Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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German Newsreels no. (13/8/41), 573 (27/8/41).

Newsreel no. 571 (13 August, 1941): Volunteer legions from France, Flanders and Denmark join the crusade against Bolshevism. SS Freikorps Denmark is sworn in Hamburg. In Rome, Mussolini inspects more eastern front bound troops. Italians troops. Romanian Chief of State Anotonescu with his charges. German and Romanians engineers build a bridgehead over the Dniester near Criuleni. German flak units proceed through Ukraine. Hungarian and Slovakian forces fight along with the Germans. The armies fighting in Ukraine under Marshal von Rundstedt face difficult weather conditions. Masses of Soviet soldiers captured...

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 56 57

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 569 (30/7/41), 570 (6/8/41).

German Newsreel no. 569 (30 July 1941): Goering and Luftwaffe officers at his eastern base; reception of Marshal Kvaternik, Croatia Deputy Leader. Volunteers from Denmark, Spain (the "Blue Division") and Italy depart to Germany to take part in the fight against Bolshevism; they are cordiality welcomed in Germany. German destroyers leave Norway for Barents Sea and attack Soviet patrol boats near Murmansk; the enemy boats are bombarded and sunk. Heavy fighting near Salla; a bridgehead established across the Dniester River. German troops on the former Soviet-Romanian border in Bessarabia; Bolshevik emerge...

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 53 65

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 566 (10/7/41), 567 (16/7/41).

Newsreel no. 566 (10 July, 1941): Arial photo reconnaissance in the East Front; air raids on the enemy's march routes around Lemberg (Lvov). German forces advance on Lemberg (Lvov); Bavarian mountain infantry capture Lemberg (Lvov) after heavy fighting; Ukrainian people greet German soldiers as Liberators from Bolshevik terror ("before leaving, Jewish NKVD agents butchered Ukrainians nationalists like cattle herds"); Soviet atrocities in Lemberg (Lvov) are depicted; Jewish NKVD agents are turned over to German forces ("Allies of Churchill and his plutocracy"); locals are shattering plaster statues of...

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 60 62

Language : English, German

Captain Dabac

War film from the period of the Slovak national uprising. Action drama was directed by Palo Bielik in 1959. The film reflects the story of Captain Dabac, Slovak army officer who returns home from fighting in the Ukraine. Under the influence of bestiality occupiers against civilians and so infidelity of his young female has become suicidal individualist against the fascist occupiers.

Director : Paľo Bielik

Production Year : 1959

Duration : 100

Language : Slovak

A Path Across the Danube

A tragic story of two young friends, a Slovak and a Czech, after the establishment of the Slovak State and the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. After being accused of sabotage by the Gestapo they must escape from the country. Along the way, for better and for worse, they meet various kinds of people on whom their future lives depend.

Director : Miloslav Luther

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 89

Language : Slovak

A Letter to Wedgwood - The Life of Gabriella Hartstein Auspitz

סרט תיעודי. סיפור חייה של סרט דוקומנטרי המבוסס על ספר אותו כתבה גבריאלה הרסטין אוספיץ/ Gabriella Hartstein ובו קורותיה ברקע מלחמת העולם השנייה. גבריאלה שנולדה במונקאץ'/Mukačevo שבצ'כוסלובקיה למשפחה יהודית ציונית נבחרה בילדותה להעניק פרחים לאישיות מכובדת שביקרה בעיר. הברון ג'וזאיה קלמנט וג'ווד/ Josiah Clement Wedgwood חבר פרלמנט בריטי לא-יהודי אך ציוני נלהב הגיע למונקץ' להרצות. שנים אחר כך עם המלחמה שבפתח מסייע הברון לגבריאלה להימלט מאימת הנאצים.

Director : Yale Storm

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 56

Language : English