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Shoah : an oral history of the Holocaust : the complete text of the film

Title

Shoah : an oral history of the Holocaust : the complete text of the film / Claude Lanzmann ; preface by Simone de Beauvoir ; [English subtitles of the film by A. Whitelaw and W. Byron].

Author

Lanzmann, Claude

Publication

New York : Pantheon Books, [1985]
©1985

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	D810.J4 L275513 1985	Off-site

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Additional Authors

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986

Description

xii, 200 pages : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm

Summary

The complete text of Claude Lanzmann's film "Shoah". This nine-and-a-half-hour film was the result of years of research and the result is an oral history of the Holocaust that brings together a full range of witnesses: the SS officers who served in the death camps; the Polish villagers who tilled their fields within yards of the crematoriums; the Germans who resettled occupied Poland, moving into the houses whose Jewish owners had been sent to their death; the state employees who sold Jews half-fare excursion tickets to the camps- one way; and others. Then there are the survivors themselves: a Polish barber who cut the hair of women he knew were to die in the next few minutes; a thirteen-year-old boy who was to work in the death camp's "special squad"; the Pole who was taken into the Warsaw ghetto so that he could report to the outside world what he had seen; a woman who lived in hiding in Berlin for most of the war, in anguish at the fate of her people and her own escape from it. The film shows no archival footage, it is through the words themselves that the imagination recreated the world described in these words- a way of getting at the truth that is far more shocking than the depiction of actual images. Shoah is unforgettable, and it is destined to become a landmark of film and history. -- Publisher description.

Uniform Title

Shoah. English
Shoah (Motion picture)

Alternative Title

Shoah.

Subject

Genre/Form

Oral history.
oral histories (literary works)
Oral histories
Personal narratives
Oral histories.
Histoires orales.

Note

Translated from the French.

ISBN

0394551427
9780394551425
0394743296
9780394743295
0888302932
9780888302939

LCCN

85016760

OCLC

ocm12311966
12311966
SCSB-9423488

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library