Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Itzhak Elhanan Gibralter - Moral Dilemmas

A short documentry bringing to the scren the testiimony of Rabbi Itzhak elhana Gibraltar about moral dillemas he had during the Death March, regarding the copmmandment Honor thy Father

Director : Liran Atzmor

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

Kovno Ghetto - Religious Life in Slobodka

A short documentary film. This film deals with Tfaith in the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto and tells the story of the Slovotka Yeshiva (Knesset of Israel) and its students. The movie focuses on the study of Judaism and on the observance of prayers and mitzvos in public. The yeshiva, which was a center of attraction for many young people from all over Lithuania and especially from the countryside, was virtually closed at the beginning of the war. But its leaders and students who remained in Kaunas continued study and prayer frameworks. Among the main figures was Rabbi Grozinski - rabbi of the yeshiva. The film...

Director : Itay Ken-Tor

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 9

Language : Hebrew

Rabbi Sinai Adler - Moral Dilemmas

Documentary film that brings the testimony of Rabbi Sinai Adler about the rabbinical dilemmas he witnessed at the camp.

Director : Itay Ken-Tor

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 4

Language : Hebrew

Keeping the Connection - Mitzvah of Tefillin

Documentary film presenting stories of spiritual resistance achieved by keeping the commandment of "Tefillin" despite the Nazi prohibition, under the hellish conditions of the ghettos, concentration camps and death marches. Includes archival footage and still photographs. Witnesses: Sinai Adler, Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz, Eliyahu Hermann, Moshe Porat, Nehemiah Scheingott, and others.

Director : Anat Maskanes

Duration : 45

Language : Hebrew

THE MOGEN DAVID OF BARTH ON THE BALTIC

סרט זכרון אישי קצר של הבמאי רון לוין, על אביו, ר' הנרי סטנפורד לוין/Henry Stanford Levine. הנרי לוין היה עו"ד יהודי שנולד וגדל בעיר סירקיוז במדינת ניו יורק. הוא שירת בחיל האוויר האמריקני, ונפל בשבי הנאצי כשבוי מלחמה. ככזה הוחזק עם שבויי מלחמה נוספים במחנה נאצי Stalag Luft 1. הוא הצליח לקיים בחשאי תפילות יהודיות במחנה, תוך שהוא משתמש רק במשולש אחד מתוך סמל המגן דוד. הסרט מבוסס על ספר באותו השם שכתב רון לוין.

Director : Ron Levine

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 13

Language : English

Regina

Documentary telling the little-known story set in Nazi Germany of the first ever female rabbi. Regina Jonas was a revered figure for her pastoral work in 1930s Berlin before she was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942 and then, in 1944, to Auschwitz, where she was murdered. The documentary follows her struggle to be ordained as a rabbi, and also her romance with Hamburg rabbi, Josef Norden.

Director : Diana Groo

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 66

Language : English