SHOAH
A nine-hour documentary on the victims, perpetrators and witnesses to the Nazi extermination camps in Poland. Made over a period of ten years, the director Claude Lanzmann filmed interviews with Jewish survivors, former German SS officers and Polish peasants. He revisited Treblinka, Auschwitz, Chelmno, Sobibor and Belzeac. Interviewees include Simon Srebnik, one of only two survivors of the 400,000 Jews at Chelmno, and SS officer Franz Suchomel, who served at Treblinka. The film uses no newsreel footage at all. Broadcast in two parts in Britain, the first half covers the period to 1943, the second 1943-45. The word Shoah is a Hebrew word meaning annihilation.
Cast & credits
Credits
Direction
- Director Claude Lanzmann
Production
- Production Company Historia Films
- Assistance Ministère Français de la Culture
- Production Company Films Aleph
- Production Manager Stella Gregorz-quef
- Production Manager Séverine Olivier-lacamp
- Production administrator Raymonde Badé-mauffroy
- Research assistant Corinna Coulmas
- Research assistant Irène Steinfeldt-levi
- Research assistant Shalmi Bar Mor
Photography
- Photography Dominique Chapuis
- Photography Jimmy Glasberg
- Photography William Lubtchansky
- Assistant Photographer Caroline Champetier
- Assistant Photographer Jean-Yves Escoffier
- Assistant Photographer Slavek Olczyk
- Assistant Photographer Andrès Silvart
Editing
- Editor Ziva Postec
- Editor (one of Treblinka sequences) Anna Ruiz
Sound
- Sound Recording Bernard Aubouy
- Sound recording (Israel) Michel Vionnet
- Sound Re-recording Bernard Aubouy
- Sound Editor Danielle Fillios
- Sound Editor Anne-Marie L'hôte
- Sound Editor Sabine Mamou
Subtitles
- Subtitles Alexander Whitelaw
- Subtitles W. Byron
Consultant
- Interpreter from Polish Barbara Janica
- Interpreter from Hebrew Francine Kaufmann
- Interpreter from Yiddish Mrs. Apfelbaum