Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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A short drama telling the story of a pair of shoes that starts in the shop window and runs all the way to Auschwitz. The work reflects director’s original concept: shoes is the only object in the shot. The creator of " Shoes” tells a story of a Jewish girl from a province town in Europe. We see her through adolescence, as she falls in love, creates a family, and then loses everything to tragedy captured under the heel of fascism. All this is filmed through the point of view of her shoes. "Shoes" is about fate and people's lives lost in the concentration camps, only leaving behind their...

Director : Costa Fam

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 16

Language : Silent Film

The Song and the Silence

Director : נתן כהן

Production Year : 1969

Duration : 35

Language : English

Gestures of Reconciliation - International Short Film Competition, Disc 1

סדרת סרטים קצרים.

Director : Katsiaryna Kamockaya, Viktor Korzuon‬, אסתי עמרמי, דנה לבנט, Hans Stützer, Daniel Erb, Moonika Siimets, Priit Pääsuke, Jaanis Valk

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 117

Language : Belarusian, English, Estonian, German, Hebrew, Russian

Kaddisch After Living Memory

Perry, a clerk in Tel-Aviv in the 1960s, and a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, tries to locate Bach, his friend from the camp. The flashbacks show their humiliation in the hands of the SS guards and their forced labour. Perry visits Yad Vashem and looks for his friend's name in the lists but doesn't find what he is looking for. When he meets Gorfinkel, another survivor of the camp, Perry convinces him to search for Bach. The two decide to search for Bach in an insane asylum in the area but don't find him there. One day Gorfinkel tells Perry that by chance he has found Back. The two hurry to the...

Director : Karl Fruchtmann

Production Year : 1969

Duration : 65

Language : German

The 5th Question

A homade drama film. Homemade video set in America seeking to answer the fifth question that the producers believe one should ask at the Passover seder- why did the Holocaust happen?

Director : Talia Lugacy

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 40

Language : English

Getting Away with Murder(s)

A documentary. Almost 1 million people in 22 countries carried out the unprovoked murder of 11 million innocent men, women and children. 99% of those responsible were never prosecuted; most were never even questioned. Despite the extensive cinema documentary coverage of the Holocaust to date, not one has explored in any depth the almost total lack of justice, statistically, towards the vast numbers of eagerly participating perpetrators who, at war's end, simply walked away -- untouched by justice. This film addresses this glaring omission.

Director : David Wilkinson

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 175

Language : English

The Audio-Visual Dimension of Holocaust Memory - Liat ben-Habib to Rotary International Holocaust Memorial day 2023

A recoded doscussion. The Audio-Visual Dimension of Holocaust Memory - Liat ben-Habib to Rotary International Holocaust Memorial day 2023. the topic was the Audio-Visual Dimension of Holocaust Memory. How was the Holocaust portrayed by cinema in the past 8 decades, and how can we learn about it from the digital film collection of Yad Vashem, comprising data on 14,000 titles? Are there still new stories to be told in film? What are Cinema's new challenges in bringing the history to present viewers?

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 59

Language : English

Museum

A documentary film. Auschwitz was a concentration and an extermination camp. Now it is a museum, visited by two million visitors of any age, gender, culture and nationality per year. The film tries to portrait these anonymous visitors. After entering into the horror of the place, one can hear their conversation and conclude what Auschwitz means to each one of them nowadays.

Director : Yonathan Levy

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 73

Language : Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish

המנדט - משכנים לאויבים

סדרת תעודה. הסדרה אודות תולדות הסכסוך הערבי הישראלי. הפרק השני.

Director : ירון ניסקי, אבי מרקדו-אטדגי

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 56

Language : Arabic, English, Hebrew

Gefilte Fish

A short stop animation movie. It's intergenerational trauma stemming from the genocidal killing of half of Lanina's father’s family during world war two. The animation examines the societal and personal truth which perpetuates the cycle of abuse. The animation is dedicated to Lanina's grandmother's family who were killed by the Nazis and local police along with 1.6 million Ukrainian Jews. This project sheds light on how survivors’ trauma carries over to next generations, aided by reluctance of the families to deal with uncomfortable dynamics. With this project Lanina aims to look back at the human catastrophe of...

Director : Yuliya Lanina

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 7

Language : English

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