Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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American-born Naomi Zeavin goes back to her family's town of Augustow, Poland and organizes support from Solidarity and the Catholic clergy to build a memorial and hold a commemoration service for Augustow's Jews. A moving and inspiring journey showing what one woman can accomplish.

Director : Naomi Zeavin

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 29

Language : English

Adamah

Benjamin, a teenage Holocaust survivor, arrives and settles in the youth's village Ben Shemen during the British mandat. He is assigned to school but the burden of his war experiences hinders his integration within the communal life and he refuses every communication and every group task. Although there is no food shortage in Ben Shemen, he hoards bread. His teachers decide to help him by making him one of the torchbearers in the Chanukah ceremony, but Benjamin remains alienated. An accidental encounter with a barbed wire fence enclosing cattle floods back his concentration camp memories and he digs up the...

Director : Helmar Lerski

Production Year : 1948

Duration : 44

Language : English

A. Einstein - How I See the World

סרט תיעודי.

Director : Richard Kroehling

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 57

Language : English

Zamosc - The Lost Pictures

Documentary film which through paintings, photographs, archival films and interviews tells about the Jewish community of Zamosc, a city in the Lublin district, Poland, before the Nazi occupation.

Director : Mario Grabowiecki

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 56 59

Language : Hebrew

The Bricha

A documentary film which through testimonies and archival films tells about the "Bricha," the organized illegal mass immigration in which close to 250,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors moved across Europe after the war for the purpose of reaching Eretz Israel.

Director : Noemi Schory

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 51 55

Language : Hebrew

מחתרת תנועות הנוער הציוניות בהונגריה 1944 - מפעל ההצלה הגדול באירופה במלחמת העולם השניה, סיפורו של משה אלפן (פיל)

סרט תיעודי על משה אלפן, אחד הדמויות הבולטות של המחתרת החלוצית אשר פעלה בהונגריה בתקפוץ מלחמת העולם השניה.

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 30

Language : Hebrew

Torchlighters at Yadvashem, 2012 - Yehuda Widawski

Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2011 "My Brother's Keeper - Jewish Solidarity During the Holocaust". Torchlighter Yehuda Widawski. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.

Production Year : 2012

Duration : 3

Language : Hebrew