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HIGHLIGHTS
Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television Since 1933 Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television Since 1933
Edited by Toby Haggith and Joanna Newman
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Feature films and documentaries offer viewers some of the most indelible and powerful images of the Holocaust. Film footage of the camps and ghettos capture aspects of life during the Holocaust in ways the written word and still photographs cannot. Feature films, on the other hand, serve as introductions to the subject for viewers who otherwise may have little knowledge of the Holocaust. Moreover, these images may serve as memorials to the victims of the catastrophe by capturing or dramatizing their lives and personal stories on film.

The essays included in the book Holocaust and the Moving Image, a compilation of papers presented at a 2001 symposium held at the Imperial War Museum in London, cover all aspects of the representation of the Holocaust on film. Contributors include some of the leading scholars in the field of Holocaust studies as well as survivors, filmmakers, archivists, and museum curators. Essays cover a broad range of topics concerning fictionalized and documentary representations of the Holocaust on film, including Nazi propaganda footage of the Theresienstadt ghetto, antisemitic films such as Jud Süss, the use of film footage in postwar trials of Nazi leaders, and the role of movies in memorialization and understanding.

Individual essays discuss specific films within the context of Holocaust history, from well-known movies like Night and Fog (1955) and Schindler’s List (1993) to less familiar works such as Alfred Radok's The Long Journey (1949) and Andrej Munk's Passenger (1963). The book also includes a filmography of motion pictures, documentaries, and television series referenced in the text, a bibliography of related books, and an index.

317 pages
illustrations
Published by Wallflower Press (London, New York).
ISBN: 1-904764-52-5 (hbk.)
ISBN: 1-904764-51-7 (pbk.)
Call no: PN 1995.9 .H53 H6495 2005

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgementsviii
Notes on Contributorsxi
Preface
David Cesarani		xxi
Introduction
Toby Haggith & Joanna Newman		1

Section I: Film as Witness
Film and the Making of the Imperial War Museum's
Holocaust Exhibition
Suzanne Bardgett		19
Preparing the Video Displays for the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition
Annie Dodds		26
Filming the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
Toby Haggith		33
Separate Intentions: The Allied Screening of Concentration Camp Documentaries
in Defeated Germany in 1945-46: Death Mills and Memory of the Camps
Kay Gladstone		50
A Witness to Atrocity: Film as Evidence in International War Crimes Tribunals
Helen Lennon		65

Section II: Film as Propaganda
Veit Harlan's Jud Süss
Susan Tegel		76
Fritz Hippler's The Eternal Jew
Terry Charman		85
Film Documents of Theresienstadt
Lutz Becker		93
Terezín: The Town Hitler Gave to the Jews
Zdenka Fantlova-Ehrlich		102
The Ministry of Information and Anti-Fascist Short Films of the Second World War
Matthew Lee		106
Fighting the Government with its Own Propaganda: The Struggle for Racial Equality
in the USA During the Second World War
Stephen Tuck		116

Section III: The Holocaust Documentary in Film and Television
Nuit et Brouillard: A Turning Point in the History and Memory of the Holocaust
Christian Delage		127
Baggage and Responsibility -- The World at War and the Holocaust
Michael Darlow		140
The Nazis: A Warning from History
Laurence Rees		146
Kitty - Return to Auschwitz
Peter Morley		154
Some Reflections on Claude Lanzmann's Approach to the Examination of the Holocaust
Raye Farr		161
But is it Documentary?
Orly Yadin		168
Silence: The Role of the Animators
Ruth Lingfore & Tim Webb		173
Oswiecim/Auschwitz: The Shooting Goes On...
Mira Hamermesh		175
Seeing and Hearing for Ourselves: The Spectacle of Reality in the Holocaust Documentary
Elizabeth Cowie		182

Section IV: The Holocaust in Feature Films
An Overview of Hollywood Cinema's Treatment of the Holocaust
Trudy Gold		193
Escape from Sobibor: A Film Made for Television Depicting the Mass Escape from
Sobibor Extermination Camp
Jack Gold		198
The Holocaust, Film and Education
Ian Wall		203
Young People's Viewing of Holocaust Films in Different Cultural Contexts
Anna Reading		211
Living with the Long Journey: Alfréd Radok's Daleká Cesta
Jirí Cieslar		217
Double Memory: The Holocaust in Polish Film
Ewa Mazierska		225
For the Few, Not the Many: Delusion and Denial in Italian Holocaust Films
Giacomo Lichtner		236
The Survivors' Right to Reply
Trudy Gold ... [et al.]		243

Section V: Legacy and Other Genocides
Human Rights: Does Anyone Care?
Rex Bloomstein		259
Journey Into Darkness
David G. Harrison		265
If the Walls Could Speak (Les Voix de la Muette)
Daniela Zanzotto		271
Exploring the Common Threads of Genocide: The Crimes Against Humanity Exhibition
at the Imperial War Museum
Suzanne Bardgett & Annie Dodds		280

Filmography288
Bibliography296
Index