Resources
Film Archives
The Audiovisual Centre collects worldwide propaganda films and film archives. In 2005, the film archives of the Nuremberg trial were acquired: 28 hours of proceedings in chronological order, 3 films presented as evidence by the prosecution (The Nazi Plan, Nazi Concentration Camps and The Atrocities Committed by the German Fascist Aggressors) and 3 period documentaries (That Justice Be Done, Nuremberg, the Trial and Nuremberg). In addition, the archives of other trials (doctors, Einsatzgruppen, industrialists...) can also be consulted.
These documents are in original English, French, German and Russian versions without subtitles.
Following the temporary exhibition “Judge Eichmann – Jerusalem, 1961” presented at the Memorial from 8 April to 28 September 2011, images of the Eichmann trial acquired from the Israeli National Archives are available. Simultaneous translation into Hebrew and English.
You can consult the minutes of these trials on the Nizkor Project website.
The DVD-ROM Images de Guerre, a database published by the Institut national de l'audiovisuel, contains all the film news broadcast on French screens from 1940 to 1946:
- More than 87 hours of footage, mostly unpublished, including images of German propaganda and Resistance documents.
– 17 methodological journeys made by specialists in the period, composed of a corpus of annotated images and maps to decipher the period and to know the life of the French under the Occupation and at the Liberation.
Testimonials
The Audiovisual Centre is the repository of many collections of audiovisual testimonies.
Filmed testimonies
Brief and Documents
128 testimonies collected by Léon Abramovicz from 1989 to 1997.
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (created by Steven Spielberg)
1877 Francophone testimonies from 1993 to the present.
To obtain a copy of a testimonial by the Spielberg Foundation: Click on this link then on “Obtain copies of testimonies for interviewée & family”.
Words of Stars
28 testimonies of hidden children made by Thomas Gilou in July-August 2002.
Refugee Voices
150 English-language testimonies collected between 2003 and 2007 by the Association of Jewish Refugees (London). A database (transcripts of interviews, biographies, photographs...) is also available.
Between listening and speaking. Last witnesses. Auschwitz 1945-2005
59 testimonies presented during the exhibition at the Hôtel de Ville of Paris in 2005, collected by the Memorial de la Shoah.
Memories of the Holocaust
115 testimonies made in 2006 by the Institut national de l'audiovisuel and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. A database and interviews are available on http://grands-entretiens.ina.fr/consulter/Shoah
Gypsy memoirs 1930-1950
47 testimonies of Tsiganes in original version without subtitles, made by Éric Darmon and Juliette Jourdan between 2008 and 2009, mainly in Eastern Europe.
Collection of the Holocaust Memorial (ongoing)
Since 2010, 92 testimonies have been collected, often unpublished. 11 relate exclusively to the Liberation.
Drancy
23 testimonies taken as part of the permanent exhibition at the Holocaust Memorial – Drancy.
Oral testimony
Children’s memoirs
The Association of Hidden Children recorded the memories of 350 witnesses between 1983 and 2003.
Words of Righteous among the Nations
From 2002 to 2005, under the leadership of Radio France and Yad Vashem, 70 Righteous among the Nations deliver their memories of war.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
A hundred oral stories collected by the JDC from 1979 under the direction of Herbert Katzki.
