life, Bernie, during his time underground in World War II. When Bernie did not return, Ellis married another man and moved with him to Palestine. She kept the diary hidden for 65 years until her historian daughter prevailed upon her to read it and try to find out what happened to Bernie. This gripping documentary is a combination detective story and love saga.

Director : יסמין נובק

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 54

Language : Dutch, English, Hebrew

The World Was Ours - The Jewish Legacy of Vilna

This documentary looks at pre-war Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania) the former home of 60,000 Jews and the once thriving centre of Yiddish culture, the birthplace of Zionism and of the socialist Jewish Bund organization. The film focuses on the systematic extermination of Wilno'ss Jewish population. Narrated by Hollywood’s Mandy Patinkin.

Director : Mira Jedwabnik-Van Doren

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 60

Language : English

The Red Book

A short documentary film edited as an audio-visual presentation with musical score (no narration) of photographs and letters of children rescued by the OSE - an organization for the health of the Jews and aid to children. The film was produced as a gift to Gaby Wolf-Cohen (Niny) on her 50th anniversary.

Director : Alain Braun

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 19

Language : Silent Film

Fate Did Not Let Me Go - A Mother Farwell To Her Son

Documentary film focussing on the last letter Valli Ollendorf wrote to her son Ulrich on 24.8.42, shortly before her death in the Terezin concentration camp during World War 2. The letter was lost for 50 years, and only reached Ulrich in 1985, when he was already 79 years old. The letter's expression of love and devotion, its encouragement to believe in the human spirit and to live a life inspired by love even in hard times, touched the hearts of the family members who realized that this was more than just a personal letter. After Ulrich's death, the family consulted with a rabbi, and finally decided to publish...

Director : Jakov Sedlar

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 25

Language : English, Serbian-Croatian

Resonance

The Israeli artist Uri Zaig designed this space in which his video-art installation is displayed. The work employs authentic hand-written documents that survived the Holocaust, including quotations by survivors expressing the resilience of the human spirit as expressed through personal hopes and dreams. Original music accompanies the piece.

Director : Uri Tzaig

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 10

Language : Musical Score

Exposition Gare St Lazare

This television report takes place in a train station in France and deals with the subject of children who were sent to the camps by train. An interview with Serge Klarsfeld and Edouard Drommelschlager follows the report.

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 37

Language : French

The Crow

This French wartime drama tells the story of a community somewhere in France which is stirred to suspicions by a flood of letters from an unknown "poison pen". The series of letters spreads rumors, suspicion and fear among the inhabitants and one after another, they turn on each other as their hidden secrets are unveiled - but the one secret that no-one can uncover is the identity of the letters' author.

Director : Henri-Georges Clouzot

Production Year : 1943

Duration : 91

Language : French

Letters and Poscards from Nazi Lagers from Italy and the Alps Region

The idea of this exhibition was born from the editors with the survivors of Nazi concentration camps and from reading the stored writings, including letters written in the camps. The documents on display are copies of tickets and postcards written in several Nazi concentration camps between the years 1933-1945, derived in part from the Italian Lager Fossoli and Bolzano concentration camp and partly from beyond the Alps. The correspondence includes letters and official tickets and illegal.

Director : Carla Giacomozzi, Giuseppe Paleari

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 28

Language : Italian

Dear Home - Letters from World War Two

During WWII the American Postal Services was inundated with letters from servicemen to their family and friends, and return mail to the servicemen. The film is based on authentic letters sent by soldiers from the various war fronts. The letters describe basic training, the fighting, friends who were injured or killed, a longing to be home, the conditions of life on the front, and hope for a quick end to the war, their return home, and plans and dreams for the future. Upon a backdrop of letters, are views from original clips taken on various fronts that document the action.

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 45

Language : English

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