Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future
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| Original title | Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 15 minutes |
| Rod | |
| script | Ray Errol Fox |
| production | Ray Errol Fox |
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Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future is an American short - documentary from 1990. The by Ray Errol Fox written and produced film received at the Academy Awards 1990 nominated for the Best Short Documentary .
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The film is about the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel. Some fates are presented. The film leads through the memorial and shows visitors passing through several rooms, starting with the Hall of Remembrance . It is followed by the Art Museum, the Hall of Names , the Valley of the Communities and the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations . The recordings are supplemented by children's drawings and poems from the concentration camps , which are exhibited there.
A special focus is placed on the fate of the children during the Shoah and on the memorial for the children . Some individual fates are read out.
Then the question is asked whether something like this can still happen today. Images of the genocide in Cambodia , apartheid in Africa and neo-Nazi skinheads in the United States are then shown.
The film ends with the famous quote from George Santayana
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it."
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
followed by a playing child full of joie de vivre.
background
The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film along with The Johnstown Flood by Charles Guggenheim and Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 by David Petersen . Finally, The Johnstown Flood won .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Movies with Jewish Themes Rack Up Oscar Nominations. In: Jewish Telegraphic Agency. February 15, 1990. Retrieved January 4, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ The 62nd Academy Awards | 1990. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .