Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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A doumentary film. The Nazis plundered cultural property from every territory they occupied. This was conducted in a systematic manner with organisations specifically created to determine which public and private collections were most valuable to the Nazi regime. As the Allied forces bombed Germany’s cities and historic institutions, the Nazis began storing the stolen artworks in salt mines and caves for protection from Allied bombing raids. One of these salt mines was in Altaussee in Austria. As the Allied troops approached the salt mine, Gauleiter August Eigruber gave orders to blow it up. The destruction...

Director : Petra Dorrmann, André Schäfer

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 52

Language : English, German

The European Dream

A documentary. The film tells the story of an collection which was robbed in world war two. This a journey back in time to the cultural and artistic world of the Jews of Berlin pre-world War II. Joined this journey Roberto Graetz, whose grandfather owned a collection of 250 artworks. On that journey we encountered the world of art saturated with struggles, and attempts to control those works of art today, to the dream and its eradication.

Director : Mooly Landesman

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 75

Language : English, German, Hebrew, Spanish

The Scar of the Earth

A short documentary. It follows the tracks of a Jewish family in Kyiv and tells the story of horrific episode of the Holocaust. A little black cross traced on the photograph indicated the approximate place where the familyr was buried. The German army entered Kyiv on September 22, 1941. On September 28, all Jews of the city were called to a meeting place with their documents and personal possessions. On September 29, at dawn, thousands of Jews left their places with their suitcases and provision ,they were preparing for the long trip. Today Babi Yar is an understated remembrance place, that deserted park seems...

Director : Macha Ovtchinnikova

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 10

The Claim: The Search for Stolen Art from WWII

סרט תיעודי. סרט אודות 'ועדת התביעות ההולנדית'/Dutch Restitutions Committee , הבודקת תביעות של ניצולי שואה יהודים בנוגע לאוצרות אומנות שנגנבו מהם על ידי הנאצים במהלך מלחמת העולם השנייה. מוזיאונים ויחידים עדיין מגלים יצירות אומנות , ממקור מפוקפק ומנסים לאתר את הבעלים החוקיים. כדי למצוא פתרון, ועדת התביעות מייעצת הן למי שמגיש את התביעה והן למוזיאונים. לציין כי המוזיאונים אינם ששים לוותר על היצירות הללו. אחד מאותם תובעים או ליאון טוקי/Lion Tokkie, אשר תובע בשמו של יצחק ישראל/Isaac Israels’s שצייר את הציור Children on the Beach. ציור זה תלוי במוזיאון בארנהם/Arnhem.

Director : Ditteke Mensink

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 91

Language : Dutch

היטלר נגד פיקסו וכל השאר – האובססיה הנאצית לאמנות

This is an incredible journey through five exhibitions, displaying masterpieces by Botticelli, Klee, Matisse, Monet, Chagall, Renoir, and Gauguin. Linked to each exhibition are moving stories of those who witnessed their systematic destruction and looting by the Nazis. The film offers a rare look at condemned art.

Director : Claudio Poli

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 94

Language : Italian

Also Life is an Art - The Case of Max Emden גם החיים הם אומנות-סיפורו של מקס אמדן

A documentary film. Hardly anyone knows the name Max Emden today. Born in Hamburg in 1874, the son of a respected Jewish merchant family, Emden was a department store king who built an exceptional art collection. In 1928, Emden moved to Switzerland, but the Nazis gradually confiscated his assets and he died impoverished in 1940. Almost 80 years later, Max Emden’s heirs are still fighting for compensation. With the help of explosive documents, private film footage, and historical testimonies, the film recounts the rise and destruction of a Hanseatic family through the violence of the Nazi regime.

Director : Eva Gerberding, André Schäfer

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 90

Language : English, German