Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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The summer of 1945. Tadeusz, a former Home Army (AK) soldier who lost everything in the war, is journeying across Masuria. He arrives at the home of a German soldier's widow. Rose, who lives alone on a large farm, gives him a cool welcome but lets him stay the night. Tadeusz repays her by helping around the farm. Though she won't admit it, Rose needs protection from looters who keep coming to the farm. Gradually Tadeusz discovers the reasons for her solitude. Amidst a landscape ravaged by war, an impossible love is born between two people from distant worlds.

Director : Wojciech Smarzowski

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 94

Language : Polish

A Powerful Testimony of Forgiveness - Peter Loth, From Holocaust to New Life

עדות פרונטלית באנגלית מאת פיטר לות' (Peter Loth), ניצול שואה יהודי-גרמני אשר שימש בילדותו לניסויים רפואיים במחנה שטוטהוף (Stutthof). כולל תצלומי ארכיון.

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 116

Language : English

John Rabe

A feature film. The story of John Rabe. Rabe was manager of Siemens China when the Japanese attacked the then capital Nanjing in 1937. Appalled by events and driven by simple humanitarian concerns, Rabe helped create a safety zone that’s said to have saved the lives of around 200,000 people.

Director : Florian Gallenberger

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 134

Language : Chinese, English, German, Japanese

A woman in Berlin

April 1945. The Red Army is invading Berlin. Women fall victim to rape in a half-destroyed house. One of them is Anonyma, who had been a journalist and photographer. In her desperation she decides to look for an officer who can protect her. What happens is what she had least been prepared for. A relationship develops with the Russian officer Andrej that would feel like love were it not for the barrier that keeps them enemies till the end.

Director : Max Färberböck

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 127

Language : German, Russian

Holocaust 2 - The Memories, Delirium, The Revenge

This little-known afterthought to the run of Italian Nazi movies which began with 1973's Il Portiere di Notte goes so far as to even re-stage that film's famous dance sequence. Elo Pannaccio (using the pseudonym "John Jonathan") directed this tacky film about a group of Jewish people in present-day Italy who brutally murder Nazi officers and their families in order to avenge relatives killed in the Holocaust. A couple is drilled to death, a woman is gassed, another woman is stripped and strangled, and a heavyset man is tied down and has a heart attack after a goat licks sugar off his feet (perhaps the first...

Director : Angel Jonathan

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 76

Language : Italian

Lerner's Revenge

Summary: This documentary accompanies Ronny Lerner, an Israeli businessman, on his journey to, and in Poland in order to try and understand what happened to his family in the Holocaust. Lerner discovers that after the family had run away from their village in Poland, his father, Yitzhak Lerner, lived in Warsaw with two women under assumed identities. At the end of the war Lerner senior returned to the place where his family was murdered in order to get revenge. Now Lerner the son arrives there in order to see for himself where everything happened and he even manages to get to the last murderer. The...

Director : Gilad Tokatly

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 60

Language : English, Hebrew, Polish

Germany Pale Mother

Drama which presents a bleak picture of Germany family life after WWII. The film interweaves actual Second World War film footage together with the original material. Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, 1980.

Director : Helma Sanders Brahms, Walter Höllerer

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 123

Language : German

Screaming Silence

סרט תיעודי. פשעי מין אכזריים בוצעו באלפי ילדים יהודים בשואה. הסרט מביא עדויות מצמררות מפי הילדים של אז, שבמשך חיים שלמים הסתירו את חילול הגוף ורצח הנפש מפני העולם ובעיקר מבני משפחתם. בסרט זה מתגלים ומדברים לראשונה, אלה שלא העזו לספר, אפילו לא לבני משפחתם הקרובים ביותר, על עולם אפל של אונס אכזרי והתעללות מינית שעברו בילדותם.

Director : Gil Lesnik

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 50

Language : Hebrew

Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking

דוקו דרמה. About a young Chinese-American author's journey into the darkest reaches of humanity as she researched and wrote her best selling book "The Rape of Nanking". Iris Chang's harrowing experience and dogged determination uncovers in graphic detail the forgotten holocaust of World War II when almost 300,000 Chinese women, children and soldiers were in a matter of weeks systematically raped, tortured and murdered by the invading Japanese forces

Director : Anne Pick, William Spahic

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 103

Language : Chinese, English

Beetween Two Women

סרט תיעודי. הסרט עוקב אחר ביקורה של השחקנית בעיר מולדתה קלן לרגל הקרנת סרט קודם של רובין בשם "שקרים לבנים", בו היא מגלמת ניצולת שואה.

Director : Itzhak Rubin

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 85

Language : German, Hebrew

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