Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Is a documentary that depicts the role of Nazi collaborators during the Shoah who were complicit in the liquidation of Latvian and Lithuanian Jewry, i.e. the Litvak population, as well as their connection to present day war crimes issues.

Director : Richard Bloom, Karen Lynne

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 31

Language : English

My Heart Was in Lviv

Movie shows views of Lvov before the war and its relationship with the Polish Republic.

Director : Alina Czerniakowska

Production Year : 1987

Duration : 31

Language : Polish

Live From The Past - D-Day

Educational documentary film. Archival footage and newspaper segments from the New York Times about the pre-Second World War events and the first stages of the war: The Treaty of Versailles, the Polish Corridor, Nazis, annexation of Austria, Munich Agreement, Italian Fascism, the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, invasion of Poland, Lightning War, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France.

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 18

Language : English

Kryptonim Pożoga - Dramat Wołyński (1939-1945)

סרט תיעודי. סרט תיעודי זה מתאר את האירועים בווהלין (Wołyn, Volhynia) בזמן מלחמת עולם השנייה ומתרכז בגורלה של האוכלוסייה הפולנית בחבל זה.

Director : Wincenty Ronisz

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 87

Language : Polish

The Eagle's Nest - The End of the Reich

Production Year : 1987

Duration : 50

Lerner's Revenge

Summary: This documentary accompanies Ronny Lerner, an Israeli businessman, on his journey to, and in Poland in order to try and understand what happened to his family in the Holocaust. Lerner discovers that after the family had run away from their village in Poland, his father, Yitzhak Lerner, lived in Warsaw with two women under assumed identities. At the end of the war Lerner senior returned to the place where his family was murdered in order to get revenge. Now Lerner the son arrives there in order to see for himself where everything happened and he even manages to get to the last murderer. The...

Director : Gilad Tokatly

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 60

Language : English, Hebrew, Polish

German Newsreels no. 459 (21/6/39), 468 (23/8/39), 470 (7/9/39).

Newsreel no. 459 (21 June, 1939): Archival footage from 1919 shows German Imperial Navy en route to scuttling at Scapa Flow; 20 years later, reborn German fleet displays readiness on high seas. Two submarines, American and British, are crippled in separate accidents at sea. At French air show, a Fokker Jungmeister and its daredevil French pilot stage acrobatic stunts. In Rome, 20,000 sailors march before King Emmanuel and Mussolini. German gymnasts stage an "impressive display" of physical training for military and diplomatic dignitaries. A cultural festival in mostly German Danzig becomes a major protest...

Production Year : 1939

Duration : 53

Language : English, German

Hitler's Assistants - Ribbentrop the Henchman

Documentary film about Joachim von Ribbentrop, a German statesman and Hitler's foreign minister in the years 1938-1945. The film deals with the figure of Ribbentrop and his diplomatic career, political agreements and processes connected to him, his activity during the war, his relations with Hitler and with senior Nazis, his arrest and trial at Nuremberg. Includes archival films, interviews and testimonies of former diplomats and close associates.

Director : Guido Knopp

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 50

Language : German

Kovno Ghetto - A Buried History

Documentary film that deals with the Kovno/Kaunas ghetto. The film is presented by historian Martin Gilbert and it includes archival films, expert analysis and testimony of survivors.

Director : Herb Krosney

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 77

Language : English, Hebrew

A Partisan Returns: The Legacy of Two Sisters

A shprt documentary. Former Bielski partisan Lisa Reibel journeys back to her home in Belarus for the first time after nearly 65 years. Experience how her story of escape, struggle and success affects her family three generations.

Director : Mitch Braff

Production Year : 20008

Duration : 22

Language : English

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