Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

Kapo in Jerusalem

A feature film. An exploration of the moral and survival dilemmas in Auschwitz from the point of view of a deputy head of a block and a few of the prisoners from his block who survived the horrors of the camp, immigrated to Israel in the 40's and are still struggling to begin new life in the newborn state of Israel. Based on the true story of Eliezer Greenbaum .

: Uri Barbash

: 2015

: 99

: Hebrew

Jugendliche und der Nahostkonflikt

: Gesa Dankwerth

: 2006

: 40

: German

כל מה שיורה - סיפור עזרתה של צ'כוסלובקיה לישראל במלחמת העמצאות

סיפור עזרתה של ממשלת צ'כוסלובקיה לישראל במלחמת העמצאות.

: בני עורי

: 1995

: 105

: Czech, English, Hebrew

My Lodz No Longer Exists - The story of Yosef Neuhaus

Summary: Documentary film. This film chronicles the Jewish community in Lodz, Poland, through the story of Yosef Neuhaus. Yosef was born in Lodz in 1924, to Tova-Yona and Zvi Hirsch. In May 1940, he was forced to enter the Lodz ghetto along with his parents and younger sister Zofia, where they lived for four years until their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau. All of Yosef’s family members were murdered in that camp. Yosef survived and was then imprisoned in several other camps. In...

: Zvika Nevo

: 2009

: 41

: Hebrew

The Phoenixes

Summary: A documentary. The film presents the stories of seven Holocaust survivors and their various contributions to the state of Israel in various areas of life. Among the participants in the film are: Prof. Andre Hajdu - Israel Prize laureate in music. Moshe Zanbar – former Governor of the Bank of Israel. Yitzhak Arad - a retired Chief of Education Officer in the Israeli army and one of the founders of Yad Vashem. In the film, there is footage of visits to the Museum at Latroun, and to Yad Vashem.

: מיכה שגריר

: 2008

: 52

: Hebrew

Mahal - Les Volontaires de l'Etranger

This documentary tells of Mahal, about 3,000 volunteers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War for the new state of Israel. They were mostly World War II veterans from American and British armed forces. The largest presence of Mahal was felt in the Israeli Air Force (IAF). A total of 119 Mahalniks were killed in battle. After the end of the war in 1949, the majority of the Machal returned to their home countries. Some remained to live in Israel. Twenty two veterans recollect the conflict, including Israeli President Ezer Weizman. Other international volunteers who contribute to this...

: Didier Martiny

: 1998

: 60

: English, French, Hebrew

Twist of Fate

A two-part miniseries about an SS-Lieutenant Colonel Helmut Von Schreader who, in the waning days of the Third Reich, undergoes plastic surgery and becomes a concentration-camp prisoner to avoid prosecution as a war criminal. In an ironic twist of fate, he is shipped to the wrong camp and forced to live with those he has victimized, where he learns to respect them. After the war, he becomes involved in the founding of Israel, marries and fathers a son, who eventually stumbles across his identity 20 years later.

: Ian Sharp

: 1989

: 177

: English

Heritage: Civilization and the Jews - Out of the Ashes

Part 8 in a 9-volume documentary chronicles the story of the Jews, from the birth of a people in the Middle East's cradle of civilization through the creation of the state of Israel in 1947. Archival film footage and photographs, art and artifacts, journals and personal accounts, and commentary by scholars provide the particulars about a people that have long been persecuted, and yet have given so much to world culture. This volume in the series examines the critical period between 1919 and 1947. Two World Wars, Hitler and the Holocaust, and the turbulent times in Europe forever changed the face of Zionism.

: Alan Rosenthal

: 1984

: 60

: English

Altalena

The documentary tells the story of Altalena, an Etzel Hagana ship which Hagana men blew up on June 22th, 1948 at Tel-Aviv beach. Three of the founding fathers of Israel were involved in this event: David Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Rabin. Why did Ben-Gurion instruct Israeli soldiers to open fire? Why did Yitzhak Rabin call this day "the blackest day in my life?" The film follows the journey of the Altalena from its departure from the port in France, with 930 man, many of which Holocaust survivors, and ammunition on board.

: Ilana Tsur

: 1994

: Hebrew

Quarter to Eight - Story of Motty Hod

Documentary film about Mordechai (Motti) Hod (Fein) (1926-2003), the seventh Commander-in-Chief of the Israeli Airforce. Hod was born in Kibbutz Degania. In 1944, at the height of the Second World War, Hod volunteered to serve in the British Army in a transportation unit that assisted the Jewish Brigade on the Italian front. In 1946, Hod joined the "Palmach", (the special strike force of the "Haganah"), and was sent to Europe by the "Haganah" to aid in "illegal immigration" operations (the transportation of holocaust survivors to Palestine by sea in violation of British policies which had virtually closed...

: Jakov Sedlar, Dominik Sedlar

: 2004

: 58

: English, Hebrew

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