Search and consult audiovisual documents

What can you find at the Centre d'enseignement multimédia?

The purpose of the Multimedia Teaching Centre is to identify, collect, preserve and promote any audiovisual material on the Holocaust. By collecting testimonies, documentaries, fictions and film archives from all over the world, it also contributes to publicizing the role of cinema.

With new titles added every month, the collection includes more than 3,000 films from the 1910s to the present day, focusing on historical and cultural themes such as the life of pre-war Jews, Yiddish culture, the rise of fascism, the Second World War, the Shoah, trials, the transmission of memory, antisemitism, the genocides of the 20th century...

All genres are covered: fiction (Voyages, Le Dictateur, La Passagère, Monsieur Klein, Le Fils de Saul, Le Labyrinthe du silence, Phoenix, Ida...), documentary (Shoah, Nuit et Brouillard, Assassinat d'une modiste, La Langue ne ment pas, Belzec, Zakhor, Einsatzgruppen les commandos de la mort, Hôtel Terminus, Les Evadés de Rawa Rushka...), animation film (Un beau matin, Gen d'Hiroshima, Nyosha, L'Appel, Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto ...), TV film (Le Triporteur de Belleville, Le Temps de la désobéissance, Le Métis de Dieu, La Colline aux mille enfants, René Bousquet or the grand arrangement...).

A collection of Yiddish films is being set up: Un bonheur juif, A violin on the roof, The Dybbuk, Tevye...

Some films are accessible to the young public: The Old Man and the Child, The Diary of Anne Frank, Children of the Secret, Line of Life, Monsieur Batignole, Fortunat...

Testimonies, film archives and audiovisual recordings of the events presented at the Memorial auditorium are also available.

The audiovisual centre is also rich in a phonotheque: songs of camps and ghettos, liturgical songs, Yiddish, klezmer music illustrate the history, folklore, traditions and cultural heritage of the Jewish world. Testimonies, radio broadcasts, sound archives and interviews enrich this collection.

Operation of the multimedia teaching centre

Access

Located in a mezzanine above the bookstore, the Audiovisual Centre is open to the specialized public – researchers, film professionals, teachers – as well as the general public and young people. It makes the collections available to them free of charge on its eight consultation and viewing stations.

Consultation of documents

The film catalogue is available on paper. It will be online in 2017.
Consultations are conducted exclusively on-site. No loans or copies of audiovisual documents are made.

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