Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Documentary. During the 2nd World War the threat of total extinction hung over the Jews in Europe, given the silence of democratic countries and the Jewish Diaspora. After the war, the Poles ran a propaganda campaign designed to cleanse their conscience of the stain of indifference of Poland in relation to the extermination of its Jews, and to answer the allegations that Poland collaborated with the German extermination of the Jews. They highlighted the help Poland gave Jews and as a result the risks Poles were exposed to from their German occupiers. The film tells the history of Polish Jewry beginning in the...

Director : Jagna Wright, Aneta Naszyńska

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 41

Language : Polish

Jews in the Warsaw Uprising 1944

מקומם של לוחמים יהודים ב"מרד וורשה הפולני", 1.8.1944 - 2.10.1944, אשר דוכא ע"י הגרמנים. עדויות ראייה, תצלומי וסרטי ארכיון.

Director : Anna Ferens, Anna Kowalewska-Onaszkiewicz

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 56

Language : Polish

German Newsreels no. 731 (7/9/44), 732 (14/9/44), 734 (28/9/44).

German Newsreel no. 731 (7 September, 1944): Agriculture: mountain-farmer family working; 70-year-old farmer working his hereditary farm (Erbhof); Reich Labor Service men and women help. Women working to aid war effort: women register for work; members of German Film Ballet work in Berlin defense plant; women do factory work once done only by men; kindergarten at defense plant for working mothers' children. Vice Admiral Heye decorates a lieutenant and one-man-torpedo pilots; Admiral Doenitz adds his congratulations. Western Front: motorized units roll to front; crossing streams on ferries and pontoon...

Production Year : 1944

Duration : 34 36

Language : German

Cursed Soldiers. Fate of Rebellious

סרט דוקומנטרי המתאר את מאבקם של אנשי המחתרת הפולנית AK שנלחמה במלחמת העולם השנייה נגד הנאצים.

Director : Wincenty Ronisz

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 58

Language : Polish

The World At War - Pincers, August 44 - March 45

Episode in a 26-part documentary series that presents a detailed survey of World War II. Episode 19 - "Pincers, August 1944-March 1945": With the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944, the war seemed almost over to some people. The Russians from the east and the allies from the south and west were prepared for advancing to Germany. At this stage, disagreements between Montgomery and Eisenhower reached a critical stage. Includes archival films and testimonies. Narration by the British actor Laurence Olivier.

Director : Peter Batty

Production Year : 1974

Duration : 52

Language : English

The Carousel

Documentary film that presents eyewitness testimonies by Poles and survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto who tell about life in the ghetto and outside in Warsaw under Nazi occupation. The name of the film comes from the Carousel outside the ghetto that was near the wall and there are testimonies that it worked as usual during the Jewish revolt in the ghetto. Includes archival films.

Director : Michał Nekanda-Trepka

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 33 35

Language : Polish

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2004 - Zvi Kratz

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2004 "Until The Last Jew... Until The Last Name". Torchlighter Zvi Kratz. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew