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July 13, 2018

Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” Memorialized Its Subject in a Way Nothing Else Could

“The greatest guardian” of Holocaust memory.

On July 5, Claude Lanzmann—whose epic documentary Shoah brought the story of Hitler’s war against the Jews to thousands, if not millions, of viewers—died at the age of ninety-two. Walter Reich reflects on Lanzmann’s contributions, and on years of showing the film to students in a course on the Holocaust:

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July 13, 2018

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