Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Recruited in 1947 by the Haganah to break the British naval blockade of Palestine, Paul Kaye and twenty-five other American recruits set sail in a dilapidated ship, “The Tradewinds,” from Baltimore to Palestine. Along the way, they picked up 1,500 displaced persons in Italy in the dead of night, and engaged in a naval battle with three British warships. And that is just the beginning of their astounding true story, upon which the award-winning novel and film Exodus was based. Through poignant, insightful, colorful and sometimes humorous interviews, interspersed with historic footage, the filmdocuments the...

Director : אלן רוזנטל

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 53

Language : English, Hebrew

Mots de Gurs - De la Guerre d'Espagne a la Shoah

Through eyewitnesses testimonies, archival photos and drawings this documentary tells of the life of Spanish exiles in Gurs, a refugee camp of Pyrenees-Atlantic, under the regime of Vichy. The Gurs camp was one of the first and largest camps established in pre-war France. Originally it served as a detention camp for political refugees and members of the International Brigade fleeing Spain after the Spanish Civil War. Between June 1940 and August 1944, the Vichy regime interned in Gurs also French Communists and Jewish deportees from southwest Germany and Austria. Conditions in the Gurs camp were very...

Director : Jean-Jacques Mauroy

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 54

In Our Own Hands - The Hidden Story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II

The story of the Jewish Brigade, a group of the British army, composed of Jewish volunteers from Palestine that was formed in September 1944 and fought in the Italian theater of war from March to May 1945.

Director : Chuck Olin

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 82

Language : English

Border Memories

Film concerning the Swiss asylum policy during the world war II. Includes footages and testimonies .

Director : Claude Torracinta, Bernard Romy

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 11

Language : French

Both Sides Of The Wire

Stories of German and Austrian refugees, most Jews, who came to England to escape from Nazi Oppression, only to be deported and interned in Canadian Prisoner of War Camp B as "dangerous aliens" in 1940 and what become of them 50 years later.

Director : Neal Livingston

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 51

Language : English

Paradise in Hell

This documentary begins with Shimon Jantovsky praying and beginning his search for the people who saved him together with one hundred others. Accompanid vy Bpris Rubanovitsch he meets archive worker Bella Kirschner at Yad Vashem searching through the trees of the Righteous Among The Nations. The journey continues back to Helsinki and to the Camp Naarajarvi, they meet significant people and bring survivors testimonie, archive film and stills.

Director : Lisa Hovinheimo

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 56

Language : Finnish, Russian

How About Adolf

A black comedy. Married couple Elisabeth and Stephan are expecting guests – Elisabeth’s successful brother Thomas, his pregnant girlfriend Anna and their childhood friend, René. The evening progresses pleasantly until Thomas announces the chosen name for their unborn child . An argument ensues and long-held secrets, hidden resentments and other hurtful opinions social decorum has prevented from being said are finally revealed. Thus is a satire that comments on changing attitudes in German society to the trauma of the war and its legacy.

Director : Sönke Wortmann

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 87

Language : German

שקט

סרט תעודה על סיפור הצלתם של מאות ילדים מאירופה הכבושה ומסעם המפרך דרך רוסיה האסיאתית, פרס, תימן, מצרים אל ארץ ישראל. הסרט עוקב אחר מסעם של הילדים ומבקר עם חלקם במחוזות המסע ברוסיה. עבור ההתיישבות היהודית בארץ ישראל ילדי טהרן היו ניצולי השואה הראשונים שהעידו על אימות השואה. בסרט משתתפים אחדים מהם והוא מלווה בתצלומי וסרטי ארכיון.

Director : Yehuda Kaveh

Duration : 58

Language : Hebrew

A Song for You

In 1943 the Karp family escaped the Nazis by crossing the Pyrenees on foot with the help of the French Resistance. For five harrowing years, they were on the run, sometimes only steps ahead of Hitler’s troops. Carrying the burden of their parent’s trauma, the filmmaker and her sisters return to Europe to confront events of the past in an attempt to separate them from the present. The story is told through interviews with her mother, segments of a book her father wrote, home movies, photographs, documents and historical footage. The mother’s songs are threaded throughout the film. Singing brought relief and hope...

Director : Sharon Karp

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 87

Language : English