Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Episode 10 in director’s Péter Forgács series "Private Hungary" which is based on a home footage that document the daily life of the Hungarians, before, during and after WWII. This experimental film is based on home movies, documenting the family life of Hungarian Jews from 1937 until the German occupation in 1944. This is a joint effort of the film director Péter Forgács and György Pető, an amateur photographer whose dozens of reels of film were made by Forgacs into a cinematic testimony about Hungary during the war and the German occupation.

Director : Peter Forgacs

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 71 75

Language : English, Hungarian

The Maelstrom - A Family Chronicle

This unique documentary uses home footage filmed in Holland before and during WWII, showing events from the daily life of the Peereboom family and other scenes of occupied Holland. The story is told through these footages, as well as family photos and soundtrack that consists of period music, radio broadcasts (such as Queen Wilhelmina's speech of 1940) and authentic jazz music composed by Tibor Szemzo, regular partner of the film director Peter Forgacs. The viewer is exposed to Jewish family living naively in the shadow of the Holocaust and later trying to handle the new unfamiliar life. Among others, there is a...

Director : Peter Forgacs

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 60

Language : English

The Displaced Persons' Camps

Documentary film that brings the testimony of Avraham and Shoshana Roshkovski about the return to life on one hand and the difficulties on the other of Shoah survivors in a displaced persons' camp, through the story of their marriage and the birth of their first son. The film makes use of personal photos of the couple and of other couples in the displaced persons' camp.

Director : Ayelet Heller

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 6

Language : Hebrew

The Dybbuk

Based on the play by S. Ansky, this renowned Yiddish film takes place in the Polish-Russian countryside and tells a mystic love story that involves religious and cultural mores of the Jewish shtetl communities and Polish Jewry on the eve of WWII.

Director : Michal Waszinski

Production Year : 1937

Duration : 128

Language : English, Yiddish

Married with a Star - A Jewish Wedding in Occupied Amsterdam, 1942

This documentary film presents a Jewish wedding that took place in Nazi occupied Holland. On the 25th May 1942, Max Werkendam and Clara de Vries married in the old Jewish quarter in the center of Amsterdam. Max Werkendam was killed in Bergen Belsen. His wife Clara survived the Holocaust. Upon her return to Amsterdam in 1945, after she had been incarcerated in a number of concentration camps, Clara’s personal belongings were surprisingly returned to her, including her wedding film. Later Clara married David Dukker. She forgot about the film for 50 years until it was reconstructed for this film. The...

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 32

Language : Dutch, English