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

Credits

Director

Claude Lanzmann

Distribution Formats

Type

DVD

Format

Region 2 PAL

Price

£49.99

Availability

Sale

Duration/Size

550 minutes

Year

2007

Distributor

 

Available from retail outlets

Distributor (Sale)

Name

Eureka Entertainment

Email

info@eurekavideo.co.uk

Web

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Phone

020 8459 8054

Fax

020 8459 5162

Address

Unit 9, Ironbridge Close
Great Central Way
London
NW10 OUF

Notes

An independent distributor specialising in releasing classic and early/silent films on DVD, including the Masters of Cinema curated collection of classic and world cinema. Sale via retail outlets.