This online catalog provides access to the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum's Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive. The Archive serves as a
comprehensive informational and archival resource worldwide for moving
image materials pertaining to the Holocaust and related aspects of World
War II. Staff continue to locate, acquire, preserve, and document archival
film footage from sources throughout the United States and abroad. The
collection can be searched by subject, title, source, copyright, keyword,
language, location, event date, and genre. We make every effort to ensure
the accuracy of information in this database. However, any and all liability
which may arise from your use of and reliance on the information contained
here is excluded.
ARCHIVAL HOLDINGS
800 hours of motion picture footage, dating primarily from the 1920s
to 1948, covering
- Prewar Jewish and Roma/Sinti (Gypsy) life
- Germany in the 1920s and 1930s
- the Nazi rise to power
- Nazi racial science and propaganda
- Persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, occupied territories, and Nazi puppet states
- Deportations of Jews to ghettos and concentration camps
- Internment camps
- Resistance movements
- the liberation and disclosure of Nazi concentration camps
- Refugees in displaced persons camps
- War crimes trials, including the Nuremberg Trials and the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann
- American responses to the events in Europe from 1933-1945, incl. rallies, protests, speeches, & newsreels coverage
9 hours of film and video programming directly related to the creation of the Museum's Permanent Exhibition as well as documentation of specific source and copyright information pertaining to archival clips.
250 hours of outtakes from Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah, featuring Holocaust survivor testimonies. Most outtakes are not available for reference at present, except as written transcripts where they exist.
RESEARCH
Viewings of video copies take place by appointment between 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM Monday to Friday at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Inquiries are welcome by letter, phone, fax, or e-mail.
REPRODUCTION
The Archive is not equipped or staffed to supply copies of archival materials directly to users. If footage is in the public domain and has no rights restrictions, we can facilitate duplication of master material via a local video studio at the requestor's expense. Images that are not in the public domain must be cleared with the rights holder by the requestor before duplication.
CONTACT
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, USHMM
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
Phone: 202-488-6104
Fax: 202-488-2696
E-mail: filmvideo@ushmm.org