Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection

Film Collection | Accession Number: 1996.166

Collection Summary: Claude Lanzmann spent twelve years locating and interviewing survivors, perpetrators, eyewitnesses, and scholars for the nine-and-a-half-hour film SHOAH released in 1985. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the archive of SHOAH outtakes from Mr. Lanzmann on October 11, 1996, and have since been carrying out the painstaking work necessary to reconstruct and preserve the films, which consist of 185 hours of interview outtakes and 35 hours of location filming. The collection is jointly owned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem. SHOAH is widely regarded as the seminal film on the subject of the Holocaust. It weaves together extraordinary testimonies to describe the step-by-step machinery implemented to destroy European Jewry. Critics call it “a sheer masterpiece” and a “monument against forgetting.”
Credit: Created by Claude Lanzmann during the filming of "Shoah," used by permission of USHMM and Yad Vashem

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Film Source: Claude Lanzmann
Date: Event: 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Winter 1978-1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September or October 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: November 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: February 1976
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1978 October
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: October 10-11, 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: February 1976
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Winter 1978-1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Spring 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: March/April 1979 (Pologne II)
Production: 1985
Date: Event: November 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: November 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September 27-28, 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Summer 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: April-May 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: November 15?, 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: November 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September or October 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September or October 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September 1978 (Poland) and Fall 1979 (Israel)
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Summer 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: May 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Late Spring or Early Summer 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Late Spring 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1978-1981 (Tournage en Allemagne)
Production: 1985
Date: Event: October 11, 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1978-1981 (Tournage en Pologne)
Production: 1985
Date: Event: July 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Summer 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1978-1981
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Summer 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: July 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: March/April 1979 (Pologne II)
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September or October 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: August 1978? Winter 1978/1979?
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September or October 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: November 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1978-1981
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Late Spring or Early Summer 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: January 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: March 1976
Production: 1985
Date: Event: November 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: October 4-6, 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September 18-19, 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: November 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: November 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Summer 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1979 April 19
Production: 1985
Date: Event: March/April 1979 (Pologne II)
Production: 1985
Date: Event: November 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: March/April 1979 (Pologne II)
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1983 May 19
Production: 1985
Date: Event: March/April 1979 (Pologne II)
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1979 February
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Winter 1978-1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Winter 1978-1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1978-1981
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1978-1981
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1978-1981
Production: 1985
Date: Event: March/April 1979 (Pologne II)
Production: 1985
Date: Event: June 1978 to March 1979?
Production: 1985
Date: Event: May or September 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September or October 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: December 1978
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September or October 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: September or October 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: October 12, 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: July 5, 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1978-1981
Production: 1985
Date: Event: May 1983
Production: 1985
Date: Event: July 1978 and 1981
Production: 1985
Date: Event: March/April 1979 (Pologne II)
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1978 September
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Spring 1979
Date: Event: Spring 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: February 3-10, 1975
Production: 1985
Date: Production:
Date: Event: Spring 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: Spring or Summer 1979
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1979-1981
Production: 1985
Date: Event: 1979-1981
Production: 1985
Date: Production: 1985
Date: Production: 1985
Date: Production: 1985
Event: March/April 1979 (Pologne II)
Date: inclusive: 1975-1983
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