Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Documentary film showing the struggle in Bulgaria under the Nazi occupation. At the end of WW2 there were 49,172 Jews. At the start of the war there were 48,565 Jews. Bulgaria was the only country in Hitler's Europe that had more Jews at the end of the war than at the beginning. The film explains how this happened. The flood of support against the Nuremberg laws, the Bulgarians who fought against the rulers, Parliament preventing sending the Jews to their deaths, the Church protecting the lives of Jews. Ultimately it was the people who caused the king of Bulgaria to change his policy towards the Jews. ...

Director : Nitsan Aviram

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 66

Language : English, Hebrew

Hiler's Jewish Soldiers

“Hitler’s Jewish Soldier”, a documentary directed by Larry Price, is presented on the program “Mabat Sheny” on Israel’s Channel One. The film tells the stories of those who were identified as Jews or half-Jews by the Nazis and deals with their dilemma of being forced to choose between going to their death and serving in the Wehrmacht against the Red Army. Includes testimonies and archival material. Participants: Werner Goldberg, Hans Girt Falkenberg, Helmut Kopp, Ephraim Glazer, Arno Shpitz, all Jewish soldiers who served in the Wehrmacht; Dr. David Bankier, The Research Institute, Yad Vashem;...

Director : Larry S. Price

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 58

Fascination and Terror: Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds

סרט תדמית העוסק ב- Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände, תערוכה המוצגת במוזיאון העיר נירנברג (Nürnberg) הממוקם באגף הצפוני של היכל קונגרסים אשר תוכנן ע"י הנאצים אך מעולם לא הושלם. בקומה העליונה אשר גודלה כ- 1,300 מטרים מרובעים מוצגת תערוכה קבועה - פסינציה וטרור (Faszination und Gewalt) - העוסקת בעריצות הנאצית מן הזווית הנוגעת לנירנברג; ההיסטוריה של ועידות המפלגה הנאצית, בנייני הועידות הנאציות, חוקי נירנברג, משפטי נירנברג וקשיי הטיפול במורשת הארכיטקטורה הנאצית. כולל סרטי ארכיון.

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 12

Language : English, German

Mary Grünfeld Wilk Sanders Holocaust Story

A testimony. MarY was born in 1912 in Tarnov, Poland and grew up in Berlin, Germany. After the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, Jewish life in Germany in general and in Berlin in particular began to become unbearably difficult. The situation became even worse after Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938. As a result, Mary and her family looked for a way to escape from Nazi Germany. Mary eventually managed to get a visa to Brazil. On December 7, 1939, Marie arrived at Safety to Rio de Janeiro. About a month later, her mother arrived as well. Mary did not learn the Portuguese language systematically but from...

Director : Giselle Heimann Ratain

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 37

Language : English, German

המפוחית שהצילה את חיי

A testimony. Testimony of Zvi (Horst) Cohen, a member of Kibbutz Maabarot, born in Berlin in 1931. Zvi tells of his childhood in Germany, before Adolf Hitler came to power, and after that, living under the Nuremberg Laws, during Kristallnacht 1938, and during World War II. On May 7, 1943, Zvi and his parents were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Since he knew how to play German folk songs, at the time of his arrest, Zvi played the harmonica. He and his parents survived for two years in the Theresienstadt ghetto until the end of the war. The testimony was first broadcast on Holocaust...

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 93

Language : Hebrew

צ'יקה , הכלבה בגטו

סרט קצר, משולב אנימציה. הסרט מבוסס על ספרה של בת שבע דגן, שנכתב לקוראים הצעירים, ומספר על ימי השואה דרך עיניו של ילד בן חמש (מיכאש).המסרב להיפרד מכלבתו האהובה צ'יקה. בגטו בפולין מצווים הנאצים על היהודים למסור את כלביהם בשל האיסור בחוקי נירנברג.להחזיק בביתם חיות מחמד, אך מיכאש, שקשור מאוד לכלבתו, מסרב למסור אותה. הוריו מחפשים פתרון שיאפשר להם לשמור על צ‘יקה,והילד שותף פעיל בהחלטות. הסרט מציג ברגישות ובחכמה סיטואציה שאינה מוכרת לילדים בימינו – משפחה במצוקה בתקופת המלחמה.

Director : Sandra Schiessl

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 17

Language : German

מסע בחורף

A documentary drama film. The movie is based on American radio host Martin Goldsmith’s book about his Jewish parents, who fled Nazi Germany. Both were talented musicians, but after the Nuremberg Laws were enacted in 1935 they were only able to perform as members of the Jewish Cultural Federation, a bizarre propaganda organization fully controlled by the Reich Chamber of Culture.This film brings to life the reality of their beautiful and painful love story, using archive material. It also includes reenactments of the conversations Martin Goldsmith had with his father in preparation for his book.

Director : Anders Ostergaard, Erzsebet Racz

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 91

Language : English, German

Nazi Lae: Legally Blind

A documentary A sobering look at how Hitler and the Nazi party manipulated laws to further their hate-filled agenda. People who were considered physically or racially inferior or disloyal to the state were deprived of their rights and often their lives under these Nazi laws. When Germany was ultimately defeated, Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg Trials, in an attempt by the world community to restore the rule of law./

Director : John Michalczyk

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 55

Language : English, German