Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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In 1987, in a Viennese antique shop, a few hundred colour slides were found. The slides documented the life in Lodz Ghetto. Through this slides collection, Arnold Mostowicz, survivor that who was Jewish physician in the ghetto, tells his memories.

Director : Dariusz Jablonski

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 71

Language : German, Polish, Yiddish

In My Father’s Footsteps

The film focuses a holocaust survivor, Helen Aronson, and her experiences living in the Lodz Ghetto. The film is the first stage of a three year project called Apprentice Arts set up in partnership with Age Exchange and Gifted and Talented and Aim Higher Lewisham.

Director : David Savill

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 78

Language : English

My Lodz No Longer Exists - The story of Yosef Neuhaus

Summary: Documentary film. This film chronicles the Jewish community in Lodz, Poland, through the story of Yosef Neuhaus. Yosef was born in Lodz in 1924, to Tova-Yona and Zvi Hirsch. In May 1940, he was forced to enter the Lodz ghetto along with his parents and younger sister Zofia, where they lived for four years until their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau. All of Yosef’s family members were murdered in that camp. Yosef survived and was then imprisoned in several other camps. In...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 41

Language : Hebrew

Lodz Ghetto - Romkowski's Speech, 1942

Documentary film that makes use of photographs of the speeches of Mordechai Romkowski, and brings the testimony of Tola Meltzer about the eve of the "Sperre" and the text of the speech of Romkowski, the head of the Judenrat in the Lodz Ghetto - who calls for consenting to the order of deportation of the children from the ghetto.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 2

Language : Silent Film

The Lodz Ghetto - The Children's Workshop Album

The second “album film” from the Lodz Ghetto concerns child-labor in the ghetto, the only means of temporary survival available to children over a certain age.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 6

Language : Silent Film

The Lodz Ghetto - The Weaving Workshop Album

This documentary is one of a series of two films comprising sections from beautifully designed albums documenting the achievements of slave laborers in the Lodz Ghetto. The albums were presented as gifts to Mordechai Rumkowski, the Chairman of the Lodz Judenrat.This particular film deals with the Lodz Ghetto’s textile factory.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 4

Language : Silent Film

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Final part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Liberation and Revenge’ completes the history of Auschwitz. As the end of the war approached, Auschwitz officers tried to hide the evidence of their crimes but were not completely successful. After liberation, survivors searched for their family and tried to return to their prewar homes, but former communities and neighbors did not always welcome them. As evidence of war crimes emerged, some senior SS officers were tried and convicted; others were allowed to resume their lives. Over 4 years, 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz and 1.1 million people died...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Fifth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Murder and Intrigue’ explores the web of international politics spun during the last nine months of 1944. By that spring, the Allies knew about Auschwitz and had the military capability to bomb it. Yet despite the pleas of Jewish leaders, the British and Americans decided not to bomb the railways or gas chambers. During the spring and summer, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz at a time when the killing machinery had been honed to perfection. That autumn saw a significant act of resistance in Auschwitz, when a group of Jewish...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Forth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Corruption’ reveals why Auschwitz was unique in the Nazi state as the only site that was both a concentration and an extermination camp. The reason was simple-money. At Auschwitz, the Nazis wanted to kill "useless mouths" instantly and work stronger prisoners to death as slave laborers in places like the nearby IG Farben factory. Meanwhile, the SS profited from the belongings of those they killed-so much so, that in the summer of 1943, an investigation was launched into corruption in the camp and the commandant was removed. Elsewhere, individuals and nations are...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution, part 3: Factories of Death.

Third part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Factories of Death’ examines the annihilation system that the Nazis spread throughout Europe, with Auschwitz as the hub. It tells why the first transport of Jewish men, women, and children interred at Drancy, outside Paris, were transported to Auschwitz in March 1942 and what happened to the children who were rounded up without their parents. Genocide is being perpetrated not only at Auschwitz, but also at other camps, such as Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor. In the final segment, Linda Ellerbee talks with Deborah Dwork, Rose Prof. of Holocaust History at Clark...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

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