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.
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
| Acknowledgements | viii |
| Notes on Contributors | xi |
| 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 |
| Filmography | 288 |
| Bibliography | 296 |
| Index | |
