Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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This episode in the BBC documentary series "Gladiators of WW2" focuses on the 7th Armoured Division of the British Army, known as 'The Desert Rats'. Originally formed as 'Mobile Division' in Egypt following the Suez Canal opening in 1904, it was meant to increase British strength in the area. On 16.2.40, the Mobile Division became the 7th Armoured Division. The Desert Rat divisional flash was adopted about the same time. It originated from a sketch of a jerboa drawn by the divisional commander's wife after a visit to the Cairo Zoo. After the Italian declaration of war, the 'Rats' took part in most of the major...

Director : Charles Messenger

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 48

Language : English

Recollections - Include 5 sections: Beginings, Loss, Choices, Belief, Afterwards: Message to the Future

Documentary presenting testimonies by survivors, Jews, gypsies, political prisoners and Jehovah witnesses.

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 80

Language : English

Marianne's Story

This documentary tells the story of Marian Herman (Marianne (Mausi) Hermann Grant), a Holocaust survivor, who is today a painter whose works express her harsh memories from the Holocaust. Herman, resident of Glasgow, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Following the Nazi occupation she was deported to Terezin Ghetto (April 1942) and from there to Auschwitz for seven months (from December 1943), then to Neuengamme and finally to Bergen Belsen (July 1944) where she stayed till the liberation by British forces on April 15, 1945. After the war she married a German Jew, moved to Sweden and then to Scotland. Including...

Director : Rex Bloomstein

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 34

Language : English

Notes of life - the story of Hilde (Grunbaum) Zimche

A short documentary. The story of Holocaust Survivor Hilde (Grünbaum) Zimche. Hilde was born in Berlin, Germany. During the Holocaust Hilde was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was a member of the women’s orchestra. She was later sent to Bergen-Belsen, where she was eventually liberated.

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 20

Language : Hebrew

כיצד בונים עתיד? - השחרור ובניית חיים חדשים

סרט תיעודי קצר.

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

מייק, לי וסיפור על אמא

סרט תיעודי קצר.

Director : טלי נתיב עירוני, מיקי שמר

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 20

Language : Hebrew

The Tin Ring Theatre

A play. The story of Zdenka Fantlova, a Holocaust survivor. She was born in the Czech Republic, in 1922. Her life was turned upside-down with the outbreak of World War Two and the subsequent German invasion of her homeland. The enforcement of the Nuremburg rules – the separation of the Jews from the Czechs – meant that she was required to wear a yellow star on her left side at all times. Her schooling taken away from her, she begged her father to allow her to go to Prague to learn English. Despite being taken to six different concentration camps throughout the war, she survived, keeping her tin engagement...

Director : Mike Alfreds

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 59

We Shall Not Die Now

סרט דוקומנטרי מאת אשטון גליקמן. הסרט מגולל את סיפורם של למעלה מעשרים וחמישה ניצולים, משחררים ומלומדים, וקטעי תמונות מאתרי המחנות בפולין, כולל אושוויץ וטרבלינקה.

Director : Ashton Gleckman

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 151

Language : German

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A short Documentary movie which tells the stories of Staten Islands's Holocaust survivors comunity. In the film there are first-person testimonies of Staten Island’s Holocaust survivors. It traces the Holocaust through ten of the survivors’ personal recollections, The range of experiences — every one both heartbreaking and heroic — include surviving concentration camps, living under assumed identities and battling starvation while hiding for months in an attic. The film won the Staten Island Advance’s Emmy Award

Director : Shira Stoll

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 28

Language : English