Note: since only short clips were shown from some of these videos, they may not be rewound to the beginning. You will have to find what you haven't seen, and fast forward throught what you have already seen.
Please be gentle with the tapes-many people may be viewing them, and I need them to be in good condition for the future.

The following materials are available for viewing in the Kerr Hall upstairs lab:

• Jakob the Liar (1974) [DVD], film by Frank Beyer. This parable about truth and deception is set in an unnamed Polish ghetto during the early 1940s. It is based on an experience from the family of screenwriter Jurek Becker. 100 minutes
• For the Living: The Story of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (1993). We watched the first 20-25 minutes of this 57 minute documentary on Oct. 16.
• The Wannsee Conference (1987), by Heinz Shirk. This 85 minute film uses fictitious dialog to recreate what the infamous Jan. 20, 1942 meeting of Nazi Party officials and Cabinet Undersecretaries in a Berlin villa might have been like. The dialog is packed with lessons about the Holocaust. Some of it is used in the Wannsee diarama at the LA Museum of Tolerance.
  We watched about 25 minutes of the film on Oct. 16, beginning about 7 minutes from the start.
  Another recent film, Conspiracy, is also about this conference.
• Nazi Designers of Death  (ca. 1995), with Robert Jan van Pelt. We watched a short clip (ca. minutes 10-20 I think) about Kurt Prüfer and the crematoria in Auschwitz (-Birkenau) from this NOVA documentary in class on Oct. 17. The rest of the film was screened on Oct. 23.
• Holocaust TV-Miniseries  (1978), by Gerald Green. This 7 ½ hour soap-opera-like portrayal (starring Meryl Streep and Michael Moriarty) maked a major milestone in public awareness of the Holocaust in both the US and Germany. We watched about the first 2 hours of tape 1 on the bus to and from LA, and the last 12 minutes were screened on Oct. 23.
• America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference  (1994). We watched the first ca. 30 minutes of this PBS documentary in class on Oct. 22, when the professor was out for jury duty. The rest was screened on Oct. 23.

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