Search and consult audiovisual documents

What’s in the Multimedia Learning Centre?

The aim of the multimedia teaching centre is to identify, collect, preserve and promote any audiovisual document on the Shoah. By collecting testimonies, documentaries, fictions and filmed archives from around the world, it also contributes to raising awareness of the role of cinema.

Enriched each month with new titles, the collection counts more than 3,000 films, from the 1910s to the present day, around historical and cultural themes such as the life of pre-war Jews, Yiddish culture, the rise of fascism, the Second World War, the Shoah, the trials, the transmission of memory, anti-Semitism, the genocides of the 20th century...

All genres are addressed: fiction (Travels, The Dictator, The Passenger, Mr. Klein, The Son of Saul, The Labyrinth of Silence, Phoenix, Ida...), documentary (Shoah, Night and Fog, Assassination of a milliner, The Language does not lie, Belzec, Zakhor, Einsatzgruppen the death commandos, Hotel Terminus, The Escapees of Rawa Rushka...), animated film (One Beautiful Morning, Gen of Hiroshima, Nyosha, L'Appel, Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto ...), television film (The Tricycle of Belleville, The Time of Disobedience, The Metis of God, The Hill with a thousand children, René Bousquet or the great arrangement...).

A collection of Yiddish films is being created: A Jewish Happiness, Fiddler on the Roof, The Dybbuk, Tevye...

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

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

The audiovisual centre is also rich in a sound library: camp and ghetto songs, liturgical chants, 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 center

Access

Located on the mezzanine above the bookshop, the audiovisual centre is intended for a specialist audience – 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 catalog is available in paper format. It will be online in 2017.
The consultations are exclusively on site. No loans and no copies of audiovisual documents are made.

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