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Archive Collections
  • Yad Vashem Archives (YVA)
  • Bundesarchiv, Ludwigsburg
  • Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Die Bundesbeauftragte Fuer Die Unterlagen Des Staatssicherheitsdienstes Der Ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (HA) – Federal Authority for the Files of the State Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic
  • Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii (GARF) – State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow
  • Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Zhitomirskoi oblasti (GAZhO) – State Archive of the Zhitomir Region
  • Latvijas Valsts Arhīvs (LVA) – State Archive of Latvia, Riga
  • Natsional’nyi arkhiv Respubliki Belarus (NARB) – National Archive of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk
  • Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voennyi arkhiv (Osobyi arkhiv) – Russian State Military Archive, Moscow, Russia
  • Tsentral’nyi Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Ministerstva oborony Rossiiskoi Federatsii (TsGAMORF) – Central State Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Podolsk, Russia
  • USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Private Photo Collections
  • The Aharon Shneyer Collection
  • The Arkadi Shulman Collection
  • The Benjamin Lukin and Boris Khaimovich Collection
  • The Brian Friedman Collection
  • The Hirsh Raikhelson Collection
  • The Ilya Ehrenburg Collection
  • The Leonid Smilovitsky Collection
  • The Mishpokha journal (Vitebsk) Collection
  • The Roza Karpuch Collection
  • The Sofi Efros Collection
  • The Uri Chanoch Collection

Filmography
  • Embers – An Encounter with Soviet Jewry, summer 1990 (Israel, 1990) Series Director & Editor: Chaim Yavin. Courtesy IBA film archive, Channel 1
  • Exodus Village (Belorussia, 2000) Produced and directed by Felix Kuchar, Production Company: Belorussian Video Center
  • Farewell, Yerushalayim de Lita (Lithuania, Germany, 1994) Director: Saulius Beržinis, Production Company: Film Studio Kopa
  • Grozovo (Belorussia, 2004)
  • Holocaust in Buczacz (1991) Producer: Shosh Kremer-Tene
  • Interview with Reinhard Wiener, German Photographer of the Murder Operation in Liepaja. The interview was given on September 27, 1981, Beit Berl, Yad Vashem Archive
  • Jewish Cemeteries and Monuments in Lithuania (USSR, 1991) Producer: Boris Kaplan
  • Memorial Ceremony in Dzerzhinsk, August 25, 1998
  • The Jewish Cemetery (USSR, 1989) Directed by and courtesy: Rafail Nahmanovich & Yuriy Maryamov, Production Company: Tzentrnauchfilm
  • Journey Through Time (Israel, October 17, 2008) Produced and directed by Mordechai Kirschenbaum. Courtesy Mordechai Kirschenbaum and Channel 10 News
  • The Liquidation of the Lachwa Ghetto: Testimony given by Ivan Zababukha (Israel, 1995) Courtesy Kopel Kolpaniczki
  • Mass Murder Operation of Jews in Liepaja (Latvia, 1941) Yad Vashem, The Visual Center, Bundesarchive – Filmarchive, Berlin
  • Memorial Ceremony, Brailov, Ukraine (Ukraine, 2002) Director: Tatyana Grechanivska, Production Company: Bita Channel. Courtesy Iosif & Maria Lerner
  • Memorial Ceremony for the Martyrs of Lachwa (USSR, 1991) Courtesy the Commemoration & Public Relations Division of Yad Vashem
  • Monument Unveiling in Honor of the Jews of Pushkin (Russia, 1991)
  • Pages of Jewish History (Russia, 2000) Produced and directed by Marina Pavlovskaja Veremeenko, Production Company: TRK Aktzent
  • We Remember Lachwa (Israel, 1994) Director: Chaya Bachar-Yisraeli, Producer: Yitzhak Zonnenschein, Jewish Heritage Unit, IBA. Courtesy IBA film archive, Channel 1
  • Interviews of Zeev Anderman, Isaak Anshin, Alter Baikovich, Igor Barinshtein, Luba Bielas, Riva Bogomolnaya, Mikhail Bronfin, Genya Burmenko, Golda Dubianski, Elizabeth Eizendorf, Motel Endelsman, Khonya Epshteyn, Solomon Feigerson, David Fishman, Abram Fleishman, Raisa Galperina, Basia Ganeles, Boris Gelfand, Galina Gelfer, Elizaveta Gelfond, Semion Gershkovich, Marlene Gold, Grigory Gitman, Sarra Gleikh, Mikhail Graifer, Leonid Gurfinkel, Yakov Izraelit, Bronia Kahane, Roza Karpuch, Marks Khaimovski, Bronya Khalfina, Menachem Krigel, Fanya Kogan, Frida Kogan, Solomon Kupitz, Serafima Kur, Polina Leonova, Klavdiia Lepa, Mikhail Melnik, Boris Mikhlin, Iosif Mirkin, Galina Mirkina, Tatiana Nemizanskaya, Efraim Neuburge, Lev Pevzner, Tatiana Popik, Boris Pukshanskii, Lisa Reiber, Boris Romanov, Nina Romanova, Doba Rozenberg, Kim Rutman, Rachel Schneider, Aleksandr Shmerkin, Moisei Shvartsman, Esya Shor, Alexandr Stasuyk, Vyacheslav Tamarkin, Bina Tenenblat, Ediia Tupika, Arkady Vaispapir, Michail Yablochnik, Emma Zanger, Renia Zaturenskaia, Alla Zaydman and Solomon Zuperman from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education

