Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

The Debt

A feature film. In the mid-1960s, three Mossad agents went on a mission to kidnap and bring to trial in Israel a Nazi war criminal, the Birkenau Surgeon, who lives in East Berlin under the guise of a gynecologist. They locate him, drug him, hide him, and wait for the order to bring him to Israel. But he manages to escape from them and the three return to Israel not before they fabricate a story that they killed him during an escape attempt. Upon their return to Israel, they are accepted as heroes and over the years make a glorious careers based, among other things, on the wonderous story of heroism. The film...

: אסף ברנשטיין

: 2005

: 100

: Hebrew

Healing by Killing

Documentary film that deals with the place of the medical system in Nazi Germany in the extermination apparatus. Filmed in Germany, Austria, Poland, and Russia, the film includes archival photographs, expert commentary, interviews with survivors of euthanasia operations and present-day photographs of locations where the events took place.

: Nitsan Aviram

: 1996

: 90

: English, German

ZWANGSSTERILISATION UND „EUTHANASIE“ am Beispiel von Dorothea Buck

: Alexandra Pohlmeier

: 2020

: 32

: German

Where are You Taking Us?

Für 89 psychisch kranke oder behinderte BottroperInnen bedeutete der Euthanasie-Befehl der Nazi-Diktatur das Todesurteil. Nur noch fünf Angehörige dieser Opfer hat der Arbeitskreis "Bottroper Opfer der Euthanasie" 2009 ausfindig machen können. Die Berliner Regisseurin Alexandra Pohlmeier hat mit ihnen Interviews geführt. Zum ersten Mal in der Nachkriegsgeschichte sprechen Angehörige von Euthanasieopfern über das Schicksal vor der Kamera. Entstanden ist eine schlichte und eindrucksvolle Dokumentation, in der die Töchter, Schwestern und Enkelinnen der Getöteten ihre Erinnerungen schildern. Diese Interviews...

: Alexandra Pohlmeier

: 2010

: 38

: German