Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Yaron London presents the stories of five accomplished professionals who were hidden as children in monasteries and convents during the Second World War.

Director : Avi Amber

Duration : 90 92

Language : Hebrew

I've Been Searching My Whole Life...

Director : Wojciech Olejniczak

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 17

Language : Polish

למי שאספני - לאה נבנצל, שיריה

Director : Nomi Morgenstern

Production Year : 2003

Language : Hebrew

Tour des Finaly

Director : מיכה שגריר

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 90

Language : German, Hebrew

חיבוק מאוחר

Summary: This documentary film depicts the journey of Holocaust survivor Esther Rotter from Israel to Poland where she was born, when in the background is the diary that she wrote when she was 14 years old. When Ester was nine-year-old she was given by her parents to a Ukrainian peasant family that hid her for two years during the war. After the war her parents' friends collected her from the villagers' home. She made aliyah and came to Kibbutz Merhavia. After sixty years Esther returns to Poland and meets her saviors. She finds out that they have been trying to find her all these years. Four of them...

Director : Yehudit Shenhar, Aliza Eshed

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 29

Language : Hebrew, Polish

The Bricha

A documentary film which through testimonies and archival films tells about the "Bricha," the organized illegal mass immigration in which close to 250,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors moved across Europe after the war for the purpose of reaching Eretz Israel.

Director : Noemi Schory

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 51 55

Language : Hebrew

The Phoenix

Documentary film that deals with children of the Shoah. Against the background of pictures, paintings and excerpts from archival films testimonies and memories are brought of survivors who were children in the Shoah.

Director : Yigal Burstein

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 47

Language : Hebrew, Polish