Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Frankfurt Rhein-Main, the biggest airport of the european continent, has three runways. There were rumours about the building of the first one immediately after World War II; Hungarian women had to build the runway for Hitler's silver bullet, the jet Me 262. In the seventies young workers found first evidence that Jewish girls and women from Auschwitz were brought to Maerfelden-Walldorf. This was dispatched as communist propaganda for a long time. Not until the 90s when a new generation tries to explore the history of their region. A historian and a grade of school set off to find survivors, listen to...

Director : Bernhard Türcke, Malte Rauch, Eva Voosen

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 87

Language : English, German, Hungarian

Made in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of Block 10

This documentary uses intimate survivor testimonies, archival footage and legal records to tell the story of the over 400 young women who underwent medical experimentation in Auschwitz under Carl Clauberg, an enterprising, sadistic gynecologist. Clauberg, who had already made a name for himself as a research scientist who volunteered his services to Heinrich Himmler of the SS to both help eradicate future generations of Jews and to avail himself of a pool of captive research subjects. These experiments, which sterilized many of the women, was also what spared them from the gas chambers. Many of the women, who...

Director : Sylvia Nagel, Sonya Winterberg

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 72

Language : Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew