Shoah by Claude Lanzmann
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.
Lanzmann, Claude: - Claude Lanzmann is a French writer and the director of a number of films, including the nine-and-a-half-hour classic Shoah (1985), which was described by The Washington Post as the film event of the century and is regarded internationally as a historical and cinematic breakthrough. Lanzmann is chief editor of Les Temps Modernes, which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
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| ISBN 13 | 9782070403783 |
| ISBN 10 | 2070403785 |
| Title | Shoah |
| Author | Claude Lanzmann |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Editions Larousse |
| Year published | 1997-10-23 |
| Number of pages | 284 |
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