Shoah

Synopsis

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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Cast

Claude Lanzmann

Self - Interviewer

SS

Simon Srebnik

Self

MP

Michael Podchlebnik

Self

MZ

Motke Zaidl

Self

JK

Jan Karski

Self

PB

Paula Biren

Self

AB

Abraham Bomba

Self

ID

Inge Deutschkron

Self

RE

Ruth Elias

Self

RG

Richard Glazar

Self

FM

Filip Müller

Self

RV

Rudolf Vrba

Self

RH

Raul Hilberg

Self

HZ

Hanna Zaïdl

Self