Cinematography of the Holocaust

 

Documentation and record of moving image materials.
A project of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt am Main



This tenth Internet edition (July, 2012) of the database of the Cinematography of the Holocaust
project contains information on 1,792 films. The focus is on films in English (from the USA, Israel, etc.). In addition, the database presents a selection of relevant films from Germany before 1945, from the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, France, Italy, etc.

A balance has been tried to achieve between various formats and genres. The film selection covers long and short films, feature and documentaries, films for cinema and TV, US Army Signal Corps newsreels, fundraiser films, etc. Ratings for quality and importance of films have not been taken into consideration; i.e. there is no attempt at any kind of canonization.

The database has been prepared for bilingual presentation in English and
German. This applies to most of the formal data, as well as to abstracts or summaries. All other information and texts, such as the extensive shotlists are either in German or in English.

The database offers free-text searching across the entire film descriptions as well as index-based searches on film titles, personal names, and corporate bodies. Furthermore, films can be searched by subject terms taken from a thesaurus for National Socialism and the Holocaust.


Cinematography of the Holocaust. Documentation and record of moving image materials.
A project of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt am Main

In cooperation with: CineGraph. Hamburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung, Hamburg; Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF, Frankfurt am Main; Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main

Supported by: Bundesarchiv - Filmarchiv, Berlin; Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem

Project manager: Ronny Loewy (Deutsches Filmmuseum)
Scientific consultancy: Prof. Dr. Peter Hayes (Northwestern University), Dr. Irmtrud Wojak (Fritz Bauer Institut)
Thesaurus: Jutta Lindenthal
Database development: Detlev Balzer
Research and data input: Lesley-Kate Adams (translation), Nadine Centner, Sabine Horn, Rebecca Donauer, Andrea Heinemann, Cornelia Kaus, Anna Luise Knetsch (translation), Katrin Kokot, Katherin Kuse, Coline Matthée, Marion Münstermann, Alia Pagin, Johanna Rehmer, Bettina Schulte-Strathaus, Tobias Semmet, Gabriele S. Wolter

Financial support: Hoechst AG, Frankfurt am Main; DEFA Stiftung, Berlin

Contact: r.loewy@fritz-bauer-institut.de

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