Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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A feature film.Whilw a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, Han van Meegeren was hosting soirées and selling Dutch art treasures to Hermann Goring and other top Nazis. Following the war, the J ew becomes an investigator assigned the task of identifying and redistributing stolen art, resulting in the flamboyant van Meegeren being accused of collaboration , a crime punishable by death. But, despite mounting evidence the investigator, with the aid of his assistant , becomes increasingly convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the position of fighting to save his...

Director : Dan Friedkin

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 118

Language : English

Righteous Thieves

A thriller. The head of a secret organization assembles a crew to steal back artwork plundered by Nazis during World War II..

Director : Anthony Nardolillo

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 91

Language : English

The European Dream

A documentary. The film tells the story of an collection which was robbed in world war two. This a journey back in time to the cultural and artistic world of the Jews of Berlin pre-world War II. Joined this journey Roberto Graetz, whose grandfather owned a collection of 250 artworks. On that journey we encountered the world of art saturated with struggles, and attempts to control those works of art today, to the dream and its eradication.

Director : Mooly Landesman

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 75

Language : English, German, Hebrew, Spanish

Valiant Hearts

A feature film. It follows the odyssey of six Jewish children hidden during World War Two who found refuge . in the Chambord castle and its park , among the hidden works of art of the Louvre. The main character of the film is based on Rose Valland, French art historian, member of the French Resistance who recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France. The film was shown at the Jewish Film Festival ,2022

Director : Mona Achache

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 87

Language : French

The Man who Saved the Louvre

A documentary film. At the dawn of World War II, a resistance group organizes an incredible exfiltration of masterpieces from the Louvre Museum to save it off the Nazis’ hands. The man leading the operation is Jacques Jaujard, museum’s director, using his knowledge of the system and his audacity to serve a universal cause: saving the world heritage.

Director : Pierre Pochart, Jean-Pierre Devillers

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 60

Language : English

Also Life is an Art - The Case of Max Emden גם החיים הם אומנות-סיפורו של מקס אמדן

A documentary film. Hardly anyone knows the name Max Emden today. Born in Hamburg in 1874, the son of a respected Jewish merchant family, Emden was a department store king who built an exceptional art collection. In 1928, Emden moved to Switzerland, but the Nazis gradually confiscated his assets and he died impoverished in 1940. Almost 80 years later, Max Emden’s heirs are still fighting for compensation. With the help of explosive documents, private film footage, and historical testimonies, the film recounts the rise and destruction of a Hanseatic family through the violence of the Nazi regime.

Director : Eva Gerberding, André Schäfer

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 90

Language : English, German

An extraordinary exhibition is on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris: 31 paintings

An extraordinary exhibition is on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris: 31 paintings found in Nazis' hands that had been confiscated from Jewish families during World War II. The purpose of the exhibition is to find the owners of the paintings

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 1

Language : Hebrew

The Menten Affair aka The Body Collector

Remarkable, riveting and profoundly moving are just some of the descriptions that best describe this drama based on the real life story of Hans Knoop, former editor of a Dutch news magazine. In the mid-70’s, Knoop courageously pursued the investigation of mega-millionaire Pieter Menten, who he suspected was a war criminal. Stellar performances and a taut script make this drama a powerful film about the pursuit of justice and one man’s dogged persistence for the truth.

Director : Tim Oliehoek

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 142

Language : Dutch