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Shoah: The Complete Text of the Acclaimed Holocaust Film

Claude Lanzmann

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A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Nazi extermination camps, Shoah (the Hebrew word for "Holocaust") was internationally hailed as a masterpiece upon its release in 1985. Shunning any re-creation, archival footage, or visual documentation of the events, filmmaker Claude Lanzmann relied on the words of witnesses--Jewish, Polish, and German--to describe in ruthless detail the bureaucratic machinery of the Final Solution, so that the remote experiences of the Holocaust became fresh and immediate. This book presents in an accessible and vivid format the testimony of survivors, participants, witnesses, and scholars. This tenth anniversary edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the camps, is newly revised and corrected in order to more accurately present the actual testimony of those interviewed. Shoah is an unparalleled oral history of the Holocaust, an intensely readable journey through the twentieth century's greatest horror.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publish Date: Aug 22nd, 1995
  • Pages: 196
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.94in - 5.26in - 0.45in - 0.47lb
  • EAN: 9780306806650
  • Categories: • Modern - 20th Century - Holocaust• Film - Screenwriting• Jewish - General

About the Author

Claude Lanzmann is one of the premier documentary filmmakers of our time. His most recent work is Tsahal, which focuses on the Israeli army.

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Richard Brody
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Richard Brody is a film critic.

For Holocaust Remembrance Day, a discussion of one scene from Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah and how it turns memory into dramatic action, how it makes words images; with a word about the words "Holocaust" and "Shoah" themselves: https://t.co/CyGsuAztXz

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Ash Jogalekar
@curiouswavefn
2 years

Ash Jogalekar is a scientist and science writer.

Watching Claude Lanzmann's epic 9-hour-long Holocaust documentary "Shoah" again and being constantly struck by how mundane the path to murder and totalitarianism is: ordinary people holding grudges, blaming other people. The concentration camps were not the beginning but the end.

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Philip Patterson
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2 years

Literary Agent at @MarjacqScripts. Member of the AAA.

Over the last two nights I have been watching Claude Lanzmann's Shoah. I haven't watched it in over 30 years, but my god. I have finished the first part and I am steeling myself to watch the rest. A brilliant documentary but I feel hollowed out.

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