Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2003 - David (Yorek) Plonski

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2003. Torchlighter David (Yorek) Plonski. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew

Comandant Edelman

When one hears the words "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" in Israel, the name that immediately comes to mind is Mordecai Anielewicz, leader of the uprising from the Zionist Shomer HaTzair movement. Until not long ago, few in Israel knew much about Marek Edelman-the representative of the non-Zionist socialist Bund in the uprising, and the one who took command after Anielewicz's death. After the War, Edelman chose to stay in Poland rather than immigrate to Israel like many of his comrades-in-arms, although he stayed in contact with colleagues such as Antek Zuckerman and Zvia Lubetkin. Edelman studied medicine in Łodz,...

Director : Artur Więcek „baron”

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 56

Language : Polish

A Day in October

During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's planned round-up and delivery to concentration camps of all Jews. Story is told from the point of view of one Jewish family. English dialogue and U.S. actors top-cast

Director : Kenneth Madsen

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 99

Language : Danish, English

Landscapes of Resistance

A documentary biograghic movie. Sonja Vujanovic was one of the first women who joined the partisan resistance movement in Yugoslavia. She was inspired by the revolutionary books she received from a classmate in high school, she joined the communist and antifascist organization in the late 1930s and in 1941 became a partisan fighter in German-occupied Serbia. She was captured, tortured and after several other prisons and concentration camps taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. There she became a member of the resistance and a leader of its combat unit. Landscapes of her revolutionary life as they exist today , the...

Director : Marta Popivoda

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 95

Language : Serbian-Croatian

ריפאגן הבלתי פגיע

A feature film. This is an epic of a real gangster and war profiteer who betrayed countless Jews in WWII Amsterdam. A foremost figure of the Dutch underworld, the menacing Dries Riphagen was a slick and unscrupulous con artist, most infamously remembered by history as a fervent Jew hunter. As a Nazi collaborator, Riphagen was tasked with tracking down Jews in hiding and confiscating their valuables. Using blackmail to extort small fortunes in jewels, property and currency, he would later betray the location of Jewish families and turn them over to the Germans to meet their fates

Director : Pieter Kuijpers

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 131

Language : Dutch, English, German

Resistance

A feature film. Before he was the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. This film tells the story of heroes who put themselves in harm’s way to rise above hatred and oppression during World War II. As a young man growing up in Nazi-occupied Europe, Marcel has no intention of getting involved in the war . His life is thrown into upheaval when he is recruited into the French Resistance, putting his acting skills to the ultimate test in teaching orphaned Jewish...

Director : Jonathan Jakubowicz

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 117

Language : English, German

Το Ολοκαύτωμα του Κομμένου Άρτας

A short documentary film. This film tells the story of the massacre of Kommeno. At dawn on 16 August, 120 men of the 12th Company of the 98th Regiment of the 1st Mountain Division under the command of Leutnant Willibald Röser drove to Kommeno on lorries. On the previous night, the regiment commander Oberst Josef Salminger had given them a short, fierce speech alleging that they were going to wipe out a partisan nest and ordering them to spare no one. Most of the men had been fighting in the Eastern Front and they were accustomed to carrying out similar reprisals against the local population. The soldiers...

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 22

Language : Greek