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 all audiovisual documents about the Holocaust. 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 Holocaust, trials, the transmission of memory, antisemitism, 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, Murder of a milliner, The Language does not lie, Belzec, Zakhor, Einsatzgruppen the death commandos, Hotel Terminus, The Escapees by Rawa Rushka...), animated film (One Beautiful Morning, Gen from 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: A Jewish Happiness, A Violin 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 the specialist 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 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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