Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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לראשונה נחשף סיפורה של הפרטיזנית ויטקה-קמפנר אשתו של אבא קובנר. ויטקה, מודל של יהודיה גאה ולוחמת, הייתה סיירת נועזת שלא נרתעה משום משימה קשה והאישה היחידה שקבלה עיטור גבורה על פיצוץ רכבת גרמנית מתוך גטו וילנה 1942. הייתה זו פעולת התנגדות ראשונה כנגד הנאצים שעודדה רבים להתחיל בהתנגדות, בברה"מ ובפולין.

Director : יעל קציר

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 30

Language : Hebrew

ילדי האש שלי

This documentary records the contribution of the Podhale region (north of the Tatra mountains) to Poland's liberation starting with the formation of Jozef Pilsudski's Legion to which both the smallholders (gorals) and the local landowners belonged. The legendary First Regiment of Podhale Riflemen created in 1918 consisted of inhabitants of this region. During the Second World War Podhale Underground fought German Nazism on many fronts. After the war, when Poland was militarily occupied by Soviet communists, partisan fighters continued their activities. A partisan detachment nicknamed "Ogien" distinguished itself...

Director : Tadeusz Pawlicki

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 40

Language : Polish

Power of the Powerless

Siła Bezsilnych (Power of the Powerless) series tells the story of the Polish resistance movement against the Communist government during World War II. This chapter is dedicated to Joseph Kuras, nicknamed "Fire", who was the commander of the partisan organization "Lightning". The organization acted to release anti-communist underground prisoners from the "Saint Michala" prison in the center of Krakow near military camps and secret police headquarters with not a single shot fired. The last living witness Zbigniew Plobodah describes the action. The history of "Fire" reflects the history of post-war Poland. The...

Director : Tadeusz Pawlicki

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 49

Language : Polish

Fugitive aka The Runaway

Documentary about Kazimierz Piechowski - the organizer of the most daring escape from Auschwitz. For belonging to the Army was also imprisoned by the authorities after the war. Story of an ordinary man who became the victim of two totalitarian systems: Nazism and communism.

Director : Marek Tomasz Pawłowski

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 56

Language : Polish

The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos

Very important although for TV only made, adaptation of the Jozef Rembek's novel about Polish policeman who collaborated during WWII with the nazis in holocaust. Terrific performance of Miroslaw Baka is strongest side of this dark and upsetting film. must see based on the novel by Stanislaw Rembek television film, is a shocking and penetrating study of collaboration during the war. This is a moving story of a policeman in a small town, excellently played by Miroslaw Baka, whose values are simple Ð you have to must see based on the novel by Stanislaw Rembek television film, is a shocking and penetrating...

Director : Andrzej Wajda

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 96

Language : Polish

Fighting on Three Fronts: Antisemitism and the Jewish Partisans

A short documentary. Antisemitism followed the Jews even into the ranks of partisan units. First-hand accounts describe the different ways Jewish partisans dealt with persecution, including forming all-Jewish partisan groups.

Director : Mitch Braff

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 14

The Partisan With The Leica Camera

A documentary. The story of Mundek Lukawiecki and his wife Hannah Bern, who fought the Nazis with the Polish partisans and hid in the forests. Mundek's Leica camera gives us a limpse into the life of the partisans.

Director : Ruth Walk

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 54

Language : Hebrew

"מועדון הסרט של יד ושם"-עונה שלישית- מפגש ראשון-'אוסטרליה שלי'

סרט תיעודי . תיעוד המפגש הראשון של "מועדון הסרט של יד ושם" , בעונתו השלישית. פותחת את ההרצאה הגב' אורלי ניר, סגנית מנהל אגף הנצחה וקשרי קהילה. הסרט המוקרן הוא "אוסטרליה שלי" בבימויו של עמי דרוזד. לפני הסרט מרצה הבמאי דרוזד על חייו ועל עשיית הסרט.

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 25

Language : Hebrew

Polish Roads - Part 10

This is the epic story with many threads. The series starts in september 1939, during the German invasion of Poland. It shows different reactions of polish people to this and to the later occupation. Some are resisting, some try to accomodate, some try to live as if nothing happened.

Director : Janusz Morgenstern

Production Year : 1976

Duration : 90

Language : Polish