Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Documentary film that deals with Kutno, a city in the Lodz district in central Poland. Former residents of the city watch archival films that document the city in September 1939 and June 1940 and tell their stories.

Director : Agnieszka Arnold

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 29

Language : Polish

מסע אל אוגוסטו

American-born Naomi Zeavin goes back to her family's town of Augustow, Poland and organizes support from Solidarity and the Catholic clergy to build a memorial and hold a commemoration service for Augustow's Jews. A moving and inspiring journey showing what one woman can accomplish.

Director : Naomi Zeavin

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 29

Language : English

The King and the Jester

This animated musical was produced with computer-generated graphics and relates the story of the Lodz Ghetto conflict between a street singer and the Jewish king of the ghetto. This unique story of the Lodz Ghetto is extraordinary and extremely controversial. Some see the events that transpired there as heroic efforts to survive the Holocaust while others view it a horrific case of collaboration between two hundred thousand residents of the Ghetto and the Nazis. Based on chronicles hidden in a well and discovered after World War II, The film attempts to understand what occurred in the Lodz Ghetto. It is a...

Director : יוסי גודארד

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 48

Language : Hebrew

Stetl - part 2

ג'ק, ניצול שואה יליד פולין וכיום תושב ארצות הברית, חוזר לעיירת ילדותו ומבקר בחוות פולנים אשר החביאו אותו ואת אחיו בילדותם והצילו אותם מידי הנאצים, ביערות אשר שימשו לו מחבוא יחד עם בני נוער אחרים ובאזור Bialystok.

Duration : 25

Language : English, Polish

Stetl - part 1

Duration : 120

Language : English, Polish

Luboml - My Heart Remembers

Documentary film showing, through personal stories, pictures, archival photographs and re-enactments from the period, the story of Loboml. Loboml was a market town, established in the 14th Century and situated approximately eight miles from the River Bug, between Chelm and Kovel. Most of the Jewish citizens were religious and for 700 years they worked hard in order to make a living. There were periods of prosperity and periods of war and disruption. At the end of June 1941, with the outbreak of war between German and Russia, the German forces invaded Loboml. On 6th December 1941, the ghetto was erected. In...

Director : Eileen Douglas, Ron Steinman

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 67

Language : English

World War Two: The Lost Color Archives - Total War

Collection of archival films in color from the period between 1941 to December 1944; Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack, American soldiers on the way to Europe, president Roosevelt, ships in the American fleet, American women at work in an ammunition factory, convoy of merchant ships in the Atlantic ocean, a British ship firing, German forces in an occupied city in the Soviet Union, local civilian hanging in Pancevo, Warsaw ghetto, Stalingrad after the defeat of the German forces, British soldiers, aerial bombardment, fires in Hamburg after aerial bombardment, Gypsy children in Swabia, Pacific Ocean front in...

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 45

Language : English

German Newsreels no. 513 (3/7/40), 514 (10/7/40).

Newsreel no. 513 (3 July, 1940): Germany's endless columns stream into conquered France. NSDAP welfare aids French civilian refugees; liberating German POWs. French POWs - the black brothers of the French infantry. German engineers spearhead French reconstruction. Back to normal in Amsterdam and Brussels. Publishing Westfront in Paris. Parisian crowds hear German peace terms. Hitler visits Parisian landmarks - La Madeleine, Plasce de la Concorde, Arc de Triomphe, Trocadero and Eiffel Tower (with Albert Speer). Germany's navy prepares for war with Britain - Fleet Admiral Raeder arrives in Flanders; he...

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 45 46

Language : English, French, German

Warsaw Ghetto - German Occupied Poland, 1942 - edited version

Excerpts from archival films that document the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942.

Production Year : 1942

Duration : 32

And Still the Melody Returns - The Jewish Community of Rzeszow

Documentary film that describes the history of the community of Rzeszow against the background of pictures and archival films that are integrated with photographs of the city today.

Director : Ran Bogin

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 21

Language : English, Hebrew