Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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

Director : Lukáš Přibyl

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 90

Language : Czech, English

Escape to the Forest: the Partisans of Mir

Documentary film that brings the testimony of Oswald Rufeisen (Brother Daniel) and Shmuel Czesler about the escape to the nearby forest in an action that was made possible thanks to special conditions that existed in the ghetto. The film makes use of archival photographs and films and texts in Hebrew and English.

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

The Cracow Ghetto

Documentary film that makes use of photographs and brings the testimony of Yehuda Maimon Poldak and Hela Shiffer Rufeisen and the testimony of Rivka Spinner Liebskind at the Eichmann Trial, about the dilemma of the Jewish underground in Cracow, which chose not to undertake resistance activity inside the ghetto, but in the Polish areas of the city.

Director : Noemi Schory

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 6

Language : Hebrew

The Righteous Gentiles

A documentary film. Stefan Grajek about the post war punishment for Paul Grüninger a Swiss Police officer, because of his help in issuing false visas to the Jews after Switzerland had closed its borders. Testimony of Henryk Rolirad, member of the Polish Resistance, about his help in transferring weapons to the Jews in Warsaw. For other stories see additional information.

Director : זאב הר נוף

Production Year : 1971

Duration : 62

Language : Hebrew