Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Documentary. Part One: Four high-school girls in a small town in Kansas dramatize and play the story of a Polish woman, Irena Sendler who saved 2,500 children and infants from death in the Holocaust, and visit her at her home. Irena Sandler was a Catholic nurse and a social worker, and a member of the Polish underground Council for Aid to Jews (Żegota) that opposed the Nazis during World War II. In 1943 four months after the Warsaw ghetto was destroyed and burned to the ground, she was appointed the to direct the Zegota's care of Jewish children, and used her connections in orphanages and institutions for...

Director : Michał J. Dudziewicz

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 45

Language : Polish

The House on August Street

The remarkable, unknown story of Beate Berger, a German Jew who single-handedly and with great resolve and vision rescued over 100 children during the Holocaust, smuggling them from Berlin to Palestine in the 1930s. Berger, founder of the House of Love Children’s Home (Beith Ahawah Kinderheim) Berlin’s first home for poor Jewish children, was quick to recognize the Nazi threat and resolved to protect the 120 children under her care on “August Street.” Raising the funds and making all the clandestine arrangements herself, Berger brought groups of children into Palestine from Germany from...

Director : איילת ברגור

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 63

Language : German, Hebrew

A Day in October

During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's planned round-up and delivery to concentration camps of all Jews. Story is told from the point of view of one Jewish family. English dialogue and U.S. actors top-cast

Director : Kenneth Madsen

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 99

Language : Danish, English

The Travel Agency of Josef Schleich aka Schleich's Restaurant

This documentary tells the story of Josef Schleich who saved thousands of Jews in 1938-41. Schleich, who loved surrounding himself with beautiful women and had 7 children to feed, started to smuggle Jews from Germany in 1938. His apartment was a station on the route to safety. There are no precise records of his activities, but he may have helped 20,000 Jews to leave the country in 1938-41. In March 1941, when he was arrested by the Gestapo in Graz and taken to court. The film explores here original locations and presents interviews with living witnesses: his children, farmers from the border country of Austria...

Director : Elisabeth Stratka, Gerald Navara

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 43

Language : German

The Resistance Nest - A Village Helps Jews

Survivors and rescuers tell in this documentary their stories: Gabi Barraud (forged papers), Joseph Atlas (refugee in Chambon with his mother and brother), Hannah deer, which tells how they.

Director : Anja Klabunde

Production Year : 2004

Language : German

The Glass House

Winner of the Best Documentary Prize at the Ein Yehudit Festival, this is the story of Carl Lutz, 1895-1975, Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest during the Nazi occupation and one of the first to be named "Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem. Having been assigned as vice-consul to the Swiss Consulate General in Jaffa from 1935-1941, Lutz was sympathetic towards the Jews and in May 1944, he started working to save Jews in Budapest. He issued thousands of protective letters for emigration to Palestine. He also set up more than 70 safe houses, mostly in the ghetto, declaring them annexes of the Swiss legation....

Director : Enricho Passotti

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 87

Language : Italian

Visas for Freedom

סרט תעודי העוסק בברנרדו רולנד דה מיוטה (Bernardo Rolland de Miota), קונסול ספרד בפריז בשנים 1939-1943, אשר פעל למען יהודי צרפת ואף התעמת בעניין זה עם שגריר ארצו בצרפת. לאחר שהיהודים הופלו בחקיקה ביחס לשאר האוכלוסייה והוטלו עליהם הגבלות, רולנד פעל נגד החרמת רכושם. באוגוסט 41 הוא התערב באופן פעיל לטובת 14 יהודים ספרדים שנעצרו ונשלחו למחנה המעבר דרנסי. אותו זמן רולנד אף כתב לשלטונות גרמניה בפריז והציע העברת 2,000 יהודים (כולל אלו בדרנסי) למרוקו הספרדית תוך מספר שבועות. לאחר מכן, ללא הצלחה של ממש, הוא ניסה להאט את גירוש היהודים מצרפת ולהוקיע את רדיפתם. ב- 1942, מאמציו של רולנד נשאו פרי. שלטונות וישי לא יכלו להחרים...

Director : Ricardo Basterra, Arancha Gorostola

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 52

Language : Spanish

The Woman from Sarajevo

This documentary tells of Zinbe Hardaga, the first Moslem to be awarded the title “Righteous Among the Nations” and members of the Kavilio family, Jewish survivors who found shelter from the Nazis in her home. 50 years after the WWII, with the outbreak of war in the Balkans, the Kavilio family with the help of Yad-Vashem, the Joint and the Israeli Government, enabled Hardaga, her daughter Sara, son-in-law and little granddaughter, Stella, to escape. A year after arriving in Israel, at the age of 76, Zinbe died. She was buried in a Jewish cemetery. Her daughter Sara, son-in-law and granddaughter Stella converted...

Director : אלה אלתרמן

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 56

Language : English, Hebrew, Serbian-Croatian

Secret Courage - The Walter Suskind Story

This documentary tells the story of Walter Suskind, a German Jew living in Amsterdam who was forced by the Nazis to serve as the Jewish head of deportation at the Hollandsche Schouwburg (the Jewish Theater site) in Amsterdam. Using his fluent German and his skills as an actor and businessman, he orchestrated the escape of almost 1,000 Dutch children and adults from the death camps. Suskind himself died at Auschwitz. Through testimonies by resistance members who knew him, and five of the nearly 1,000 children they saved, the film recreates the his story. The stories are interwoven in a personal style, creating a...

Director : Tim Morse, Karen Morse

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 82

Language : English

Choosing Courage - The Legacy of the Lubberts

סרט תעודי קצר המבוסס על תצלומי משפחה וארכיון ומספר את סיפורם של טאקה ואיימי לוברץ, חסידי אומות עולם הולנדים. בני הזוג לוברץ נישאו ב- 1934. טאקה שימש כמורה ולשניים נולדו לפני ובמהלך המלחמה 7 ילדים. החל מ- 1943 בני הזוג החלו לקחת חלק בפעילות מחתרת ההתנגדות נגד הכיבוש הנאצי. הם הפיצו עלוני מחתרת וסייעו לצוותי אויר של בנות הברית. יום אחד הופיעו בביתם שני קרובי משפחה רחוקים שביקשו מחסה בביתם כיוון שהיו מבוקשים ע"י הגרמנים על רקע סירובם להצדיע הצדעת "הייל היטלר". כך הפך בית משפחת לוברץ למחסה עבור נרדפי הכיבוש. לאחר שקיבלו את הבטחת הכומר המקומי לדאוג לילדיהם במידה ויקרה להם משהו, הם החלו להחביא בביתם גם יהודים, מה שהיה...

Director : Gerard L. Segelman

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 13

Language : English

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