Shoah. Second era /
Shoah--a Hebrew word variously translated as annihilation, cataclysm, chaos, or catastrophe--approached the tragedy of the Holocaust in a new and novel way: no archival footage, no newsreels, no black and white still photographs. There are instead interviews with ordinary people speaking in ordinary...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | French English German Hebrew Italian Polish Yiddish |
| Language Notes: | In English, French, Polish, German, Hebrew, Yiddish and Italian with optional English closed captioning. Interviewees speak in their own language, while an off screen translator gives Lanzmann a French translation. |
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[Paris] :
Les Films Aleph,
[1985]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Shoah--a Hebrew word variously translated as annihilation, cataclysm, chaos, or catastrophe--approached the tragedy of the Holocaust in a new and novel way: no archival footage, no newsreels, no black and white still photographs. There are instead interviews with ordinary people speaking in ordinary voices of days that had become ordinary to them: Jewish survivors, former Nazis, Polish peasants, American scholars, and others. |
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| Item Description: | Originally produced as a documentary motion picture in 1985. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (4 hr., 53 min.)) : sound, color |
| Playing Time: | 04:53:00 |
| Production Credits: | Film editor, Ziva Postec ; directors of photography, Dominique Chapuis, Jimmy Glasberg, William Lubchansky. |