Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Siła Bezsilnych (Power of the Powerless) series tells the story of the Polish resistance movement against the Communist government during World War II. This chapter is dedicated to Joseph Kuras, nicknamed "Fire", who was the commander of the partisan organization "Lightning". The organization acted to release anti-communist underground prisoners from the "Saint Michala" prison in the center of Krakow near military camps and secret police headquarters with not a single shot fired. The last living witness Zbigniew Plobodah describes the action. The history of "Fire" reflects the history of post-war Poland. The...

Director : Tadeusz Pawlicki

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 49

Language : Polish

White Rose

A small group of students at the University of Munich begins to question the sanity of Germany's Nazi government towards the end of the Second World War. They form a resistance cell called "The White Rose", named after a newsletter secretly distributed to other students. The group begins to gain support, while the Gestapo ruthlessly pursues the members of "The White Rose", whose leaders are ultimately tried for treason and executed.

Director : Michael Verhoeven

Production Year : 1982

Duration : 121

Language : German

For Your and Our Freedom

סרט על מקומם של חיילים יהודים פולין במלחמות על עצמאותה של פולין.

Director : Paweł Woldan

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 40

Language : Polish

It Was all Legal

סרט תיעודי.

Director : Josef Pröll

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 72

Language : English, German

Landscapes of Resistance

A documentary biograghic movie. Sonja Vujanovic was one of the first women who joined the partisan resistance movement in Yugoslavia. She was inspired by the revolutionary books she received from a classmate in high school, she joined the communist and antifascist organization in the late 1930s and in 1941 became a partisan fighter in German-occupied Serbia. She was captured, tortured and after several other prisons and concentration camps taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. There she became a member of the resistance and a leader of its combat unit. Landscapes of her revolutionary life as they exist today , the...

Director : Marta Popivoda

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 95

Language : Serbian-Croatian