Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Between December 1944 and February 1945, seven Jewish women brought children into the world amidst the terror of Kaufering I, one of Dachau’s eleven satellite camps. While pregnancies were not uncommon in the camps, women and their children were usually murdered. The exhibition in Dachau traces the story of these seven survivors: their lives before deportation, their arrival and imprisonment in the terror camps, their experiences as female prisoners, the discovery of the pregnancies and birth of the children, the reaction of the SS, and finally forced evacuation, liberation and their lives following the...

Director : Eva Gruberová, Martina Gawaz

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 44

Language : German

Forgotten Transports to Belarus

Documentary about the lesser known transports of the Czechoslovakian Jews to the concentration camps in Belarus. The testimonies of the survivors are complemented by the unique archive material.

Director : Lukáš Přibyl

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 85

Language : Czech, Russian

Tragedy of Slovak Jews

תיעודה על סיור משלחת הסטוריונים במלאת חמישים שנה לגרוש היהודים. תערוכה שמוקדשת ליהדות סלובקיה, טקס הענקת מדליה לחסידת אומות העולם, גילוי לוח הזכרון לקורבנות השואה מסלובקיה.

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 42

Language : Czech

The Woman Rabbi

A documentary. Gisi Fleischmann helped to save thousands of Jews during the dark period of the Slovak and European history. Today, her name is known mostly to historians, but she was once a legendary member of the "Working Group", an underground resistance group active in Slovakia. This documentary" tells the story of the Gisi, torn between the sense of responsibility for her large community and for her own family. The film also bears witness to the way the contemporary Slovak society tries to deal with its past.

Director : Anna Grusková

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 52

Language : Slovak

מסע שורשים של משפחת וסלי

תיעוד של צסע שורשים של ניצולת שואה אדית וסלי-לם ומשפחתה לעיר מולדתה ניטרה (Nitra) שבסלובקיה. אדית מספרת את סיפור הצלת משפחתה בידי זוג אנג’לה ופרנטישק מלו (Frantisek & Angela Melo).

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 1999 - Toby Bash

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 1999. Torchlighter Toby Bash. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

The Whole World is a Narrow Bridge

This private story of Slovakia’s Jewish community revolving around sepia-coloured photographs is dedicated to Ján Mozolák who saved the lives of 14 Jews who were supposed to be executed during the war. Would Jossi Steiner be the rabbi of Košice nowadays if he had not found shelter in the basement owned by the Slovak equivalent of Oscar Schindler? A touching and at the same time bitter story about survival, about an intimate list of Mozolák.

Director : Dušan Hudec

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 59

Language : English, Hebrew, Slovak

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2007 - Zanne Farbstein

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2007 "Bearing Witness". Torchlighter Zanne Farbstein. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew