Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Nadzieja Umiera Ostatnia (Hope Dies Last), is Halina Birnbaum’s wartime memoir chronicling five years spent first in the Warsaw Ghetto, and then at various concentration camps, including Maidanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Birnbaum, a noted writer, later settled in Israel. In the eponymous film, Birnbaum returns to Poland forty years after having left.

Director : Tadeusz Wudzki

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 48

Language : Polish

Map of the Ghettos - Plonsk

This documentary film is making use of archival material of Ghetto Plonsk

Director : Liran Atzmor

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 3

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