Shoah: The Complete Text of the Acclaimed Holocaust Film

A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Nazi extermination camps, Shoah (the Hebrew word for "Holocaust") was internationally hailed as a masterpiece upon its release in 1985. Shunning any re-creation, archival footage, or visual documentation of the events, filmmaker Claude Lanzmann relied on the words of witnesses - Jewish, Polish, and German - to describe in ruthless detail the bureaucratic machinery of the Final Solution, so that the remote experiences of the Holocaust became fresh and immediate. This book is the complete text of Lanzmann's film, presenting in an accessible and vivid format the testimony of survivors, participants, witnesses, and scholars.