Public lecture: From the Holocaust to the November 13th Attacks in Paris

A public lecture by Christian Delage (Director of the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent, Paris)

Screening: Filming the Camps, from Hollywood to Nuremberg

A film by Christian Delage.

A film by Christian Delage. Introduction and Q&A with the Director and Curator of the exhibition.

Filming the Camps, from Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens

Exhibition in Los Angeles, California

Hollywood directors John Ford, George Stevens, and Samuel Fuller entertained audiences with American cinema classics like The Grapes of Wrath, Shane, and The Big Red One. But their most important contribution to history was their work in the U.S. Armed Forces and Secret Services, filming the realities of war and the liberation of Nazi concentration camps.

Genocides of the 20th Century

The genocide is a specific breach of international criminal law and a very individualized concept. The specificity of this violation and the precision of this concept are underlined by the comparative approach of three mass murders perpetrated during the 20th Century, which have been proven beyond any reasonable doubt to be genocides.

Film and Archives of WWII and the Holocaust

Workshop for teachers, educators, and docents in Dallas, Texas

Christian Delage’s lecture will focus on the double role that film played in the Nuremberg trials. When the Allied forces of the Second War formed an international tribunal to prosecute Nazi war crimes, they introduced two major innovations in court procedure.

Inauguration: Filming the Camps, from Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens

Inauguration in Farmington Hills, Michigan

Hollywood directors John Ford, George Stevens, and Samuel Fuller entertained audiences with American cinema classics like The Grapes of Wrath, Shane, and The Big Red One. But their most important contribution to history was their work in the U.S. Armed Forces and Secret Services, filming the realities of war and the liberation of Nazi concentration camps.

From Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens

Film screening in Reno, Nevada

A film screening followed by a discussion with director and historian Christian Delage

Hélène Berr, a Stolen Life

Exhibition in Reno, Nevada

This exhibition is based on the journal written by Hélène Berr, a young French woman Jewish whose promising future was brutally cut short by the Vichy Government’s laws and the plan of extermination imagined by the Nazis. Studying English Literature at the Sorbonne University, Helene Berr was 21 years old when she started her journal.

Hélène Berr, a Stolen Life

Exhibition in Boca Raton, Florida

This exhibition is based on the journal written by Hélène Berr, a young French woman Jewish whose promising future was brutally cut short by the Vichy Government’s laws and the plan of extermination imagined by the Nazis. Studying English Literature at the Sorbonne University, Helene Berr was 21 years old when she started her journal.

Workshop: Films and Archives of WWII and the Holocaust.

The Shoah Memorial is organizing a free one-day workshop for teachers and educators: “Films and Archives of WWII and the Holocaust.

Hélène Berr, a stolen life

Exhibition in Houston, Texas

This exhibition was designed, created, and distributed by the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris, France (curators Karen Taieb and Sophie Nagiscarde), with the guidance of Mariette Job (niece of Hélène Berr), and made possible through the generous support of SNCF.

Filming the Camps, from Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens

Exhibition in Mobile, Alabama

In 1945, the world discovered the films made by the Allies in the concentration and extermination camps. We may have their images, but we know little, if anything, about the people who made them and even less about the conditions in which they were produced. We have decided to follow the paths of three Hollywood directors: John Ford, Samuel Fuller and George Stevens.