Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Discovery of mass graves of Soviet prisoners of war of the camps near Zeithain.

Director : Richard Groschopp

Production Year : 1946

Duration : 12

Language : German

Threes short- stories (On the road, Letter from the camp, Blood drop) presenting full of tension atmosphere of every day occupation life, From the children's perspective.

Director : Stanislaw Rozewicz

Production Year : 1961

Duration : 99

Language : Polish

Interview with Abraham Backmann - Former POW in Finland

עדות-ריאיון עם אברהם בקמן, שבוי מלחמה בפינלדנד.

Production Year : 2005

Language : Hebrew, Russian

The World At War - Barbarossa, June - December 41

Episode in a 26-part documentary series that presents a detailed survey of World War II. Episode 5 "Barbarossa June-December 1941": Germany, which now controls all of Europe, including the Balkans, turns against the Soviet Union. In the first stages Germany wins destructive victories and its tanks rush forward quickly. But the supreme German command delays, fatefully, and the advance is stopped a number of kilometers from Moscow when the mud comes and later the terrible cold. Includes archival films and testimonies. Narration by the British actor Laurence Olivier.

Director : David Elstein

Production Year : 1974

Duration : 52

Language : English

Hitler's Holocaust - Manhunt

The six-part series surveys the process that led to "The Final Solution" and the ways it was executed through archival films that were discovered in the archives of Eastern Europe, testimonies and historical analysis. The title of the series Holokaust was intentionally written with the letter K instead of C, in accordance with the German spelling in order to remind the viewer that the murder of European Jewry was carried out by the Germans.

Director : Maurice Philip Remy

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 43

Language : German

You Knew That

Documentary film dealing with the reaction of the local population to the horrors in the concentration camps that were revealed when liberation took place. Includes original footage documenting the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald.

Duration : 42

Language : German

Fatalist - The Story of Semyon Rosenfeld

סרט תיעודי. סיפורו של סמיון (שלמה) רוזנפלד. השורד האחרון מהמרד במחנה ההשמדה סוביבור אשר הלך לעולמו בגיל 97 , בחודש יוני 2019.

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 53

Language : Russian

THE MOGEN DAVID OF BARTH ON THE BALTIC

סרט זכרון אישי קצר של הבמאי רון לוין, על אביו, ר' הנרי סטנפורד לוין/Henry Stanford Levine. הנרי לוין היה עו"ד יהודי שנולד וגדל בעיר סירקיוז במדינת ניו יורק. הוא שירת בחיל האוויר האמריקני, ונפל בשבי הנאצי כשבוי מלחמה. ככזה הוחזק עם שבויי מלחמה נוספים במחנה נאצי Stalag Luft 1. הוא הצליח לקיים בחשאי תפילות יהודיות במחנה, תוך שהוא משתמש רק במשולש אחד מתוך סמל המגן דוד. הסרט מבוסס על ספר באותו השם שכתב רון לוין.

Director : Ron Levine

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 13

Language : English

A Lesson in a Dead Language

A Polish Psychological screenplay based on Andrzej Kuśniewicz's novel "A Lesson in a Dead Language". The story and the film take place in the last months of World War I, in a small Galician town. The protagonist, a young Lieutenant of Lancers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Alfred Kiekeritz, due to an advanced case of tuberculosis is shifted to the rear of the front. In the little town of Galicia he serves as commander of the firing squad. He lives in a shabby little Jewish hotel where he is the only guest. Devastated and hopeless, aware that his life is coming to an end he decides to give life a new meaning....

Director : Janusz Majewski

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 96

Language : Polish