Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Saved By Deportation:An Unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews

In 1940, a year before the Nazis started deporting Jews to death camps, Stalin ordered the deportation of 200,000 Polish Jews from Russian-occupied eastern Poland, to forced labor settlements in the soviet interior. As cruel as Stalin’s deportations were, in the end they largely saved Polish Jewish lives, for deportees constituted the overhelming majority of Polish Jews who escaped the Nazi Holocoust. This documentary follows Asher and Shifra Scharf elderly Chasidic Polish Jews as they travel through Russia and Tajikistan revisiting their places of exile to reconstruct the events of six past decades.

Director : Sławomir Grunberg

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 60

Language : English, Polish, Russian

Stories from the Map - Kolyma

Documentary about the history of Gulag labor camps at Kolyma region. With the participation of: Stanislaw Czuruk, Jan Klak, Waldemar Pomaski, Antoni Skredo, Tomasz Kizny, Malgorzata Gizejewska, Józef Gebski, Alicja Wancerz-Gluza

Director : Agnieszka Trojak

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 45

Language : Polish

Confronting Amnesia - Frozen Memories of the Russian Gulag

This documentary tells the story the Soviet Union's network of forced labor camps used to imprison millions of citizens. The camps, particularly during the reign of Joseph Stalin, were a tool for repression of political opposition and the setting of millions of executions as well as deaths due to exhaustion, hunger and disease. Filmed on location in Siberia, Moscow, Perm and St. Petersburg, the film tells several stories including the search Jon Utley conducted to learn the fate of his father who was taken from the family's home in Russia in 1936. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Utley was able to...

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 54

Language : English

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2012 - Anatoly Yitzchak Rubin

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2011 "My Brother's Keeper - Jewish Solidarity During the Holocaust". Torchlighter Anatoly Yitzchak Rubin. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew