On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History by Nadine Fresco

Author:Nadine Fresco
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2021-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Yitzhak Arad, ed., The Pictorial History of the Holocaust (New York: Macmillan, 1990).

2. http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org.

3. http://www.ushmm.org. The uncertainty of the rules pertaining to copyright or their application can be quite striking at times, raising moral concerns. The self-attribution of copyright by institutions sometimes creates tensions between them, however temporarily. The right to reproduce these eight photographs was requested of the USHMM on 1 July 2008 for the French edition of this book. The “use agreement” received on the 9th in response to that request was followed by a courteous but seemingly somewhat embarrassed email from the same sender on the 10th, indicating that the photographs were in fact under “exclusive copyright” of the German archives (Bundesarchiv). The USHMM was no longer authorized to give permission for their reproduction. So, requests had to be made to the German archives for permission to reproduce these photos. To my request for clarification regarding the somewhat mysterious events that had arisen between the 9th and 10th of July, I was told by Klaus-Dieter Postupa of the Bundesarchiv’s Central Assistance office, Koblenz, that the USHMM was not allowed to designate these photos “Copyright: Public domain” on its website. That in so doing, the USHMM had “disregarded” its agreement with the Bundesarchiv and was in “breach of the rules.” The museum had been “requested to correct the information.” The USHMM complied, in a quite radical way since the photos themselves disappeared from the public USHMM site.

4. http://www.masada2000.org/holocaust.html. This link is no longer active.

5. On the production and reception of the film, see Sylvie Lindeperg’s “Nuit et brouillard.” Un film dans l’histoire (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2007). I have relied on this work for the facts regarding the presence of this film at Adolf Eichmann’s trial in 1961.

6. Jean Cayrol (1911–2005) was a writer (he received the Renaudot Prize in 1947 for the first volume of his fictional trilogy Je vivrai l’amour des autres) and, beginning in 1949, an editor at Éditions du Seuil. Cayrol had joined the Resistance very early on and was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in March 1943. His first collection of poetry is entitled Poèmes de la nuit et du brouillard (Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1946).

7. The sentence “Those on the right” does not continue. Hence, the ellipsis.

8. Sylvie Lindeperg, for whose assistance I am very grateful, informed me that this photo was found in the archives of the Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center (CDJC) (shelf number CDLX-96) during the preparations for Night and Fog and that, in the film’s montage documentation, it was captioned as follows: “Four naked women appear in the first frame. SS in the distance. FF [fixed frame]. German photos taken in the USSR.”

9. Left aside here are subsequent critiques of this film, such as those developed on the basis of knowledge acquired and reflections written in the intervening time.

10. See Lindeperg, “Nuit et brouillard,” 216. Adolf Eichmann (b. 1906) was sentenced to death for his role in the deportation and extermination of Jews during the war and executed in Jerusalem on 31 May 1962.

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