Israel calls ‘Shoah’ director Lanzmann’s death ‘enormous loss for humanity’

5 July 2018, 8:49 pm

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The death on Thursday of Claude Lanzmann, director of the landmark Holocaust documentary “Shoah,” represents an “enormous loss for humanity,” Israel’s foreign ministry says.

“Claude Lanzmann’s death constitutes an enormous loss for humanity and especially for the Jewish people,” ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon tells AFP.

Lanzmann had given a voice to “millions of Jews exterminated by the Nazis and allowed the world to understand the immensity of the tragedy,” he says.

The French filmmaker and writer was best known for “Shoah,” a more than nine-hour documentary considered by many the most haunting film ever made about the murder of six million Jews during World War II.

Lanzmann died at the age of 92 at his home in Paris.

— AFP