{"id":29488,"date":"2023-10-29T21:55:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T04:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29488"},"modified":"2023-10-29T21:55:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T04:55:48","slug":"shoah-1985-a-documentary-film-on-the-holocaust-by-claude-lanzmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/shoah-1985-a-documentary-film-on-the-holocaust-by-claude-lanzmann\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOAH (1985) \u2013 A DOCUMENTARY FILM ON THE HOLOCAUST \u2013 BY CLAUDE LANZMANN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SHOAH (1985) - A Documentary film on the Holocaust - by Claude Lanzmann || English Subtitled\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FirfB4jSK8Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@mastersofcinema123\">Masters of Cinema<\/a>&nbsp;Dec 30, 2022&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/holocaustsurvivor\">Claude<\/a>&nbsp;Lanzmann directed this 9 and 1\/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since they only agreed to be interviewed by audio). The past is never past; in bringing the Holocaust to life in his towering nine-and-a-half-hour masterpiece, director Claude Lanzmann would stick solely to the present. Shoah is composed of the reflections of Polish survivors, bystanders and, most uneasily, the perpetrators. The memories become living flesh, and an essential part of documentary filmmaking finds its apotheosis: the act of testifying. Lanzmann\u2019s nine-hour documentary meditation on the Holocaust is a distillation of 350 hours of interviews with living \u2018witnesses\u2019 to what happened at the extermination camps of Treblinka, Auschwitz, Sobibor, Chelmno and Belzec. Feeling that the familiar newsreel images have lost their power to shock, Lanzmann concentrates instead on the testimony of those survivors who are \u2018not reliving\u2019 but \u2018still living\u2019 what happened, and on \u2018the bureaucracy of death\u2019. One of the two Jews to survive the murder of 400,000 men, women and children at the Chelmno death camp 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 to \u2018the end of the line\u2019 again and again; 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 \u2018processing\u2019 of those on their way to the concentration camps; a railway official discusses the difficulties associated with transporting so many Jews to their deaths. The same questions are repeated like an insistent refrain, the effect is relentless and cumulative. One word of caution as you watch the witnesses giving testimony; bear in mind Schiller\u2019s observation that \u2018individual testimony has a specific place in history but doesn\u2019t, alone, add up to it\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masters of Cinema&nbsp;Dec 30, 2022&nbsp;Claude&nbsp;Lanzmann directed this 9 and 1\/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since they only agreed to be interviewed by audio). The past is never past; in&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/shoah-1985-a-documentary-film-on-the-holocaust-by-claude-lanzmann\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29490,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29488\/revisions\/29490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}