Shoah

A film by Claude Lanzmann

When atrocity becomes sanitized as history

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories — survivors, bystanders and perpetrators — Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

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Director

Claude Lanzmann

Producer

Claude Lanzmann

Runtime

9 hours

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Festival & Awards

WINNER—Peabody Award

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Shoah

When atrocity becomes sanitized as history

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