Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Wilhelm Brasse Fotograf 3444 - Auschwitz 1940-1945

Summary: Documentary. In March of 2010 Maria Anna Potocka conducted an interview with Wilhelm Brasse. The outcome is a book with edited tales of the prisoner-cum-chief-photographer of Auschwitz, as well as a film with excerpts of the interview. There is an introduction by historian Teresa Wontor-Cichy, academic editor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The book is generously illustrated with photographs from Wilhelm Brasse’s own archives, as well as the Photographic Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Yad Vashem.

results.listIds.director : Maria Anna Potocka

results.listIds.year : 2011

results.listIds.duration : 43

results.listIds.lang : German, Polish

Jeder Mensch hat einen Namen - Geschützter Grünbestand

Documentary about the KZ-Außenlager (subcamp) at the Night-Fighter Airbase Hailfingen/Tailfingen. Includes interview with former prisoner-survivor of the camp Mordechai Ciechanower.

results.listIds.director : Johannes Kuhn

results.listIds.year : 2006

results.listIds.duration : 57

results.listIds.lang : German

Histories Of The Holocaust - Buchenwald 1937-42

This program documents the events of Buchenwald, where the prisoners were dealt out savage punishment for the slightest infraction of the rules. Inmates would freeze in -20° temperatures, starved and were worked to death; the guard dogs enjoyed significantly better living conditions. The camp was originally built to house 8,000, but by the end in 1945, when the U.S. forces arrived, contained over 50,000 enemies of the Reich, including Jews, political prisoners, homosexuals and Jehovah s Witnesses. Never an extermination camp like Auschwitz, Buchenwald was a labor camp, but it excelled in making everything...

results.listIds.director : Gerry Malir

results.listIds.year : 2009

results.listIds.duration : 73

results.listIds.lang : English

Damals waren wir Nummern, heute sind wir Menschen

סרט סטודנטים על מחנה ריכוז Lichterfelde, וראיונות עם ניצולי המחנה.

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 35

results.listIds.lang : German, Russian

More Great Escapes of World War Two

Documentary film that presents a collection of escape stories from World War II through testimonies of former war prisoners, underground fighters and resistance movements, soldiers and guards, dramatic reconstruction, archival photographs and films. Narration by the American actor Ed Asner.

results.listIds.director : Scott Paddor

results.listIds.year : 1998

results.listIds.duration : 95

results.listIds.lang : English

The Holocaust In Memory Of Millions

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

Hitler's Assistants - Göring the Second Man

Documentary film that deals with Herman Goring (1893-1946) one of the heads of the Nazi regime, Reichsmarshal and commander of Hitler's air force. The film surveys his activity in the party and the Nazi leadership, his service as a pilot in the First World War, his various roles, his relations with Hitler, his family, his place in the annihilation of the Jews and others, his failure in the battle over Stalingrad, his arrest, being brought to justice at Nuremberg and his suicide.

results.listIds.director : Guido Knopp

results.listIds.year : 1997

results.listIds.duration : 42 45

results.listIds.lang : German

Mut der Verzweiflung: Widerstand in Vernichtungslagern am beispiel Treblinka und Sobibor, Teil 1

First part of a documentary film that deals with the resistance in the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps. Includes testimonies, photographs and archival films.

results.listIds.director : Peter Neusner

results.listIds.year : 1985

results.listIds.duration : 87

results.listIds.lang : German

Der Todesmarsch Der Juden Aus Dem Konzentrationslager Flossenbuerg

Documentary film that deals with the death march from the Flossenbürg concentration camp to Dachau a short time before liberation of Flossenbürg by forces of the US Army. Includes testimonies, photographs and archival films.

results.listIds.director : Peter Heigl

results.listIds.year : 1997

results.listIds.duration : 43 44

results.listIds.lang : German

Triumph of the Spirit

Drama. The story of Salamo Arouch, a Greek-Jewish boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II. Arrested while attempting to help his family and friends escape the Nazi juggernaut, Arouch was slated for extermination. He managed to survive by boxing for his life. He did it at the orders of his SS captors, who gambled on the outcome of Arouch's bouts. With each victory, Arouch go extra bread rations.

results.listIds.director : Robert M. Young

results.listIds.year : 1989

results.listIds.duration : 120

results.listIds.lang : English, German

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