Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Ungarische Zwangsarbeiterinnen in Allendorfer - Erinnerungen von Zeitzeuginnen

ראיונות עם ניצולות שואה מהונגריה, אסירות מחנה ריכוז אלנדורף.

results.listIds.year : 2011

results.listIds.duration : 26

results.listIds.lang : German

Zwangsarbeit in Allendorfer - Sprengstoffwerken 1944-45, Erinnerungen Ungarische Jüdinnen

ראיונות עם ניצולות שואה מהונגריה, אסירות מחנה ריכוז אלנדורף.

results.listIds.year : 2011

results.listIds.duration : 26

results.listIds.lang : German

Born in Concentration Camp

Between December 1944 and February 1945, seven Jewish women brought children into the world amidst the terror of Kaufering I, one of Dachau’s eleven satellite camps. While pregnancies were not uncommon in the camps, women and their children were usually murdered. The exhibition in Dachau traces the story of these seven survivors: their lives before deportation, their arrival and imprisonment in the terror camps, their experiences as female prisoners, the discovery of the pregnancies and birth of the children, the reaction of the SS, and finally forced evacuation, liberation and their lives following the...

results.listIds.director : Eva Gruberová, Martina Gawaz

results.listIds.year : 2010

results.listIds.duration : 44

results.listIds.lang : German

Forgotten Transports to Estonia

Documentary about the lesser known transports of the Czechoslovakian Jews to the concentration camps in Estonia. The testimonies of the survivors are complemented by the unique archive material.

results.listIds.director : Lukáš Přibyl

results.listIds.year : 2008

results.listIds.duration : 85

results.listIds.lang : Czech, Russian

Women of the Shoah

This testimonial film made by the University of La Matanza for Holocaust-Shoah Museum of Buenos Aires, recounts the ordeal of Jewish women went through during the Holocaust. Through interviews with 6 survivors of concentration camps, ghettos and actions of resistance under Nazi rule, shows the essential role of fighting against oppression, abuse, degradation and death.

results.listIds.director : Diego Csome, Rosana Gatti

results.listIds.year : 2007

results.listIds.duration : 45

results.listIds.lang : Spanish

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...

results.listIds.director : Wanda Jakubowska

results.listIds.year : 1948

results.listIds.duration : 99

results.listIds.lang : German, Polish, Russian

La Esteticién

The Nazi physician Joseph Mengele devoted part of his experimental tests on human beings to proving that red-haired women had a different sensitivity level. The narrator, Emmy Blum, is a 76-year old beautician who works in São Paulo. She was deported from Hungary in 1944 and she saw Mengele for the first time in Auschwitz's main courtyard. Some weeks later, she became one of his guinea pigs. After the war, their paths met again in Brazil. Sixty years later, Emmy agrees on taking part in a documentary film about her life. Before the viewer, the movie shifts gears, becoming a reflection about the memory traps and...

results.listIds.director : Sergio Oksman

results.listIds.year : 2004

results.listIds.duration : 96

results.listIds.lang : Portuguese

שיחה של מיכל גוברין עם שרה פפר (מהעשירייה) - חלק 1

results.listIds.director : Michal Govrin

results.listIds.year : 2004

The Rolling Road

Frankfurt Rhein-Main, the biggest airport of the european continent, has three runways. There were rumours about the building of the first one immediately after World War II; Hungarian women had to build the runway for Hitler's silver bullet, the jet Me 262. In the seventies young workers found first evidence that Jewish girls and women from Auschwitz were brought to Maerfelden-Walldorf. This was dispatched as communist propaganda for a long time. Not until the 90s when a new generation tries to explore the history of their region. A historian and a grade of school set off to find survivors, listen to...

results.listIds.director : Bernhard Türcke, Malte Rauch, Eva Voosen

results.listIds.year : 2003

results.listIds.duration : 87

results.listIds.lang : English, German, Hungarian

My Underground Mother

A documentary. It tells the story of trauma and resilience of women survivors of Nazi slave labor, focusing on Jewish, Polish native, Tamar-Fromer Fox. After the war she maimmigrated to Erets Israel and spent fighting in the Israeli underground and army. After that she immigrated to the United States, changed her name and age, and kept her World War II experiences a secret. As she moved through American life, from college to medical school to matrimony and motherhood, Fromer-Fox chipped away more of her past. To her American peers and family, she presented herself as a former freedom fighter, a femme fatale, a...

results.listIds.director : Fox-Beevilacqua, Marisa

results.listIds.year : 2020

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