Digitally process, curate, and make previously unpublished research material on Claude Lanzmann’s film “Shoah” available, to keep the memories of Holocaust survivors and witnesses alive.
The French journalist and documentary filmmaker Claude Lanzmann conducted countless interviews while researching his 1985 monumental film Shoah - speaking with survivors of ghettos and concentration camps, but also with perpetrators. His vast audio archive, containing previously unheard recordings, was donated to the Jewish Museum Berlin in 2021 and 2022 by the Association Claude et Felix Lanzmann (A.C.F.L.). With support from the Alfred Landecker Foundation, the museum is working to unlock this material. In collaboration with the Selma Stern Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg (SSZ) and the Centre for Digital Systems at Freie Universität Berlin (CeDiS), it is digitising more than 220 hours of recordings, ensuring they are accessible to both researchers and the wider public.
