Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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סרט תיעודי קצר על הצלת ילדים יהודים ע"י משפחת בירנבאום. פרס ראשון מסוגו ליהודים שהצילו יהודים בשואה, ניתן ב-2.5.11 בידי המרכז העולמי של בני ברית והקרן הקיימת. את המצילים יצגה סוני שי (בירנבאום), בתם של יהושע והני בירנבאום, אשר הצילו ילדים במחנה המעבר וסטרבורק בהולנד ובמחנה הריכוז ברגן-בלזן בגרמניה. היא וחמשת אחיה ואחיותיה ששרדו את השואה ועלו לארץ, ידליקו משואה. בכתבה זאת סוני מספרת על חיי המשפחה טרום המלחמה ובתקופת השואה.

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 23

Language : Hebrew

One Family's Story - Surviving the Holocaust

Short documentary film made by 17-years old student Sally Enfield Rabinowitz, who travels with her mother to Germany and London to do a photo essay and research about her family's escape from Nazi Germany with the help of the Leitz family.

Director : Sally Enfield Rabinowitz

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 10

Language : English

The Heavens Will Open for You - The Story of Malka Rosenthal

This film chronicles the Jewish community in Stanislawow, Eastern Galicia, through the story of Malka Rosenthal. Malka was born in Stanislawow in 1934, the eldest daughter of a wealthy, intellectual family. Over the course of the German occupation, she lost her mother and younger brother. Her father joined the partisans, and Malka was handed over to a Polish family. For one and a half years, she was kept hidden in a barrel underground. After liberation, she was one of the survivors aboard the illegal immigrant ship “Exodus”, and eventually arrived in Israel in 1948. Malka rebuilt her life through her work and...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 54

Language : Hebrew

Sendler's List

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

Carl Lutz: Dangerous Diplomacy

a docu drama film. The movie tells the story of Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz used his government position and bureaucratic expertise to rescue tens of thousands of Jews in Budapest Hungary who were in danger of deportation to Auschwitz during World War II. He was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1964.

Director : Michael Moehring, Bryan Boorujy

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 54

Language : English, German

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

The Escape to Sweden הבריחה לשבדיה, 1943

A Sudent film. The wartime experiences of the producer’s grandfather, Leopold Edelsten, born 1934 in Denmark. Edelsten narrates how he survived the German occupation and revisits the places he stayed in or passed through during his escape from Denmark to Sweden. Edelsten and his family first hid at the practice of his uncle’s colleague.They successfully reached Sweden. The student film was selected as the winning movie in a competition between movies depicting the rescue and escape of Danish Jewry to Sweden.

Director : Adam Aron Edelsten

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 9

Language : Danish

מבט שני - המצילים ודור שלישי לניצולים

כתבת טלויזיה על תחקיר של תלמידי בית הספר ליאו בק בחיפה, על הולנד בממלה"ע ה-2 שהביא ללמפגש עם חסידית אומות האולם אסתר גרינברג-בוסביין (בואסוויאן) (Esther Boissevain Grinberg).

Director : אייל תבור

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 19

Language : English, Hebrew