Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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The story of Oleńka, is an unpretentious account by a Polish political prisoner of her experience of Nazi concentration camps and death marches. It is a welcome addition to the genre of Holocaust memoirs, and it shows that the Jews were not the only victims of Hitler’s regime.

Production Year : 2011

Language : English

My Australia

City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without father, and their mother, so busy at work, do not notice when boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only, when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland togather with her family and go to…Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become conscious of their and their family roots.The film is a full of emotions but also humorous tentative of self statement, and in case of both kids...

Director : Ami (tadeusz) Drozd

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 90

Language : Polish

Valentina's Mother

An intricate relationship is woven between Paula (80), a holocaust survivor living on her own and Valentina (25), a migrant worker from Poland who comes to live with her. When Paula meets Valentina, who shares the same name as an old Christian friend from Paula’s childhood, repressed memories from the holocaust awaken. As time passes Paula becomes extremely dependent on Valentina. Dark memories from her past continue to surface and Paula begins to lose her grasp of reality. She is relentless in her needs to have Valentina around. For Valentina things become too intense, and she asks to leave. The night before...

Director : אריק לובצקי, מתי הררי

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 80

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Shtetl

Documentary film that follows a visit that a Shoah survivor and Polish researcher made to the town of his childhood where 2,500 Jews were murdered by soldiers of the Gemany army.

Director : Marian Marzynski

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 109

Language : English

Extraordinary People from Oświęcim - How They Aided Auschwitz Prisoners

This is a film about how the residents of the land of Oświęcim rescued Auschwitz prisoners. Oświęcim is a town in southern Poland, situated some 50 kilometres west of Kraków. Outside Poland, it is sometimes still called Auschwitz, its German name, in reference to the Auschwitz concentration camp built there by Nazi Germany during World War II. Auschwitz Museum historians have managed to establish the names of over 1,200 Poles from Oświęcim and the vicinity who aided prisoners. The Germans arrested at least 177 people in revenge. Sixty-two of them perished in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. One of the...

Director : Stefan Wilkanowicz

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 29

Language : Polish

The Legacy of Jedwabne

The story of the Jedwabne massacre continues to be a painful wound in the hearts and minds of both Polish Christians and Jews. One can only hope that true history reveals itself in all of our lives, even if this occurs several generations later. This thought-provoking film will spark dynamic dialogue about the importance of historical memory for negotiations of cultural identity and for Jewish-gentile relations; by initiating and encouraging this dialogue, this film will increase tolerance and understanding, thereby forging new alliances between Jews and non-Jews.

Director : Sławomir Grunberg

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 72

Language : English, Polish

כאן 11-חדשות הערב-ללמוד ולא לשכוח-התלמידים הפולנים שחוקרים את השואה

דב גילהר: כתבה על זיכרון השואה במערכת החינוך הפולנית, מה לומדים הפולנים על ההיסטוריה של הקהילה היהודית ארצם, ראיון עם ורוניקה תלמידה שמספרת איך הלימודים שינו את השקפתה. לגבי יהודים פרנק בויאנצ'יק פורום דיאלוג: כיצד מלמדים את התלמידים הפולנים על ההיסטוריה היהודית בכפר שלהם, כי משפיע הלימודים

Director : דב גילהר

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 13

Language : English, Hebrew, Polish

Inka 1946

A young girl Danuta Siedzikówna becomes the nurse of a liberation brigade commanded by Major Zygmunt Szendzielarz "Åupaszko." She is caught and sentenced to death against all evidence for her presumed participation in murderous acts.

Director : Natalia Koryncka-Gruz

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 85

Language : Polish