Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Veteran journalist Walter Cronkite, speaking from the then new United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, narrates this story of a Holocaust. Historical records, original footage and personal photographs combine to chronicle the rise of the Nazi Party and their genocidal plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Oral histories from survivors present tales of bravery in the concentration camps. Also include are an interview with Noble Price laureate Elie Wiesel and the inauguration ceremony of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with the presence of president Clinton.

results.listIds.director : Brian Blake

results.listIds.year : 1993

results.listIds.duration : 90

results.listIds.lang : English

The Naming Ceremony of the Wilhelm Kretzfeld Police Academy

Video of a ceremony of a police school in Malente (northern Germany) on the occasion of giving a name to the school. It is named after Wilhelm Kruetzfeld, head of a police station in Berlin. It is due to him that the biggest of Berlin's synagogues, the new synagogue (Oranienburger Strasse), was saved from burning down during the crystal night. He chased away SA men and called for the fire brigade. Memorial speech by Heinz Knobloch, author.

results.listIds.year : 1994

results.listIds.duration : 18

results.listIds.lang : German

Alex Lebenstein - The Only Holocaust Survivor from Haltern, Germany, Videos 1-5

עדות מאת אלכס לבנשטיין (Alex Lebenstein), ניצול השואה היחיד מהאלטרן (Haltern), גרמניה, המוצגת בסדרה של 7 סרטים קצרים אשר כל אחד מהם מתמקד בשלב אחר בסיפורו של לבנשטיין. בחלק זה מובאים חלקים 1 עד 5. 1. 'ליל הבדולח', טראומת 'ליל הבדולח' של אלכס לבנשטיין בן ה- 11 2. 'גטו ריגה', משפחת לבנשטיין מאבדת את החופש ונאלצת לעבור לגטו ריגה. 3. 'מחנות עבודה', אלכס לבנשטיין הצעיר מתמודד על עבודת פרך ומחלות. 4. 'שחרור, הקשר לארה"ב', אלכס לבנשטיין אינו רצוי בעיר הולדתו ועוזב לארה"ב. 5. 'התמודדות עם הכעס', "כל כך כעסתי...שנאתי כל מה שגרמני". כך חש אלכס לבנשטיין עם בואו לארה"ב. 6. 'ריפוי',...

results.listIds.director : Alexa Welch Edlund

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 17

results.listIds.lang : English

Auschwitz - Recollections By Prisoner No.1327 / Auschwitz

Two documentary films: 1: "Auschwitz - Memories of Prisoner Number 1327" . Testimony against the background of a visit to the camp today. 2 "Auschwitz". Description of the history and activity of the camp through photographs, illustrations, documents, paintings, archival films and photographs of the camp today.

results.listIds.director : Tadeusz Wudzki, Lech Piotrowski

results.listIds.year : 1991

results.listIds.duration : 70

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Auschwitz

Documentary film about the history of Auschwitz-Birkenau through a visit to the camp today, photographs, drawings, documents, archival footage. The film is divided into 5 episodes.

results.listIds.director : Tadeusz Wudzki

results.listIds.year : 1991

results.listIds.duration : 57 60

results.listIds.lang : English

Marion's Triumph : Surviving History's Nightmare

Based on archival footage, photos and animated flashbacks, this documentary tells the story of Marion Blumenthal Lazar, a child Holocaust survivor. In 1938, Marion and her family were on their escape route to the U.S. as refugees. Just before their scheduled departure from Rotterdam, the Germans invaded Holland; bombed their ship and they were trapped. What began were a 6 and-a-half years of persecution in Nazi camps; a story of near escapes, hopes and tragedy. Finally they made it to the U.S in 1948 using the tickets paid for 10 years earlier. At the time of her liberation at age 10, Marion weighed 35 pounds....

results.listIds.director : John Chua

results.listIds.year : 2002

results.listIds.duration : 50

results.listIds.lang : English

Kristallnacht

הפקת ערוץ הטלוויזיה הברזילאי CTV. סרט תעודי העוסק ב"ליל הבדולח" ומבוסס על עדויות, תצלומי וסרטי ארכיון.

results.listIds.director : José Roitberg

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 20

results.listIds.lang : Portuguese

Hatred

This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker's father was a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939. The film opens with their return to his birthplace in east Germany. For the first time, the filmmaker understands what it must be like to have been the object of hatred, as she watches her father's reaction to the places of his childhood. Returning to...

results.listIds.director : Mitzi Goldman

results.listIds.year : 1996

results.listIds.duration : 55

results.listIds.lang : English, German

Gestures of Reconciliation - International Short Film Competition, Disc 1

סדרת סרטים קצרים.

results.listIds.director : Katsiaryna Kamockaya, Viktor Korzuon‬, אסתי עמרמי, דנה לבנט, Hans Stützer, Daniel Erb, Moonika Siimets, Priit Pääsuke, Jaanis Valk

results.listIds.year : 2005

results.listIds.duration : 117

results.listIds.lang : Belarusian, English, Estonian, German, Hebrew, Russian

Fate Did Not Let Me Go - A Mother Farwell To Her Son

Documentary film focussing on the last letter Valli Ollendorf wrote to her son Ulrich on 24.8.42, shortly before her death in the Terezin concentration camp during World War 2. The letter was lost for 50 years, and only reached Ulrich in 1985, when he was already 79 years old. The letter's expression of love and devotion, its encouragement to believe in the human spirit and to live a life inspired by love even in hard times, touched the hearts of the family members who realized that this was more than just a personal letter. After Ulrich's death, the family consulted with a rabbi, and finally decided to publish...

results.listIds.director : Jakov Sedlar

results.listIds.year : 2003

results.listIds.duration : 25

results.listIds.lang : English, Serbian-Croatian

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