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Shoah [videorecording (DVD)] / a New Yorker Films release ; a movie by Claude Lanzmann ; a co-production by Les Films Aleph and Historia Films with the assistance of the French Ministry of Culture.

Shoah (Motion picture)

[Paris] : Les Films Aleph : New York, NY : Distributed by New Yorker Video, ©2003.

4 videodiscs (566 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

plastic

4 3/4 in.

digital

video file

DVD video

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Editor, Ziva Postec, Anna Riuz ; cameramen, Dominique Chapuis, Jimmy Glasberg, William Lubchansky ; interpreters, Barbara Janica (Polish), Francine Kaufmann (Hebrew), Mrs. Apfelbaum (Yiddish) ; subtitles, A. Whitelaw, W. Byron, Claude Lanzmann.

Interviewer, Claude Lanzmann.

DVD.

The number of people that lived through the Second World War and the Holocaust dwindles significantly every day. Shoah--a Hebrew word variously translated as annihilation, cataclysm, chaos, or catastrophe--approached the tragedy of the Holocaust in a new and novel way: no archival footage, no newsreels, no black and white still photographs. There are instead interviews with ordinary people speaking in ordinary voices of days that had become ordinary to them: Jewish survivors, former Nazis, Polish peasants, American scholars, and others. Each person describes details which are woven together to present a Holocaust much larger and much more complicated than a viewer could begin to imagine. It is not a documentary, not journalism, not propaganda, not political. It is an act of witness.

Originally produced as a documentary motion picture in 1985.

Special features: Claude Lanzmann's biography/filmography [text feature].

Editor, Ziva Postec, Anna Riuz ; cameramen, Dominique Chapuis, Jimmy Glasberg, William Lubchansky ; interpreters, Barbara Janica (Polish), Francine Kaufmann (Hebrew), Mrs. Apfelbaum (Yiddish) ; subtitles, A. Whitelaw, W. Byron, Claude Lanzmann.

Interviewer, Claude Lanzmann.

DVD.

In English, French, Polish, German, Hebrew, Yiddish and Italian with optional subtitles in English or French.

Interviewees speak in their own language, while an off screen translator gives Lanzmann a French translation.

First era, part one First era, part two Second era, part one Second era, part two

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.

Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland.

Oral history.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.

Poland -- Ethnic relations.

DVDs.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Historical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Lanzmann, Claude.

Postec, Ziva.

France. Ministère de la culture.

New Yorker Films.

Films Aleph.

Historia Films (France)

New Yorker Video (Firm)

156730317X

9781567303179

717119510343

DVD 51003

1931202