Resources
Filmed archives
The Audiovisual Centre collects propaganda films and filmed archives from around the world. Thus were acquired in 2005 the filmed archives of the Nuremberg trial, 28 hours of debates arranged 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 the original English, French, German and Russian version without subtitles.
Following the temporary exhibition "Juger Eichmann – Jerusalem, 1961" presented at the Memorial from 8 April to 28 September 2011, the images of the Eichmann trial, acquired from the Israeli National Archives, are available. Simultaneous translation in Hebrew and English.
You can consult the minutes of these trials on the Nizkor Project website.
The DVD-ROM Images de Guerre, a database edited by the National Audiovisual Institute, gathers all the film news broadcast on French screens from 1940 to 1946:
– more than 87 hours of filmed archives, most of them unpublished, including images of German propaganda and documents from the Resistance.
– 17 methodological journeys carried out by specialists of the period, composed of annotated image corpora and maps allowing to decrypt the period and know the life of the French under Occupation and at Liberation.
Testimonials
The Audiovisual Centre is the repository of numerous collections of audiovisual testimonies.
Filmed testimonies
Memory and Documents
128 testimonies collected by Léon Abramovicz from 1989 to 1997.
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (founded by Steven Spielberg)
1877 francophone testimonies from 1993 to the present day.
To obtain a copy of a testimonial made by the Spielberg Foundation: Click on this link then on «Obtain copies of testimonies for interviewee & family».
Words of stars
28 testimonies of hidden children made by Thomas Gilou in July-August 2002.
Refugee Voices
150 English-speaking testimonies collected between 2003 and 2007 by the Association of Jewish Refugees (London). A database (transcription of interviews, biographies, photographs...) is also available.
Between listening and speaking. Final witnesses. Auschwitz 1945-2005
59 testimonies presented during the exhibition at the Paris City Hall in 2005, collected by the Shoah Memorial.
Memories of the Shoah
115 testimonies carried out in 2006 by the National Audiovisual Institute and the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah. A database and interviews are available at http://grands-entretiens.ina.fr/consulter/Shoah
Gypsy memories 1930-1950
47 testimonies of Gypsies in original version without subtitles, made by Éric Darmon and Juliette Jourdan between 2008 and 2009, mainly in Eastern Europe.
Collection of the Shoah Memorial (in progress)
Since 2010, 92 testimonies have been collected, often unpublished. 11 relate exclusively to the Liberation.
Drancy
23 testimonies carried out as part of the permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial – Drancy.
Oral testimonies
Children’s memoirs
The Hidden Children’s Association recorded the memories of 350 witnesses between 1983 and 2003.
Words of the Righteous among the Nations
From 2002 to 2005, under the leadership of Radio France and Yad Vashem, 70 Righteous Among the Nations shared their war memories.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
A hundred oral stories collected by the JDC from 1979 under the direction of Herbert Katzki.
