"Shoah"

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The paper relates that "Shoah" consists of many hours of interviews with three categories of characters: survivors, witnesses and perpetrators. The paper explains that, in order to depict the historical reality, the director takes the survivors back to the places where their story happened. The paper relates that there are four places which concerned the director: Chelmno, Treblinka, Auschwitz - Birkenau and Warsaw ghetto. The paper maintains that Lanzmann succeeds in passing down a message about man's capacity for cruelty to his fellow man to the coming generations and in publicizing the Jewish tragedy around the world.

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"Shoah consists of many hours of interviews with three categories of characters: survivors, witnesses and perpetrators. In order to depict the historical reality, the director takes the survivors back to the places where their story happened. He makes them face the places where the terror took place. The particular medium of the documentary film work describes the historical reality of the holocaust through people who lived "shoah" , history is told by the people who survived, witnessed or people who were directly involved in conducting the holocaust."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Shoah, Wickipedia , The free encyclopedia http://wikipedia.org/wicki/Shoah
• Benstein Richard, "An epic film about the greatest evil of modern times" ;New York Times Review , 20 Oct. 1985< http://movies.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review>
• Heilman, Jeremy "Newest Reviews: Shoah (Claude Lanzmann 1985)". 10 Aug. 2003 <http//moviemartyr.com/1985/shoah.htm>

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