Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

יהודי אינדונזיה

Summary: A television documentary about the Jewish community in Indonesia during World War II. In the 1930s and during World War II, many Jews from Eastern Europe arrived in Indonesia and settled there. Evidence of the prosperity of Jewish life in Indonesia during the interwar period is the Zionist newspaper "Erets Israel" which appeared from 1926 to the beginning of the Japanese occupation continuously. At the same time, even before the Japanese occupation, the Jews suffered from anti-Semitism, mainly by Dutch elements who later became part of the Dutch Nazi Party. In January 1942, Indonesia was occupied...

results.listIds.director : איתי ורד

results.listIds.year : 2006

results.listIds.duration : 18

results.listIds.lang : English, Hebrew

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...

results.listIds.director : אסף ברנשטיין

results.listIds.year : 2005

results.listIds.duration : 100

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Marathon Man

דסטין הופמן הסהרורי מגלם בוגר אוניברסיטה פופולרי המעביר את זמנו בין ריצות מרתון להצטיינות בלימודיו האקדמיים. בלי להתכוון הופמן עולה על מזימה קונספירטיבית מסוכנת, בה מעורבים אחיו, סוכן סמוי בבולשת הפדרלית ונאצי סאדיסט, הידוע כ"המלאך הלבן מאושוויץ" (הדמות מבוססת על דמותו של דוקטור מנגלה). הנאצי משליט טרור ומענה אנשים בקור רוח מפחיד על מנת להבריח יהלומים נדירים מגבולות ארה"ב לאירופה. סצנת העינויים המבחילה בסרט קוצרה לאחר שהקהל יצא מהאולמות סגול וחולני...

results.listIds.director : John Schlesinger

results.listIds.year : 1976

results.listIds.duration : 125

results.listIds.lang : English

Lerner's Revenge

Summary: This documentary accompanies Ronny Lerner, an Israeli businessman, on his journey to, and in Poland in order to try and understand what happened to his family in the Holocaust. Lerner discovers that after the family had run away from their village in Poland, his father, Yitzhak Lerner, lived in Warsaw with two women under assumed identities. At the end of the war Lerner senior returned to the place where his family was murdered in order to get revenge. Now Lerner the son arrives there in order to see for himself where everything happened and he even manages to get to the last murderer. The...

results.listIds.director : Gilad Tokatly

results.listIds.year : 2006

results.listIds.duration : 60

results.listIds.lang : English, Hebrew, Polish

Daily Life in Concentration Camps

Documentary film that brings the testimony of four survivors who describe their lives, daily coping and the difficulties of life in the camps.

results.listIds.director : Ayelet Heller, Itay Ken-Tor

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 15

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Unofficial Routes of Escape

Testimonies of inhabitants of the border villages, Germany, Belgium. Jews taken in by local (German) population and re-routed to Belgium by various chains of helpers. Now a conspiracy of silence about these events.

results.listIds.director : Dietrich Schubert

results.listIds.year : 1991

results.listIds.duration : 93

results.listIds.lang : German

Resistance et pardon

סרט תיעודי על מאיטי גרטנר/ Maïti Girtanner, לוחמת המחתרת הצרפתית במלחמת העולם השנייה, שנעצרה על ידי הגסטפו ועונתה קשות. כעבור ארבעה עשורים היא חיפשה את המענה שלה, שמת בשנות השמונים.

results.listIds.director : Michel Farin

results.listIds.year : 2005

results.listIds.lang : French

Om Karlek

סרט תיעודי על מהות האהבה. במרכז הסרט דמותה של צעירה, מאיטי גרטנר, נעצרת על ידי גסטפו בזמן שהיא עובדת בתנועת ההתנגדות הצרפתית במלחמת העולם השנייה. היא מעונה קשה. כאשר 40 שנה לאחר מכן היא מחפשת על ידי המענה שלה, שמת עכשיו, ונשאלת: "מה עלי לעשות? אני כל כך מפחד עד מוות, "היא עונה," יש רק אחד, תשקיע את כל זמנך הנותר לאהבה! "

results.listIds.director : Ingela Romare, Lena Westerberg‬‏

results.listIds.year : 2004

results.listIds.duration : 56

results.listIds.lang : English, French, Swedish

Meine liebe Republik

A documentary film. As a child Friedrich Zawrel was a victim of the evil Nazi system; as part of their racial cleansing program he was imprisoned, tortured and almost murdered. He survived all that. But when the Nazi dictatorship was over, and Friedrich Zawrel sought his fortune in the new Second Republic which had been created in Austria, he found himself confronted once again by the evil spirits of his past - in the shape of the former Nazi doctor Heinrich Gross.

results.listIds.director : Elisabeth Scharang

results.listIds.year : 2007

results.listIds.duration : 80

results.listIds.lang : German

Accused of Planning the World War III

A documentary portrait of Karol Noskovič, the activist of the Slovak Confederation of the Political Prisoners, who was in his youth unfairly accused and imprisoned.

results.listIds.director : Juraj Brocko

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 27

results.listIds.lang : Czech

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