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Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film about the Holocaust (known as "Shoah" in Hebrew), directed by Claude Lanzmann. Over nine hours long and 11 years in the making, the film presents Lanzmann's interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators during visits to German Holocaust sites across Poland, including extermination camps. Released in Paris in April 1985, Shoah won critical acclaim and several prominent awards, including the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary. Simone de Beauvoir hailed it as a "sheer masterpiece", while documentary maker Marcel Ophüls (who would later win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie three years later) called it "the greatest documentary about contemporary history ever made". The film was not well received in Poland; the Polish government argued that it accused Poland of "complicity in Nazi genocide". Shoah premiered in New York at the Cinema Studio in October 1985 and was broadcast in the United States by PBS over four nights in 1987. Synopsis

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Notable quotes

“They will never forgive us for the evil they've done us.”
— Welcome in Vienna (1986 film), written by Axel Corti and Georg Stefan Troller, as quoted in Marceline Loridan-Ivens, But You Did Not Come Back (London: Faber & Faber, 2017), p. 98
“The Nazi death machine worked economically, scientifically and euphemistically. In a word, it was very, very modern.”
— Niall Ferguson, The War of the Worlds (Penguin, 2006), p. 510
“Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution to the Jewish Question)”
— Reinhard Heydrich, follow-up letter to the German diplomat Martin Luther asking for administrative assistance in the implementation of the "Final Solution", i.e. the Holocaust (26 February 1942); Heydrich had used similar language in a speech at the Wannsee Conference, Berlin (20 January 1942), as quoted in Arno J. Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? (1990), p. 304
“Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people.”
— Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
“What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life — that is what is abnormal.”
— Elie Wiesel, after being asked "What does it take to be normal again, after having your humanity stripped away by the Nazis?" in an interview in O: The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)
“The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened... You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed. Race hatred, violence, idolatries—they still flourish.”
— Elie Wiesel, as quoted in "Will Hatred Ever End?", The Watchtower (15 June 1995)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“They will never forgive us for the evil they've done us.”
— Welcome in Vienna (1986 film), written by Axel Corti and Georg Stefan Troller, as quoted in Marceline Loridan-Ivens, But You Did Not Come Back (London: Faber & Faber, 2017), p. 98
“The Nazi death machine worked economically, scientifically and euphemistically. In a word, it was very, very modern.”
— Niall Ferguson, The War of the Worlds (Penguin, 2006), p. 510
“Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution to the Jewish Question)”
— Reinhard Heydrich, follow-up letter to the German diplomat Martin Luther asking for administrative assistance in the implementation of the "Final Solution", i.e. the Holocaust (26 February 1942); Heydrich had used similar language in a speech at the Wannsee Conference, Berlin (20 January 1942), as quoted in Arno J. Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? (1990), p. 304
“Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people.”
— Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
“What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life — that is what is abnormal.”
— Elie Wiesel, after being asked "What does it take to be normal again, after having your humanity stripped away by the Nazis?" in an interview in O: The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)
“The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened... You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed. Race hatred, violence, idolatries—they still flourish.”
— Elie Wiesel, as quoted in "Will Hatred Ever End?", The Watchtower (15 June 1995)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film about the Holocaust (known as "Shoah" in Hebrew), directed by Claude Lanzmann. Over nine hours long and 11 years in the making, the film presents Lanzmann's interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators during visits to German Holocaust sites across Poland, including extermination camps. Released in Paris in April 1985, Shoah won critical acclaim and several prominent awards, including the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary. Simone de Beauvoir hailed it as a "sheer masterpiece", while documentary maker Marcel Ophüls (who would later win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie three years later) called it "the greatest documentary about contemporary history ever made". The film was not well received in Poland; the Polish government argued that it accused Poland of "complicity in Nazi genocide". Shoah premiered in New York at the Cinema Studio in October 1985 and was broadcast in the United States by PBS over four nights in 1987. Synopsis

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film about the Holocaust (known as "Shoah" in Hebrew), directed by Claude Lanzmann. Over nine hours long and 11 years in the making, the film presents Lanzmann's interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators during visits to German Holocaust sites across Poland, including extermination camps.

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