The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.
Film | Accession Number: 2015.360.2 | RG Number: RG-60.1753 | Film ID: 4122
Film Title:
Licco Max Haim 1939 to ... -- Licco Max Haim -- amateur
Date:
Event: August-October 1940
Duration:
00:16:58
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… new military recruits in 1941. The collection also includes a unique ten minute sequence showing Bulgarian Jews in 1941 building a road as part of a…
Film | Accession Number: 1994.A.0037 | RG Number: RG-12.020.01
Film Title:
Nuremberg Conference: Facing History and Ourselves
Date:
Event: 1985 March
Duration:
01:07:20
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… Alan Dershowitz. Boston College Law School.
Taylor discusses the judicial process as a step in the direction of an ordered world and peace (in his view…
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…. Executions and executioners. Forced labor. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. Human rights. Humanitarian law. Jews…
Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5002 | Film ID: 3109, 3110, 3111
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Hansi Brand
Date:
Event: September or October 1979 Production: 1985
Duration:
01:42:00
… Jews of their fates. She states emphatically that by 1944, of course, everyone knew what it meant to be deported to the East.
FILM ID 3109 -- Camera…
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…; but Hungarian Jews just could not believe that this would eventually reach them too. I must add that at this point in Hungary they began enacting laws…
Film | Accession Number: 1994.A.0037 | RG Number: RG-12.020.04
Film Title:
There is a Way
Date:
Event: 1986 Production: 1986
Duration:
00:28:39
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… further world peace (as published in his "A Common Sense Guide to World Peace," 1985). He claims the world should be governed by three principles: law…
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…. Executions and executioners. Forced labor. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. Human rights. Humanitarian law. Jews…
Film | Accession Number: 2012.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1373 | Film ID: 2942, 2943
Film Title:
Bollen ... -- David Cohen-Paraira -- home movies
Date:
Event: 1938?
Duration:
00:00:44
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… 1941. David was an artist and, later, a traveling salesman for a cigar factory. At the age of 17, Ellis was forbidden by racial law to attend university…
Film | Accession Number: 1994.A.0037 | RG Number: RG-12.020.26
Film Title:
To What End?
Date:
Event: 1988 Production: 1988
Duration:
00:58:57
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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…. Executions and executioners. Forced labor. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. Human rights. Humanitarian law. Jews…
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Jan Karski
Date:
Event: 1978 October Production: 1985
Duration:
04:13:12
… describes as desperate, the two leaders asked Karski to take messages to London about the extermination of the Jews. Karski was asked to tell the exiled…
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…. 341 00:20:28,350 --> 00:20:32,700 As you know, in Poland, you had 100 types of Jews-- 342 00:20:32,700 --> 00:20:38,520 assimilated, not assimilated…
Film | Accession Number: 1994.A.0037 | RG Number: RG-12.020.12
Film Title:
New World Order
Date:
Event: 1991 April 16
Duration:
01:16:56
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… of the US that does not want international law and order, who believe might equals right. Ferencz explains the seal of the US and its relationship to…
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Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5026 | Film ID: 3294, 3295, 3296, 3297
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Mordechai (Michael) Podchlebnik
Date:
Event: May 1979 Production: 1985
Duration:
02:00:00
…JEWS…
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…. Q : -What was he doing in Frankfurt, in Germany? -2- Response : -He was doing what all Jews did before the war, he did a bit of business; it was a…
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