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What can be found in the Multimedia Teaching Centre?

The aim of the Multimedia Teaching Centre is to identify, collect, preserve and promote all audiovisual documents on the Holocaust. By collecting testimonies, documentaries, fictions and filmed archives from around the world, he also contributes to making known the role of cinema.

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

All genres are addressed: fiction (Voyages, Le Dictateur, La Passagère, Monsieur Klein, Le Fils de Saul, Le Labyrinthe du silence, Phoenix, Ida...), documentary (Shoah, Night and Fog, Assassination of a milliner, La Langue ne ment pas, Belzec, Zakhor, Einsatzgruppen the death commandos, Hotel Terminus, Rawa Rushka’s Escapees...), animated film (Un beau matin, Gen d'Hiroshima, Nyosha, L'Appel, Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto ...), television film (Le Triporteur de Belleville, Le Temps de la désobéissance, Le Métis de Dieu, La Colline aux mille enfants, René Bousquet ou le grand arrangement...).

A collection of Yiddish films is being created: Un bonheur juif, Un violon sur le toit, 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, Monsieur Batignole, Fortunat...

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

The audiovisual center is also rich in a sound library: songs from camps and ghettos, liturgical chants, Yiddish, klezmer music illustrate the history, folklore, traditions and cultural heritage of the Jewish world. Testimonies, radio programs, sound archives and interviews enrich this fund.

Operation of the multimedia teaching centre

Access

Located on the mezzanine above the bookstore, the Audiovisual Centre is aimed at a specialized 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 form. It will be online in 2017.
Consultations are carried out exclusively on site. No loans or copies of audiovisual documents are made.

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