Shoah

Synopsis: A distillation of 350 hours of interviews with living ‘witnesses’ to what happened at the extermination camps of Treblinka, Auschwitz, Sobibor, Chelmno and Belzec. The director spent 10 years tracking down and interviewing survivors; he concentrates on the testimony of those who are still living to reveal what happened. One of the only two Jews to survive the murder of 400,000 people at Chelmno describes his feelings on revisiting Poland for the first time; a train driver who ferried victims to the concentration camps is seen making that same journey; a retired Polish barber who cut the hair of those about to enter the gas chambers describes his former work; an SS officer talks about the ‘processing’ of those on their way to the camps.
Language: English
Country: France
Medium: Video
Year of release: 2007
Year of production: 1985
Documentation: Reference: ‘Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust’ by Claude Lanzmann.
Subjects: History
Keywords: concentration camps; genocide; Holocaust; Judaism; Nazi Germany; oral history

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