Claude Lanzmann's 1985 documentary Shoah arrived in my mailbox on a Saturday and by Monday I had finally finished watching the 550 minute story of the Holocaust, not told through archival material but through the voices of those that lived it -- survivors, former Nazis, historians and a variety of other witnesses. As stories of Jews being led from train cars, to "undressing rooms", to gas chambers and into crematoriums are told, Lanzmann's camera slowly traces the exact locations the story being told took place. Locations such as Treblinka, Auschwitz and Sobib?r. All that's left are fragments of the era gone by and, in some cases, wild rabbits are all that roam the grounds. An eerie calm settles over the landscape and fog in the distance of a well-traveled train track where some of the most deplorable human atrocities ever took place over 40 years earlier. Viewing the documentary now, over 25 years since it was released,...
- 7/15/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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