Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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The story about Milos Orel, who at the age 15 together with his family were deported from their family home in Slovenia to a Croatian concentration camp during WWII.

Director : Vesna Orel

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 43

Language : Serbian-Croatian, Slovenian

Underground

This comical drama reflects the history of Yugoslavia since the beginning of WWII to recent conflicts in Balcanian countries. Behind the comedy is hidden the pain of whole generations, which have suffered WWII, The Cold War, the war in Yugoslavia and Communism. The film shows us the reality, as seen by those who feel unlimited love for their country and culture. Marko and Blacky represent the true leaders of country, the soul of nation and not without controversies. Winner of Golden Palm, the first price at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1996, members of the Yugoslavian Board of the Academy of Film Art and Science...

Director : Emir Kusturica

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 167

Language : Serbian-Croatian

We Always Walked Together – The Story of Lili Gomboš

A short documentary. Lili Gomboš, born in 1930, lived in Zagreb until the beginning of the Second World War. After the outbreak of war, she managed to escape with part of her family from the Independent State of Croatia to Dalmatia, to the territory under Italian administration. From November 1942 she was interned in the camp in Kraljevica, and then from June 1943 in the camp on the island of Rab. In 1944, she was taken via Trieste to Auschwitz-Birkenau and survived the war through a set of circumstances. Her entire family was killed in the Holocaust, except for her sister Estera who joined the Partisans and...

Director : Zvika Nevo

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 31

Language : Croatian

Body of Truth גוף האמת

A documentary film. The movie accompanies four artists on an emotional journey through their biographies. They come from different cultures that have strongly influenced their artistic work. They stand for the major conflicts of our time: Iranian exile Shirin Neshat examines the discrepancies within Islamic society; Marina Abramović, the daughter of Montenegrin partisans, has repeatedly explored the issues of violence, pain and grief, as experienced indirectly in the Yugoslav wars; the German Katharina Sieverding examines the problem of fascist structures, from the Nazi era to Pegida and Israeli artist Sigalit...

Director : Evelyn Schels

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 96

Language : English, German

BABY FROM THE PACKAGE

A short documentary film by Jakov Sedlar. The film tells the story of Dina Büchler, who eas only a baby when her parents were deported to cocentration camps in Croatia. Dina was sved by her mother's prewar freind .Djina Gertruda Beritić, and her son Tihomil. On July 13, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Djina Gertruda Beritić and her son, Tihomil Beritić, as Righteous Among the Nations

Director : Jakov Sedlar

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 32

Language : Croatian, English

The Great Years 1941-1945

Review of the war in Yugoslavia using photographs and archival footage; invasion of German forces, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria in April ’41, surrender of the Yugoslav army, dividing up of Yugoslavia, occupied areas, co-operation, Ustase Movement (The Croatian Fascists), Jasenovak concentration camp, murder of the Jews, gypsies, Serbs and resisters of the Ustate Movement, the people’s resistance, the National Freedom Movement, support of King Peter exiled in London, aid of the allies to the resistance movement in Yugoslavia, partisans, Tito, surrender of the German forces 15th May, 1945, freeing Yugoslavia.

Director : Ivan Struger

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 26

Language : English

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2011 - Dina Büchler-Chen

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2011 "Fragments of Memory - The Faces Behind the Documents, Artifacts and Photographs". Torchlighter Dina Büchler-Chen. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew