Shoah 1985

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

Cast:

Claude Lanzmann
Self - Interviewer 

Simon Srebnik
Self 

Michael Podchlebnik
Self 

Motke Zaidl
Self 

Jan Karski
Self 

Paula Biren
Self 

• Shoah, Second Era