Archive Sources
We have done our best to identify and contact the original sources of the archival footage appearing in the films on this website. If you have additional information, please contact us at: visual.center@yadvashem.org.il
http://www1.yadvashem.org/new_museum/Visual_Center.html



General Books
  • Bankier, David & Gutman, Israel eds., Nazi Europe and the Final Solution (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2003)
  • Browning, Christopher, The Origins of the Final Solution. The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 - March 1942 (London: Heinemann, 2004)
  • Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities (Pinkas Hakehilot) (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1976-2005) (Hebrew)
  • Gilbert, Martin, The Holocaust: A History of the Jews in Europe During the Second World War (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985)
  • Gutman, Israel, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (New York: Macmillan, 1990)
  • Hilberg, Raul, The Destruction of the European Jews (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961) (definitive edition New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985)
  • Miron, Guy and Shulhani, Shlomit, The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust. (Yad Vashem: Jerusalem, 2009)
  • Memorial books collection, Yad Vashem Library
  • Rhodes, Richard, Masters of Death, The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust (New York: Knopf, 2002)

Books About the Jews of the Former USSR
  • Adamushko, Vladimir, Inna Gerasimova, and Vyacheslav Selemenev, eds., The Executioners Testify: The Annihilation of the Jews on the Occupied Territory of Belarus, 1941-1944, Minsk, 2009 (Russian)
  • Agmon Pinchas and Stepanenko Anatoly, eds., Vinnitsa Region: Shoah and Resistance (Tel Aviv-Kiev, 1994) (Russian)
  • Altman, Ilya, ed., Encyclopedia of the Holocaust on the Territory of the USSR, Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2009 (Russian)
  • Altman, Ilya, Victims of Hatred: Holocaust in the USSR 1941-1945 (Moscow, 2002) (Russian)
  • Altshuler, Mordechai, “Jewish Holocaust Commemoration Activity in the USSR Under Stalin,” in Yad Vashem Studies, (30), Jerusalem, 2002, pp. 271-296
  • Altshuler, Mordechai, “The Unique Features of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union,” in Yaacov Ro'i, ed., Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union (Ilford, Essex: Cass, 1995), pp. 171-188
  • Arad Yitzhak, ed., The Annihilation of the Jews of the USSR During the German Occupation (1941-1944) (Jerusalem, 1991) (Russian)
  • Arad, Yitzhak, History of the Holocaust – The Soviet Union and the Annexed Territories
    (Yad Vashem: Jerusalem, 2004) (Hebrew)
  • Arad, Yitzhak, Krakowski, Shmuel & Spector, Shmuel, eds., The Einsatzgruppen Reports
    (New York: Holocaust Library, 1989)
  • Bachrach, Zwi, ed., Last Letters from Shoah (Jerusalem-New York: Devora Publishing; Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2004)
  • Bartov, Omer, Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford, 2007)
  • Bauer Yehuda, “Nowogródek – The Story of a Shtetl,” in Yad Vashem Studies 35(2), Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 2007
  • Chernoglazova, Raisa, ed., The Tragedy of Byelorussia’s Jews. Collection of materials and documents
    (Minsk, 1997) (Russian)
  • Cholawski, Shalom, The Jews of Byelorussia during World War II  (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998)
  • Dean, Martin, Collaboration in the Holocaust, Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and the Ukraine
    (New York: St. Martins Press, 2000)
  • Dieter, Pohl, “The Murder of Ukraine’s Jews under German Military Administration and in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine,” in Ray Brandon and Wendy Lower, eds., The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimnoy, Memorialization (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), pp. 23-76
  • Dobroszycki, Lucjan & Gurock, Jeffrey S., eds., The Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Studies and Sources on the Destruction of the Jews in the Nazi-Occupied Territories of the USSR, 1941-1945 (Armonk, NY, 1993)
  • Dubson, Vadim, “Ghettos in the Occupied Territiries of the Russian Federation (1941-1942),” in Bulletin of the Jewish University, Moscow-Jerusalem, 3(21), 2000, pp. 157-184 (Russian)
  • Ehrenburg, Ilya & Grossman, Vasily, The Black Book (New York: Holocaust Library, 1981)
  • Eynhorn, Moyshe, “Notitsn vegn medzhibezher geto” (Memoirs from the Medzhibozh Ghetto),
