Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Le Tortillard - Le Petit Train de Castres à Murat et à Brassac

סרט תיעודי על קו רכבת שפעל באיזור הפרטיזנים בדרום-מערב צרפת. מנהל תחת הרכבת Lacaune מר' לה-פרב (Lefebvre) הוכר לא מכבר כחסיד אומות העולם.

Director : Albert Mahuzier

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 16

Language : French

The Last Train

A feature film taking place in Germany 1943. The story of a group of Jews, from the point of being arrested to their foreseeable end in a concentration camp. In the last days of WWII they were penned up in cattle cars of a “special train” and carried off to Auschwitz, like thousands of Jewish people. In the course of this agonising journey more than half of them die of thirst. The episodes from some of the families’ previous lives shown in flashbacks are in stark contrast to what they are enduring. Yet the doomed occupants' will to live in spite of their claustrophobic and shattering situation in the cattle car...

Director : Joseph Vilsmaier, Dana Vávrová

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 122

Language : German

Europa (zentropa)

This drama film tells of Leopold, a young American of German descent, , whose uncle gets him a job as a night train conductor in post WWII Germany. While traveling in the train all over Germany, he realizes that the company he works for produced the very trains that transported the Jews to their deaths in the Nazi death camps. Zentropa is the third film of the Danish film director Lars von Trier in a trilogy that explores Europe on the verge of waking up from WWII. The two preceding films were: “The Element of Crime” (1984) and “Epidemic” (1987). Most of the film that was shot in black and white won the Jury...

Director : Lars Von Trier

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 108

Language : Danish, English

Pigeon

Short student film based on the true story describing an occurrence in 1941 on a train from Remies to Grenoble in occupied France. A Jew, traveling without papers, is unexpectedly saved from the Nazis by an unknown woman traveling on the train. The film, made by Anthony Green, a third-year student of cinematography at NYU, was screened at the Jerusalem and Eilat festivals and other festivals around the world.

Director : Anthony Green

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 11

Language : English

Into the Arms of Strangers - Stories of the Kindertransport

Documentary film that describes the "Kindertransports", an operation to rescue Jewish children from the Nazi terror which was organized a short time before the outbreak of World War II. Around 10,000 children, mostly Jewish, were sent from countries under German rule to adoptive families and hostels in England. Only a few were fortunate to meet their parents again at the end of the war. Includes testimonies and archival films. Winner of the Oscar Award in the category of best documentary film in 2000. Narration by the British actress Judy Dench.

Director : Mark Jonathan Harris

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 120

Language : English

Bernshtein – Journey to the Light

A docudrama.. The story of Leonid Bernshtein, a young Jewish soldier who became commander during world war II. The film follows the story of Berenstein’s life in the woods of Ukraine and Poland. He became Commander of a partizan battalion.. He was also responsible for destroying the development facility of the Nazi V-2 rocket.

Director : רומן שומונוב

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 105

Language : Russian

The Train Journey

A Documentary film by Willy Lindwer. The Train Journey tells the unusual and unbenounced story of five train journeys made by 89 Hungarian Jews and their Dutch families from occupied Holland to as yet unoccupied Budapest. After the Nazi invasion of Hungary in 1944, most of these Jews escaped deportation thanks in part to the courageous intervention by the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallendberg. The majority of the survivors returned safely to Holland after the war.

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 61

Language : Dutch, Hebrew

Polish Roads - Part 6

This is the epic story with many threads. The series starts in september 1939, during the German invasion of Poland. It shows different reactions of polish people to this and to the later occupation. Some are resisting, some try to accomodate, some try to live as if nothing happened.

Director : Janusz Morgenstern

Production Year : 1976

Duration : 90

Language : Polish

Closely Watched Trains

A feature film. It's based on Bohumil Hrabal's novel of the same name, A Czech railroad worker during the Nazi occupation. He undergoes several philosophical changes as he becomes attracted to the Czech underground. Determining at last that his own existence hardly matters in the scheme of things, Neckar volunteers for a suicide mission. It won the Oskar in 1968.

Director : Jirí Menzel

Production Year : 1966

Duration : 93

Language : Czech

The Trains

A short film depicting the rounding up of the Jews - both young and old - in different part of Europe and their subsequent transportation to the Nazi concentration camps.

Director : John Power

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 04

Language : Silent Film