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: 1994.A.0037 | RG Number: RG-12.020.15
Film Title:
CBC Prime Time News, Yugoslavia: War Crimes Tribunal
Date:
Event: 1993 July 22
Duration:
00:13:34
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 Zaidel and Dugin
Date:
Event: September 18-19, 1979 Production: 1985
Duration:
03:54:00
…JEWS…
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…; I remember the time that preceded the entry of the Germans into Vilna; they stopped Jews in the street, that was even before they created the ghetto…
Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5064 | Film ID: 3800, 3801, 3802, 3803, 3868, 3310, 3312
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Walter Stier
Date:
Event: 1978-1981 Production: 1985
Duration:
01:40:00
…JEWS…
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…; we heard that later... when we ourselves were almost fleeing, from Warsaw, then we heard ... well... that they were supposed to be Jews, or…
Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5001 | Film ID: 3105, 3106, 3107, 3108
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Paula Biren
Date:
Event: Winter 1978-1979 Production: 1985
Duration:
02:09:00
….
(03:04:25) [CLIP 1 BEGINS] Lanzmann asks Biren if she had a premonition of the fate of the Jews. Biren says that they did have an idea because they…
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…:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,200 And did you feel already that the fate of the Jews 90 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,600 would be what happened later and what…
Film | Accession Number: 2012.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1374 | Film ID: 2942, 2943
Film Title:
Bollen ... -- David Cohen-Paraira -- home movies
Date:
Event: Fall 1939?
Duration:
00:00:20
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…
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Hans Gewecke
Date:
Event: Late Spring or Early Summer 1979 Production: 1985
Duration:
05:18:36
… arranging for quarters for the occupying authorities, as well as ghettoizing the Jews of Siauliai. He says that Rosenberg was against a "terroristische…
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… also considered the half-Jewish tradesmen, just as the full Aryans, just as the Aryans. So, half-Jews – as you may know from the Nuremberg Laws – this…
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Richard Glazar
Date:
Event: Late Spring 1979 Production: 1985
Duration:
07:24:00
… non-Jews (transcript is incorrect and says the opposite). At first they mocked Hitler and his rise in Germany but then they slowly became aware of the…
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… well of the first deportations to Nisko. Back then, they didn‟t know what to do with the Jews. Gl: That‟s possible. La: They wanted to try something out…
Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5007 | Film ID: 3144, 3145, 3146, 3147
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Hermann Landau
Date:
Event: 1979 Production: 1985
Duration:
01:40:48
…ORTHODOX JEWS…
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…:46,670 --> 00:28:50,070 that we, as religious Jews, we have to help other people. 714 00:28:50,070 --> 00:28:51,860 We don't look at the law. 715 00:28…
Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5019 | Film ID: 3248, 3249, 3250, 3251, 3252, 3253
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Maurice Rossel
Date:
Event: April-May 1979 Production: 1985
Duration:
02:15:00
…JEWS…
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… camps, German politics was involved in that, and only after they made it common law, and after they sent people there that they had assembled, French…
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