Shoah (film)

Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film directed by Claude Lanzmann about the Holocaust called the Shoah in Hebrew and French. The film primarily consists of his interviews and visits to German Holocaust sites across Poland, including three extermination camps. It presents testimonies by selected survivors, witnesses, and German perpetrators, often secretly recorded using hidden cameras.

The film is concerned chiefly with four topics Chemno, where mobile gas vans were first used by Germans to exterminate Jews the death camps of Treblinka and AuschwitzBirkenau and the Warsaw Ghetto, with testimonies from survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators.The sections on Treblinka include testimony from Abraham Bomba, who survived as a barber Richard Glazar, an inmate and Franz Suchomel, an SS officer who worked at the camp, who reveals intricate details of the camps gas chamber. Bomba breaks down while describing how a barber friend of his came across his wife and sister while cutting hair outside before the gas chamber. Suchomel states he did not know about extermination at Treblinka until he arrived there. This section includes Henryk Gawkowski, who said he drove one of the transport trains while intoxicated with vodka. Gawkowskis photograph appears on the poster used for the films marketing campaign. ........

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