Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Survivor of Terror - The Story of Ernst Federns

Documentary film that presents an interview with Ernst Federn, psychoanalyst and son of Paul Federn, a well-known Viennese psychiatrist who was Freud's assistant. Federn describes his 7- year imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald and Dachau. Includes family photographs and archival photographs.

Director : Wilhelm Roesing

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 89 95

Language : German

Band of Brothers - 6, Bastogne

Episode six in the HBO-BBC co-production television series that is based on true occurrences and tell the story of Easy Company, an American infantry company during WWII. The full activity of the company is explored starting from the initial basic training stage through the invasion of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and to the liberation of Europe. Among the producers of the series, are director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks.

Director : David Leland

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 63

Language : English

The English Patient

An award wining romantic epic based on Michael Ondaatje 1992 bestseller. The story takes place in an abandoned monastery in Tuscany, Italy, close to the end of WWII. Hanna, a young Canadian nurse dedicates herself to the care of a badly burned unknown “English patient”, survivor of a plane crash at North African desert. His only possessions are an annotated diary and old photographs. Reading out to him extracts from his diary, Hanna, occasionally encounters references related to a woman called “K”. The patient who revealed himself as a Hungarian Count, relates to her that “K” in fact stands for “Katherine”, a...

Director : Anthony Minghella

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 162

Language : English

What have they done to our girls? - The story of the painter Max Bueno de Mesquita (1913-2001)

A moving short documentary film about the story of the Dutch painter Max Bueno de Mesquita and his survival of seven concentration camps. The film shows a series of dramatic paintings made by Max Bueno de Mesquita during his therapy to cure him from Concentration Camp-Syndrome.

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 1977

Duration : 15

Language : English

Zachor: We Were There - Jewish Liberators of the Nazi Concentration Camps

עדויות מאת לשעבר חיילים יהודים בכוחות השחרור של בנות הברית.

Director : Paul Hansen

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 34

Language : English

The World At War - Stalingrad, June 42 - February 43

Episode in a 26-part documentary series that presents a detailed survey of World War II. Episode 9 - "Stalingrad June 1942-February 1943": The encirclement and defeat of the Germany army in Stalingrad have greater significance than the number of lives lost - and they were many. For the first time, the Germans were struck in the field. Members of the nation that Hitler once called sub-human shattered the myth of German supremacy. Includes archival films and testimonies. Narration by the British actor Laurence Olivier.

Director : Jerome Kuehl

Production Year : 1974

Duration : 52

Language : English

המרפא הפצוע

A Documentary. Criminologist Dr. Dan Philipp has devoted his career to treating sex offenders and sex workers. His professional life has involved an encounter with evil, insanity, and transgression. Dan contends that society’s attitude towards sex offenders is hypocritical and fearful of meeting the perversion that lurks inside us all. Dan’s routine is interrupted when he is invited to his native city of Aachen, to a memorial ceremony for his childhood friend Gisela. The return to Germany reveals a dark secret from Dan’s past, compelling him to face formative events experienced as a child fugitive in the...

Director : Yochai Rosenberg

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 54

Language : English, German

ילדי בירנבאום

סרט תיעודי. הסרט התיעודי "ילדי בירנבאום" מראה את סיפורה המרגש של המשפחה היהודית בירנבאום, שנחתה בשנת 1939 במחנה וסטרבורק. כשפרצה המלחמה בירנבאום אב ואמא דאגו לילדים היהודים מבלי שהוריהם נכנסו למחנה. 35 צריפים, אותם הם הובילה את בית הספר: בית היתומים כצריף במחנה הגיע גם כאשר המשפחה הסתיימה אחר כך בברגן בלזן, בירנבאום דאג ליתומים.

Director : Melinde Kassens

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 35

Language : Dutch

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2004 - Zvi Kratz

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2004 "Until The Last Jew... Until The Last Name". Torchlighter Zvi Kratz. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew