Metadata: Video archive
Collection
- Country:
- Austria
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Museum of Hohenems
- Holding institution (official language):
- Jüdisches Museum Hohenems
- Postal address:
- Schweizerstrasse 5; 6845 Hohenems
- Phone number:
- +43 5576 739890
- Web address:
- http://www.jm-hohenems.at/
- Email:
- office@jm-hohenems.at
- Reference number:
- V
- Title:
- Video archive
- Title (official language):
- Videoarchiv
- Date(s):
- 1924/2017
- Language:
- German
- English
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 423 tapes and DVDs
- Type of material:
- Audio
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The video archive holds a variety of recordings, including a number of movies produced by the Nazi regime such as the documentary/propaganda movie “Der ewige Jude” (The Eternal Jew) by Fritz Hippler, movies produced during the interwar years such as the stage play “Der Dibbuk" (The Dibbuk) by Michal Waszynski or movies about the holocaust produced in the recent past such as “Schindler’s List” by Steven Spielberg and “Die Akte Grüninger" by Alain Gsponer.
The collection also contains various documentaries produced by Austrian, Swiss and German television channels or independent TV production companies. Most of these documentaries are about Jewish history in those three countries or the Holocaust. The collection furthermore holds a number of TV reports produced by Austrian, Swiss and German television channels. The topics of these reports are, for example, famous former members of the Jewish community of Hohenems such as Salomon Sulzer, the museum and its exhibitions itself, individuals who are connected to the Jewish community or the region in a certain way such as Paul Grüninger (a Swiss border guard who saved many Jews during the Second World War) or Josef Vallaster (a member of the SS who was killed during an uprising in Sobibór in 1943).
The collection also includes reports about past reunions of the descendants of the Jews of Hohenems and productions of the museum itself (recordings of events, recordings for exhibitions and so on) and of Yitzhak Feuerstein, a Bregenz-based filmmaker who follows the events, lectures and panel discussions organised by or in the museum. Finally, the collection holds a large number of interviews that were produced by the Shoa Foundation Institute, the museum or television channels.
Signatures: the collection is numbered from V 1 to V 423.
- Archival history:
- The collection was created in 1991 and is still being added to.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The video archive of the Jewish museum in Hohenems was created to collect tapes, DVDs and other visual recordings that were donated to the museum by individuals and institutions or were bought or produced by the museum itself.
- Access points: locations:
- Basel
- Dornbirn
- Hohenems
- St. Gallen
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aberant
- Baum
- Bleier
- Blum
- Bollag
- Braude
- Fligelman
- Freedman
- Fuhrmann
- Fürst
- Gepner
- Goldshtayn
- Gourarier
- Greenberg
- Halpert
- Heymann
- Isenberg
- Jaffe
- Jaffé de Winne
- Kahn
- Landau
- Lazar
- Leopold
- Markhus
- Mirecki
- Nakar
- Rollin
- Rosenthal
- Rubinstein
- Schreiner
- Schutz
- Shimer
- Steif
- Steiner
- Szasz
- Tänzer
- Wohlberg
- Woynar
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
- The only way to access the documents in the archive is to contact or visit the Jewish Museum in Hohenems. There you can ask staff for help or consult the electronic catalogue locally.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017