    in Sovetish Heymland (4), 1981(Yiddish)
  • Ezergailis, Andrew, The Holocaust in Latvia 1941-1944: The Missing Center (Riga: The Historical Institute of Latvia; Washington: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1996)
  • Gerlach, Christian,  Kalkulierte Morde, Die deutsche Wirtschafts- und Vernichtungspolitik in Weissrussland 1941 bis 1944 (Hamburg, 1999)
  • Ioffe, Emanuil, Knatko, Galina & Selemenov, Viacheslav, The Holocaust in Byelorussia, 1941-1942 (Minsk, 2002) (Russian)
  • Ivashchenko, Olena, Monuments and Memorial Places of the Holocaust in the Zhitomir Area during the Great Patriotic war (Polissya: Zhitomir, 2008) (Ukrainian).
  • Iwens, Sidney, “How Dark the Heavens” (New York, 1992)
  • Klee, Ernst, Dressen, Willi & Riess, Volker “Those Were the Days”: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of the Perpetrators and Bystanders (London, 1991)
  • Klein, Peter, ed., Die Einsatzgruppen in der besetzten Sowjetunion 1941/42: Die Tätigkeits-und Lageberichte des Chefs der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Haus des Wannsee-Konferenz, 1997)
  • Kolpanitsky, Kopel, Sentenced to Life (London, 2007)
  • Koval, Leonid, The Book of Salvation (Yurmala, 1993) (Russian)
  • Kruglov, Alexandr, “Annihilation of the Jews of the Smolensk and Bryansk Regions, 1941-1943,” in Bulletin of the Jewish University, Moscow-Jerusalem, 3 (7), 1994, pp. 193-220 (Russian)
  • Kruglov, Alexandr, Annihilation of the Jewish population of Ukraine, 1941-1944 (Mogilev-Podolskii, 1997) (Russian)
  • Kruglov, Alexandr, Annihilation of the Jewish population of the Vinnitsa District, 1941-1944
    (Mogilev-Podolskii, 1997) (Russian)
  • Levin, Dov, Baltic Jews under the Soviets, 1940-1946 (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1994)
  • Levin, Judith & Uziel, Daniel, “Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Photos,” in Yad Vashem Studies (26),
    Jerusalem, 1998, pp. 280-293
  • Lubow, George, Escape (Universe Inc: New York, 2004)
  • Nikzentaitis Alvydas, Schreiner Stefan and Staliunas Darius, eds., The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews, (Amsterdam - New York, 2004
  • Reznikov Isaak, Feniks Khmelnik: Memory of the Heart (Moscow, 2003) (Russian)
  • Romanovskii, Daniel, “The number of Jews perished in the industrial cities of Eastern Byelorussia at the beginning of the German Occupation (June-December 1941),” in Bulletin of Jewish University, Moscow-Jerusalem, 22 (2000), pp. 151-172 (Russian)
  • Rubinstein, Joshua & Altman, Ilya, The Unknown Black Book (Bloomington, 2008)
  • Shederovich, Ida & Litin, Alexandr Death of the Settlements in Mogilev (Mogilev, 2005) (Russian)
  • Shederovich, Ida & Litin, Alexandr Death of the Settlements in Mogilev (Mogilev, 2005) (Russian)
  • Smilovitskii, Leonid, The Catastrophe of Byelorussia’s Jews, 1941-1944 (Tel Aviv, 2000) (Russian)
  • Spector, Shmuel, The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews, 1941-1944 (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1990)
  • Stranga, Aivars, “The Holocaust in Occupied Latvia: 1941-1945,” in The Hidden and Forbidden History of Latvia Under Soviet and Nazi Occupations 1940-1991 (Riga: Institute of the History of Latvia, 2005), pp. 161-174
  • Uziel, Daniel, “Wehrmacht Propaganda Troops and the Jews,” in Yad Vashem Studies  (29), Jerusalem, 2001, pp. 27-65
  • Vinnitsa, Gennady, A Word of Memory (Orsha, 1997) (Russian)
  • Vinnitsa, Gennady, Bitterness and Pain (Orsha, 1998) (Russian)
  • Yelisavetskii Ster, Berdichev Tragedy (Kiev, 1991) (Russian)
  • Zabarko, Boris, ed., Holocaust in the Ukraine (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005)

 Video
Mass murder  of Jews in Liepaja, Latvia, 1941
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Mass Murder of Jews in Liepaja, Latvia, 1941
Archival footage of JUDENEXEKUTION IN LIBAU 1941 (Mass Murder of Jews in Liepaja, Latvia, 1941)
Courtesy of Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv/Transit Film GmbH
Interview with Reinhard Wiener, German photographer of the mass murder in Liepaja. The interview was given on September 27, 1981.
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Interview with Reinhard Wiener, German photographer of the mass murder in Liepaja. The interview was given on September 27, 1981.
YVA O.33 1222

Photos
Vinnitsa, Ukraine, A German soldier shooting a Jew atop a mass grave, 1943.


Map
The Routes of the Einsatzgruppen Killing Unit


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