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: 2016.519 | RG Number: RG-60.1420 | Film ID: 2980
Date:
Event: 1939-1941?
Duration:
00:02:01
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… President of the International Chamber of Law. Frank also became head of the NSDAP legal office and took charge of the research to prove Hitler was not a Jew…
Film | Accession Number: 1994.A.0037 | RG Number: RG-12.020.29
Film Title:
NOVA: Confessions of a Weaponeer
Date:
Event: 1982 Production: 1987
Duration:
00:56:31
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…
Film | Accession Number: 1994.A.0037 | RG Number: RG-12.020.16
Film Title:
Conversations (episode 6)
Date:
Event: 1993 November 02 Production: 1993
Duration:
00:27:54
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… of an international criminal court (all of which are void in the current international arena): 1) laws; 2) courts; and 3) enforcement. Ferencz…
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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-60.5035 | Film ID: 3357, 3358, 3359, 3360, 3361
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Eduard Kryshak
Date:
Event: Summer 1979 Production: 1985
Duration:
01:08:00
…JEWS…
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… with Jewish escort… Q … ah, you did (that) too… K … yeeees… Q … transports with Jews… K … two, two, two or three transports I escorted, eh… I know that…
Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5054 | Film ID: 3444, 3445, 3446, 3447
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Jean Pictet
Date:
Event: 1979 April 19 Production: 1985
Duration:
01:23:28
…JEWS…
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… think exactly of the Jews? Pi: No, ehh, no, no. Because, you know, the ICRC cares for, occupies itself with all the war victims, right, civil wars, civil…
Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5052 | Film ID: 3820, 3821, 3822
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Mr. Becher
Date:
Event: November 1978 Production: 1985
Duration:
00:42:49
… between the holidays Chanukah and Purim. According to Becher, Jews can only fight back when their faith is in danger, and the Nuremberg laws persecuted Jews…
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… religious Jews in the world at that time. 143 00:09:17,060 --> 00:09:19,840 Rabbi Weissmandel, who was the son-in-law of the rabbi 144 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09…
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Rudolf Vrba
Date:
Event: November 1978 Production: 1985
Duration:
03:52:12
…Rudolf Vrba was a Slovakian Jew who escaped from Auschwitz in April 1944 in hopes of warning the world about the imminent destruction of the…
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… the Nuremberg laws. 601 00:31:46,150 --> 00:31:50,980 And then intermediary between the Jews 602 00:31:50,980 --> 00:31:53,140 and the German…
Film | Accession Number: 1994.A.0037 | RG Number: RG-12.020.05
Film Title:
Global Forum 23: Peace Through United Nations
Date:
Event: 11/24/1986 Production: 11/24/1986
Duration:
00:28:02
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… of his book: a) the bridge to peace involves three interlocking components: law, courts, and enforcement; b) if people are better informed, better…
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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 Inge Deutschkron
Date:
Event: Late Spring or Early Summer 1979 Production: 1985
Duration:
03:08:00
…) when laws were passed compelling German Jews to carry id cards with fingerprints, the letter "J", and a photo with their left ear in full view, since the…
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… general marking of the Jews-- 666 00:32:14,310 --> 00:32:19,140 The Jewish star became law in September. 667 00:32:19,140 --> 00:32:20,255 We were-- 668 00…
Film | Accession Number: 2005.516.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1570 | Film ID: 3933
Film Title:
Proces de Klaus Barbie
Date:
Event: 1987 May 11
Duration:
01:00:41
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…14:52:00 Lawyer Ravez of the prosecution, makes his opening statement. He brings up the application of a law passed on December 12, 1964, article 639…
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