Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Is the story of violinist Bronislaw Huberman, who, in 1936, selected 70 of the best Jewish musicians fired by the Nazis, and moved them to Palestine to form the future Israel Philharmonic, saving them from the Holocaust.

Director : Josh Aronson

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 85

Language : English

Pillar of Fire, Part 10 - Trapped (1938-1939)

Director : Gideon Drori, Shlomo Arad

Production Year : 1986

Duration : 60

Language : English, German, Hebrew

Salvador: The Ship of Shattered Hopes

A documentary. The long-forgotten tale of migrant ship, The Salvador, that set sail from Bulgaria en route to Palestine in 1940, carrying 352 passengers on board before sinking by the Turkish coast. Of all the passengers on the ship, only 122 survived. Combining archive material and interviews with the survivors, this documentary tells the story of The Salvador and of Bulgarian Jews’ ill-fated migration efforts, whilst lingering on the way the tragedy was received by the land’s Jewish communities of the time.

Director : Nissim Mossek

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 83

Language : Bulgarian, English, Hebrew

Pillar of Fire, Part 4 - Who's Afraid of Jewish State 1937 - 1939

Produced by the Israeli Television, this documentary series deals with the history of Zionism till the establishment of the State of Israel. First episode of this 4-years complicated production aired in 1981 and created a public stir and controversy regarding the presentation of the Sephardim Jewry contribution to the Zionist movement. “Pillar of Fire” us based on archival films and photos takes from 30 archives, both in Israel and abroad, interviews and illustrations. This short 7-episodes version of the series was produced for foreign markets. Narration by British actor Ian MacCellen.

Director : Shlomo Arad

Production Year : 1986

Language : English

המנדט - משכנים לאויבים

סדרת תעודה. הסדרה אודות תולדות הסכסוך הערבי הישראלי. הפרק השני.

Director : ירון ניסקי, אבי מרקדו-אטדגי

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 56

Language : Arabic, English, Hebrew

אוהלי פלמ"ח - ליל וינגייט ונפילתה של ברכה פולד

סרט תיעודי קצר. אירועי ליל 26 במרץ 1946 בתל אביב: ניסיונה הכושל של ספינת המעפילים "אורד וינגייט" לפרוץ את ההסגר הימי הבריטי ולהגיע לחוף תל אביב. כוחות ההגנה והפלמ"ח נערכו לחסום את כניסתם של הבריטים לעיר, כדי לאפשר לספינה להגיע לחוף ולהחביא את העולים בבתים. ברכה פולד, לוחמת פלמ"ח בת 19, שפיקדה על עמדה כזאת ברחוב מרמורק בתל אביב, נהרגה בהיתקלות עם כוח משטרה בריטי. הסרט סוקר את השתלשלות האירועים של פעולת ההגנה והפלמ"ח עם סיפור חייה הקצרים של ברכה פולד.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 32

Language : English

804 - South Africans Volunteer in Israel's War of Independence

A documentary about the South African volunteers who fought in Israel's War of Independence in 1948. Told mostly through interviews with the surviving South African Machalniks, this is a unique firsthand account of a widely overlooked group's essential contribution to Israel's early survival. Many of the stories conveyed here have never before been printed, recorded or circulated. These intimate personal testimonies feature within a broader historical narrative of the time, incorporating interviews withe leading scholars of Jewish history such as professor Milton Shain and Sir Martin Gilbert.

Director : Etienne Naude

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 53

Language : English

In the Shadows of Beau Bassin

Documentary tells the story of former Mauritian Geoff Geffroy's search to discover the roots of his Jewish identity against the backdrop of the incarceration of 1 670 Jewish refugees who were deported to Mauritius after attempting to reach Palestine from Nazi-occupied Europe and detained there by the British government for the remainder of the war. Beau Bassin was the name of the prison in which the refugees were held from 1940 to 1945.

Director : Kevin Harris

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 48

Language : English