Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2003 - Ephraim Agmon

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2003. Torchlighter Ephraim Agmon. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Henryk Sławik - The Polish Wallenberg

Documentary about Henryk Sławik -Polish journalist and politician. During World War II, he gave assistance to Polish refugees, including Jews, in Hungary. As President of the Citizen's Committee for Help for Polish Refugees, he organized help for interned soldiers and civilian refugees after the defeat in September 1939. Together with Jószef Antall, a representative of the Hungarian government, he provided the refugees false documents, which saved many of their lives. He also saved many Jewish children, for whom he helped to create an orphanage in Vác near Budapest. It is estimated that Henryk Sławik saved...

Director : Marek Maldis, Grzegorz Łubczyk

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 30

Language : English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazi's for saving the lives of nearly 2,000 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto.

Director : John Kent Harrison

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 95

Language : English, French

My Sister Tikva

Prof. Yair Tauman is haunted by a childhood memory which never leaves him - the parting from his sister Tikva, who, on the day of her departure for the United States, learns that she is adopted. Born in Lithuania, she was given to a Christian family that hid her for the duration of the war. For some years she lived with the Tauman family in Israel, and then was separated from them without properly understanding why. She was sent to the US, from where she sent letters to her brother Yair, and he in turn sent letters to her. She continued to live in America, but the letters eventually stopped. Nonetheless, Tauman...

Director : Vered Berman

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 53

Language : English, Hebrew

Underground Rescue Activity - France and Hungary

Documentary film that brings the testimony of men of the underground rescue in Hungary and France about border smuggling, passing information and hiding children. The film makes use of photographs and documents and maps.

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 6

Language : Hebrew

The Art of Silence

A documentary film. The film follows the background of Marcel Marceau. His father was killed in Auschwitz. Marceau joined the French Resistance, and together with his cousin, smuggled Jewish children to safety. The film also sheds a light upon Marceau’s life and form, which inspired and accompanied several generations of artists and lives to this day.

Director : Maurizius Staerkle-Drux

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 81

Language : English, French, German

Ondergedoken - Diel 1 - de cocon

A documentary television series. The 1st episode. The story of the Resistance of Friesland that took care of hiding people ,especially Jews. This resistance was established by Piet Meerburg and together with his sister, Mia Coelingh, who had been the assistant referend of the community of Sneek, and several colleagues. Mong them : Reverend Willem Mesdag and the assistant priest Gerard Janssen. They organized a hideout for Jewish children, especially those smuggled from the Jewish children's daycare center in Amsterdam as known as "De Creche". The film focuses specifically on the personal story of Leah Trop,...

Director : Gerard Van Der Veer

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 30

Language : West Frisian

The Crossing

A feature film. Ten year old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War. Just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda and Otto’s parents are arrested, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two Jewish children, Sarah and Daniel, hidden in a secret cupboard in their basement at home. It is now up to Gerda and Otto to finish what their parents started: To help Sarah and Daniel flee from the Nazis, cross the border to neutral Sweden and reunite them with their parents. The is a film about the confidence, uncompromising...

Director : Johanne Helgeland

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 96

Language : Norwegian

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 1997 - Yoram Friedman

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 1997. Torchlighter Yoram Friedman. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

The Undeground Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary 1944 - The Story of Ephraim-Efra Agmon

סרט תיעודי בשלושה חלקים על פעולות המחתרת החלוצית בהונגריה בשנת 1944, באמצעות סיפורו האישי ופועלו של אפרים אגמון. אגמון מספר על פעילותם במחתרות התנגדות, ציונות, אנטישמיות, פשיזם בהונגריה, גירושים, הוצאות להורג על גדות נהר הדנובה, חיים בגטו, חיים במחבוא, מאבקי הישרדות ועלייה לארץ. כולל סרטי ארכיון המתעדים את בודפשט בזמן המלחמה ובעיקר בזמן הכיבוש הגרמני.

Production Year : 2012

Language : Hebrew

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