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AJC offices - New York

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5070 | Film ID: 4600, 4601

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    AJC offices - New York

    Overview

    Description
    FILM ID 4600 -- AJC NY 162-168
    Claude Lanzmann interviews an American Jewish Committee (AJC) employee at the New York City office. During the interview the employee acts as a guide, taking Lanzmann on a tour of the building housing the AJC, which is comprised of several departments. The guide explains the main functions of the departments they pass: the Public Education and Information Department, the Foreign Affairs Department, the Domestic Affairs Department and the Library. Overall, the AJC is concerned with maintaining the rights and freedoms of Jews and other minorities. Lanzmann comments that the AJC appears to be a very powerful organization.

    The guide takes Lanzmann to the Fundraising Department of the AJC. The AJC fosters cooperation with other non-Jewish groups for the mutual goal of freedom and security of all people. Lanzmann points out how this focus on human rights aligns with the sign on the front of the building, which reads, "Institute of Human Relations." By helping non-Jews, as well as Jews, the AJC helps all minorities improve their human rights. 03:44 At the time of the interview, the AJC was approaching its 75th anniversary. The AJC developed and expanded at a tremendous pace after the Holocaust. The guide and another woman tell Lanzmann about the AJC records, which include information on antisemitism, AJC's work before and during the creation of the state of Israel, and the resettlement of Holocaust survivors.

    FILM ID 4601 -- AJC NY 169-172
    [Audio is difficult to hear over background noise] The guide takes Lanzmann to AJC's computer room where a monthly and a quarterly magazine are produced. The modernity and efficiency of the AJC facilitates the completion of their important work, including communication with subscribers and members. The guide tells Lanzmann that she came to the United States as a small child before the war and her family perished in Poland. 05:33 In the Wiener Oral History Library, Lanzmann is introduced to the Director, Irma Krantz. Krantz tells Lanzmann how the Oral History division strives to represent as many different aspects of American Jewish life as possible through its recordings.

    The guide next takes Lanzmann to the Brownstein Library and introduces him to Sima Horowitz, the Chief Librarian. Since its inception in 1939, the library is primarily concerned with contemporary American Jewish issues. A collection of contemporary antisemitic material consists of antisemitic books written in Braille and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" printed in several different languages as recently as 1975. Horowtz shows Lanzmann a book originally printed in 1936 for very young children as a propaganda piece in English by an organization called "The White Power Publications" in the United States. The book had wide circulation throughout the organization and was donated in 1976. The library also contains newspapers, periodicals, and radio addresses from the Middle East and Russia associated with contemporary antisemitism.
    Duration
    00:49:40
    Date
    Event:  December 1978
    Production:  1985
    Locale
    New York, NY, United States
    Credit
    Created by Claude Lanzmann during the filming of "Shoah," used by permission of USHMM and Yad Vashem
    Contributor
    Director: Claude Lanzmann
    Biography
    Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone de Beauvoir. In 1963 he married French actress Judith Magre. Later, he married Angelika Schrobsdorff, a German-Jewish writer, and then Dominique Petithory in 1995. He is the father of Angélique Lanzmann, born in 1950, and Félix Lanzmann (1993-2017). Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah, is widely regarded as the seminal film on the subject of the Holocaust. He began interviewing survivors, historians, witnesses, and perpetrators in 1973 and finished editing the film in 1985. In 2009, Lanzmann published his memoirs under the title "Le lièvre de Patagonie" (The Patagonian Hare). He was chief editor of the journal "Les Temps Modernes," which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, until his death on July 5, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/claude-lanzmann-changed-the-history-of-filmmaking-with-shoah

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Outtakes.
    B&W / Color
    Color
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3614 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3614 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3614 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3614 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3615 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3615 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3615 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3615 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3616 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3616 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3616 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3616 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3617 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3617 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3617 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3617 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 4600 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative
      Master 4601 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative
      Master 4600 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - silent - acetate - workprint
      Master 4601 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - silent - acetate - workprint
      Master 4600 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - workprint
      Master 4601 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - workprint
      Master 4600 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative
      Master 4601 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative
      Master 4600 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - silent - acetate - workprint
      Master 4601 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - silent - acetate - workprint
      Master 4600 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - workprint
      Master 4601 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - workprint
      Master 4600 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative
      Master 4601 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative
      Master 4600 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - silent - acetate - workprint
      Master 4601 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - silent - acetate - workprint
      Master 4600 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - workprint
      Master 4601 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - workprint
      Master 4600 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative
      Master 4601 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative
      Master 4600 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - silent - acetate - workprint
      Master 4601 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - silent - acetate - workprint
      Master 4600 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - workprint
      Master 4601 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - workprint

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, State of Israel
    Conditions on Use
    Third party must sign the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's SHOAH Outtakes Film License Agreement in order to reproduce and use film footage. Contact filmvideo@ushmm.org

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the Shoah outtakes from Claude Lanzmann on October 11, 1996. The Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection is now jointly owned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.
    Note
    Claude Lanzmann spent twelve years locating survivors, perpetrators, and eyewitnesses for his nine and a half hour film Shoah released in 1985. Without archival footage, Shoah weaves together extraordinary testimonies to render the step-by-step machinery of the destruction of European Jewry. Critics have called it "a masterpiece" and a "monument against forgetting." The Claude Lanzmann SHOAH Collection consists of roughly 185 hours of interview outtakes and 35 hours of location filming.

    The workprint shows that it was printed at the lab on December 22, 1978
    Film Source
    Claude Lanzmann
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 6004
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:50:45
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