Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

5 Results

Film starts with a flashback, showing us a young couple, celebrating their engagement. But the war disrupts their love. He becomes a soldier, she finally finds herself in Auschwitz. The following flashbacks, the memories of Anna, the main character are triggered, when her old flame Piotr, who now lives in the US, comes to visit Poland in the 1980s.

Director : Wanda Jakubowska

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 92

Language : Polish

The Last Stage

Film drama, depicting Auschwitz, in an almost documentary manner, centers around the women's camp and the conditions under which they lived. Martha Weiss, a Jew, is sent to Auschwitz with her family. On the first day of their arrival Martha is, by a coincidence, chosen as an interpreter, but her entire family is killed. Martha, who sees the brutal crimes, the sham of clean-up for the Red Cross, tries to escape under orders from the underground. Captured, she is tortured and dies as Allied planes fly overhead. The two Polish women who wrote and directed this film were themselves prisoners in the Birkenau women's...

Director : Wanda Jakubowska

Production Year : 1948

Duration : 99

Language : German, Polish, Russian

The Hiding Place

A drama film. The film is based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Corrie ten Boom recounting her and her family's experiences before and during their imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust in World War II

Director : James F. Collier

Production Year : 1975

Duration : 147

Language : English

Out of the Ashes

Drama based on the true story of Dr. Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian gynecologist who was incarcerated at Auschwitz during the Second World War. The story of Perl is told in flashbacks while she is being interrogated by the American Immigration Panel as a result of her application for American citizenship after the war. She is forced to deal with accusations of cooperating with the Nazis because she worked as a gynecologist in the camp. Winner of the Emmy for Best Cinematography for a television film or mini series.

Director : Joseph Sargent

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 113

Language : English

הריקוד האחרון של קלרה

סרט תיעודי.

Director : נילי קסלר

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 43

Language : Hebrew