Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Neither Memory Nor Magic - The Life and Times of Miklos Radnoti

In the spring of 1946, a mass grave was unearthed in the Hungarian village of Abda. Twenty-two decayed bodies were found sprawled in the pit. One of the bodies found in the grave was that of the poet Miklos Radnoti, shot into the grave by Hungarian fascists eighteen months earlier. Found in the front pocket of his coat was a small notebook soaked in his bodily fluids. It was laid out to dry in the sunlight and when examined later revealed the poets last poems carefully handwritten onto the ruled lines of the notebook. In the so-called Bor Notebook, Radnoti, through poetry, told the story of the last six months...

results.listIds.director : Hugo Perez

results.listIds.year : 2007

results.listIds.duration : 70

results.listIds.lang : English

Radnóty

results.listIds.director : Eduard Schreiber

results.listIds.year : 1985

results.listIds.duration : 16

results.listIds.lang : German, Hungarian

The Last Letter

Afeture film. . It is 1941. A Ukrainian ghetto has fallen to the Nazis and all of its Jewish residents are slated to be murdered. In the midst of the impending horror, the town’s physician, an old Jewish woman , dictates one final letter to her son, who is safe outside of enemy lines. The letter, with its detailed observations of daily life in a ghetto, reveals the fear, courage, frailty, compassion and dignity of this woman as she reviews her life and faces her death. The movie is based

results.listIds.director : Frederick Wiseman

results.listIds.year : 2002

results.listIds.duration : 62

results.listIds.lang : French

Warsaw Ghetto - Culture Without Walls

Contemporary Germany's renowned literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki served as Adam Czerniakow's (Chairman of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto) personal aide. In this documentary film comprising archival films, photographs and Reich-Ranicki's compelling testimony, we learn about cultural activity that took place in the ghetto despite the extreme conditions.

results.listIds.director : Noemi Schory

results.listIds.year : 2005

results.listIds.duration : 6

results.listIds.lang : German, Hebrew

In the Shadow of Flames - Elie Wiesel

ראיון עם אלי ויזל - Elie Wiesel, ניצול שואה וסופר זוכה פרס נובל. ויזל נולד בסיגט - Sziget שבטרנסילבניה למשפחה חסידית. גורש עם משפחתו ל- Auschwitz ולקראת סוף המלחמה שוחרר ממחנה Buchenwald. הוא לימד באוניברסיטת סורבון בפריז והיה כתב עיתונות. ב-1956 פרסם ספר זכרונות "והעולם שתק" ובו תמצת את התנסותו של אסיר מחנה ריכוז. הספר שימש בסיס לדיון על השואה ותורגם ל-18 שפות. ויזל חיבר עוד 25 רומנים העוסקים בתולדות היהודים, בקיום האנושי ומוראות השואה. הוא הדגיש תמיד את ייחוד סבל היהודים בניסוח ידוע: "לא כל הקורבנות היו יהודים, אך כל היהודים היו קורבנות". ב-1985 הוענקה לו "מדליית הקונגרס" האמריקאי וב-1986 זכה בפרס נובל לשלום.

results.listIds.director : Erwin Leiser*

results.listIds.year : 1986

results.listIds.duration : 58

results.listIds.lang : German

אדם

An animated movie. Haunted by the recent inexplicable suicide of his wife Bella, renowned Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor Adam Schumacher decides to put Bella’s story in writing and publish it as his final novel. As he is confronted with the onset of dementia, Adam reluctantly reaches out to Max Vérité, Bella’s old lover. Together the writer and his once publisher set out on a journey through their conflicting memories of Bella as they try to breathe life into her story, with all its beauty and pain. Based on Ron Segal's novel "Adin".

results.listIds.director : Ron Segal, David Nasser

results.listIds.year : 2019

results.listIds.duration : 85

results.listIds.lang : English

Simple Woman. Zelda

A Documentary film. A portrait of the first religious female poet. She published her first book of poetry at the age of 53 and became a prominent figure in the field of Hebrew literature. Niece of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, living alone in Jerusalem, writing poems of pieces of paper, surrounded by a small court of lovers and admirers. Through never-seen before archival footage and meetings with her loves and friends.

results.listIds.director : Yair Qedar

results.listIds.year : 2015

results.listIds.duration : 59

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

חוצה ישראל עם רינו צרור - אמיר גוטפרוינד

סופר,מחבר הספר "שואה שלנו".

results.listIds.year : 2009

results.listIds.duration : 24

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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