The New York Historical Presents a Powerful New Exhibition, The Recordings: Voices from the ShoahTapes

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On view November 28th, 2025 to March 29th, 2026.
This November, the New York historical presence of powerful
new exhibition The Recordings Voices from the show tapes.
On view November 28th, 2025 to March 29th, 2026.

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An exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin, it features a
special audio installation offering selections from the
recently uncovered archive of show 1985 Claude Landsmann S
groundbreaking documentary aboutthe Holocaust.
Hearing the voices and personal stories of those who survived
the Holocaust will, we hope, provide a vital history lesson

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to a new generation, said DoctorLouise Murray, President and CEO
of the New York Historical. In the context of rising
anti-Semitism today, the recordings offers a powerful
example of how quickly the perspective that Jewish people
and their faith are to be superseded can seep into a
nation as political consciousness then drive

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violence on the world stage. We are grateful to the Jewish
Museum Berlin for partnering with us as we bring the
important early recordings from the show archive to a New York
audience. At the end of 2021, the
Association Claudie T Felix Landsman, ACFL, represented by
Dominique Landsman, donated Landsman S audio archive to the

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JMB, said Hedy Berg, director ofthe Jewish Museum Berlin.
This now forms our Landsman Collection which we have been
working on cataloguing ever since.
Since 2023 the Landsman Collection together with show
was designated part of the WorldS Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.

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The exhibition Claude Landsman The recordings invites visitors
to a special listening experience.
Selected original recordings follow Landsman's research and
provide insight into the multi layered memory of the show in
the 1970's. The recordings Voices from the
Show Tapes is an exhibition of the Jewish Museum, Berlin JMV,

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curated by Thomas Lewinsky and coordinated for the New York
Historical by Valerie Paley, senior vice president, and Sue
Ann Weinberg, director of the Patricia D Klingenstein Library,
and curatorial scholar Karen BenHoran.
The installation presence for the first time.
Selections from the audio archive of Show 1985, the

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landmark documentary by French journalist and filmmaker Claude
Landsman, 1925 to 2018. Together with the film, this
archive was added to UNESCO as Memory of the World Register in
2023. The larger collection comprises
152 previously unknown cassette tapes documenting conversations

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Landsman and his assistants heldthroughout the 1970s during the
years long research process thatpreceded filming.
The recordings capture preliminary interviews with
survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders of the Holocaust,
offering rare insight into the genesis of show while also
preserving A remarkable collection of non standardized

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eyewitness testimony. Presented on the centenary of
Landsman S birth, the installation underscores the
enduring power of memory, testimony and the preservation
of voices from history. The recordings are part of the
JMB collection and will be fullyaccessible online by 2027.

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Support Support for the recordings voices from the show
tapes at the New York Historicalis provided by the David Berg
Foundation, Edith Gladstein, Susan and Roger Hertig, Leah and
Michael Weisberg, Leslie Himmel and Alan Schuch, and Barbara and
David Zilajnik. Support for Claude Landsmann The

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recordings is provided by the German Foreign Office and the
Alfred Landecker Foundation. The JMB is subsidized by the
Minister of State for Culture and the Media.
Exhibitions at the New York Historical are made possible by
Doctor Agnes Hsu Tang and Oscar Tang.
The Saunders Trust for American History, the Evelyn and Seymour

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Newman Fund, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
in partnership with the City Council and the New York State
Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the
Governor and the New York State Legislature.
WNET is the media sponsor. About the New York Historical
New York S 1st Museum The New York Historical is a leading

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cultural institution covering over 400 years of American
history. Our offering spent
groundbreaking exhibitions, peerless collections of art,
documents and artifacts, acclaimed educational programs
for teachers and students nationwide, and thought
provoking conversations among leading scholars, journalists,

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and thinkers about the past, present, and future of the
American experiment. The New York Historical is a
Museum of museums and a collection of collections.
We are home to the Patricia D Klingenstein Library, the Center
for Women S History, the Demented Children S History
Museum, and the Future American LGBTQ Plus Museum.

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We elevate the perspectives and scholarship that define the
United States Democratic heritage and challenge us all to
shape our ongoing history for the better.
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