Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Hourban - Sonderkommando, Auschwitz-Birkenau

In the days following the Red Army’s entry into the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration complex on 27th January 1945, buried under the ashes around the crematoriums were discovered several manuscripts hidden in makeshift containers. The manuscripts of Zalmen Gradowski, Leib Langfus and Zalmen Lewental were written in Yiddish. Their authors were Sonderkommandos. These « special teams » of prisoners were in charge of operating the crematoriums and subsidiary installations in the death industry conceived by the Nazis: undressing rooms, gas chambers, furnaces and incineration ditches.

Director : Emil Weiss

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 52

Language : French

Kitty - Return to Auschwitz

This documentary tells the story of English radiographer Kitty Hart's return to the Auschwitz camp. Accompanied by her son, Kitty, who lived in the camp between the ages of 16 and 18, paints a portrait of life in the camp. Kitty-- Return to Auschwitz won several international awards, including the Royal Television Society Documentary Award, the Commonwealth Film and Television Festival Award and the 1985 Tokyo Prize.

Director : Peter Morley

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 70

Language : English

Memory

Jewish-Italians Auschwitz survivors who were in their teens during the Holocaust tell their stories: post war childhood, the change in their lives with the racial legislation in 1938, arrests and deportations of the Jews with the invasion of Germany to Italy in September 1943 and the establishment of the pro-German puppet government located at Salo, escape attempts to Switzerland through Milan, deportations to Auschwitz, the procedure of execution the gas chambers (Shlomo Venezia, former Sonderkommando), the singular bond between Rome's Jewish Ghetto residents, liberation. Narration by Italian actor...

Director : Ruggero Gabbai

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 82

Language : Italian

Pillar of Fire, Part 13 - Heroes and Martyrs (1942-1943)

סדרת תעודה בהפקת ערוץ 1 של הטל' הישראלית העוסקת בתולדות התנועה ציונות עד הקמת מדינת ישראל. העבודה על הסדרה החלה ב-1975 ונמשכה כ-4 שנים. שידורה לראשונה ב-1981, עורר וויכוח ציבורי על רקע מחלוקת בעניין ייצוג תרומת יהדות ספרד למפעל הציוני בסדרה. "עמוד האש" מבוססת על תצלומים וסרטי ארכיון מ-30 ארכיונים בארץ ובעולם, ראיונות עם עדי ראייה, ציורים, וגרפיקה. גרסה זאת של הסדרה היא הגרסה המלאה בת ה- 19 פרקים. קריינות מאת השחקן יוסי בנאי.

Director : Gideon Drori

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 60

Language : English

Pillar of Fire, Part 12 - The Final Solution (1941-1942)

Director : Gideon Drori, Nissim Mossek

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 60

Language : English

Choosing One's Way - Resistance in Auschwitz Birkenau

This documentary deals with the little-known resistance of summer 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Through the smuggling of gunpowder from a nearby munitions factory, the inmates succeed in rising up against their oppressors and in the destruction of Crematorium 4. "If not for the living, so for dying in honor", says one of the thirteen witnesses who tell their story here. Harsh testimonies from the survivors; imprisonment in the camp, the resistance, and circumstances of their survival. Narration and presentation by, Ellen Burstyn, the academy awards winner American actress.

Director : Allen Secher, Ted Kay

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 30

Language : English

Golgotha

This is a monodrama written by Shmuel Rafael and acted by Victor Attar. It tells the story of Albert Salvado, a traditional Greek Jew who lost his whole family in the Holocaust. His story exemplifies the stories of Ladino speaking Jews in the Holocaust. Salvado, his wife, and two daughters, were sent to Auschwitz in the Winter of 1943. In the camp he worked in the "Sonderkommandos" - a unit of prisoners who aided with the killing process. He witnessed the murder of his wife. Salvado survived the war, immigrated to Israel and in a modest one-room apartment in Tel-Aviv, re-enacts his life story starting from...

Director : Geula Yefet-Atar

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 66

Language : Hebrew, Ladino

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Final part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Liberation and Revenge’ completes the history of Auschwitz. As the end of the war approached, Auschwitz officers tried to hide the evidence of their crimes but were not completely successful. After liberation, survivors searched for their family and tried to return to their prewar homes, but former communities and neighbors did not always welcome them. As evidence of war crimes emerged, some senior SS officers were tried and convicted; others were allowed to resume their lives. Over 4 years, 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz and 1.1 million people died...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Fifth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Murder and Intrigue’ explores the web of international politics spun during the last nine months of 1944. By that spring, the Allies knew about Auschwitz and had the military capability to bomb it. Yet despite the pleas of Jewish leaders, the British and Americans decided not to bomb the railways or gas chambers. During the spring and summer, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz at a time when the killing machinery had been honed to perfection. That autumn saw a significant act of resistance in Auschwitz, when a group of Jewish...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution

Forth part in the BBC 6-part documentary series; ‘Corruption’ reveals why Auschwitz was unique in the Nazi state as the only site that was both a concentration and an extermination camp. The reason was simple-money. At Auschwitz, the Nazis wanted to kill "useless mouths" instantly and work stronger prisoners to death as slave laborers in places like the nearby IG Farben factory. Meanwhile, the SS profited from the belongings of those they killed-so much so, that in the summer of 1943, an investigation was launched into corruption in the camp and the commandant was removed. Elsewhere, individuals and nations are...

Director : Laurence Rees

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

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