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'The Recordings: Voices from the Shoah Tapes,' on view at the New York Historical, features listening stations where visitors can hear the testimony of Holocaust survivors, perpetrators and resisters, including Hillel Kook (Peter Bergson), seen in the video talking about his efforts to influence US government officials to save Europe's Jews. (JTA photo)
December 12, 2025, 4:04 am
A timely New York exhibition immerses listeners in voices from the Holocaust
Rare, unheard recordings collected by Claude Lanzmann for his monumental film ‘Shoah’ feature testimonies that still demand to be heard – and now can be, at the New York Historical
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
In this file photo taken on May 18, 2004 Franco-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard attends a press conference for his film "Notre Music" during the 57th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. (BORIS HORVAT / AFP)
September 14, 2022, 2:26 am
A trailblazing filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard was a polarizing figure to Jews offscreen
The French New Wave pioneer who died Tuesday long faced accusations of antisemitism, but while his opposition to Zionism was clear, his views on the Jewish people were more complex
By Andrew Lapin
Ashton Gleckman (courtesy)
May 2, 2020, 4:05 am
Millions watch teen high school dropout’s film on US Holocaust survivors
After interviewing two-dozen survivors, 19-year-old Ashton Gleckman from Indiana created his film ‘We Shall Not Die Now’ — with an assist from Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’
By Matt Lebovic
Claude Lanzmann at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
December 6, 2019, 2:13 am
Claude Lanzmann’s late son’s sperm can’t father child in Israel, court says
European authorities shoot down request by French filmmaker’s widow, who says her child’s final wish before his death was to have children
By Marcy Oster
Claude Lanzmann poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' and the closing ceremony of the 71st international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 19, 2018. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
November 8, 2018, 9:10 pm
Stunning posthumous release from ‘Shoah’ director resonates post-Pittsburgh
Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann died this past July, but a new work, ‘Shoah: Four Sisters,’ compiled from past footage to debut in NY, is chillingly applicable today
By Jordan Hoffman
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (left) and Clara Spera appear in 'RBG' by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, an official selection of the Documentary Premieres program at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo CNN Films)
August 7, 2018, 8:04 pm
Giants grace screen at National Library documentary film fest
Fourth annual Docu.Text starts August 19 with spotlight on Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By Jessica Steinberg
In this file photo taken on February 14, 2013 French documentary filmmaker and producer Claude Lanzmann poses during the 63rd Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin. AFP/GERARD JULIEN)
July 11, 2018, 4:35 am
France plans tribute to late filmmaker Lanzmann
Thursday ceremony for acclaimed director of Holocaust documentary ‘Shoah’ to take place before burial at Montparnasse cemetery in Paris 
By AFP
In this file photograph taken on May 11, 1985, French writer, journalist and movie producer Claude Lanzmann poses in his office in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / DERRICK CEYRAC)
July 5, 2018, 9:38 pm
Long before Israel, Claude Lanzmann stirred Poland’s wrath
The eminent filmmaker, who died Thursday at 92, railed against the ‘Polish lobby’ undercutting his groundbreaking Holocaust work that tarnished the narrative of Polish victimhood
By Marissa Newman
In this photo taken on February 11, 2016 French writer, journalist and movie producer Claude Lanzmann poses in Paris on February 11, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET)
July 5, 2018, 9:21 pm
Israel calls ‘Shoah’ director Lanzmann’s death an ‘enormous loss for humanity’
Yad Vashem says 9-hour movie, which focused on testimonies of survivors, was a ‘tectonic shift in Holocaust cinema’
By AFP
Claude Lanzmann poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' and the closing ceremony of the 71st international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 19, 2018. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
July 5, 2018, 1:21 pm
Claude Lanzmann, acclaimed director of documentary ‘Shoah,’ dies at 92
‘Shoah,’ telling the story of the decimation of European Jewry during World War II, considered most important documentary on Holocaust ever made
By Lori Hinnant
A still from 'Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah' (Courtesy: HBO Documentary Films)
March 30, 2017, 1:11 pm
The pain and defiance of ‘Shoah’ maker Lanzmann
Former French Resistance fighter, 91, speaks of his grief at the death of son from cancer, and his unstoppable motivation
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT and Fiachra GIBBONS
The Kempinski Hotel Bristol in Berlin, Germany (screen capture: YouTube)
August 11, 2016, 4:11 pm
Berlin hotel denies anti-Israel claim by ‘Shoah’ director
Claude Lanzmann says employee told him Jewish state omitted from list of international dialing codes at behest of Arab guests
By AP
Jennifer Jason Leigh speaking at a press conference for “The Hateful Eight” at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, Dec. 14, 2015. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The Weinstein Company, via JTA)
February 27, 2016, 5:21 pm
5 incredible Jewish stories behind this year’s Oscars
From Jennifer Jason Leigh’s ‘Hateful Eight’ comeback to ‘Room’ director Lenny Abrahamson and ‘Son of Saul’ star Geza Rohrig, Sunday’s ceremony is set to be quite a kosher affair
By JTA
A still from 'Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah' (Courtesy: HBO Documentary Films)
February 27, 2016, 3:58 am
Will ‘Lanzmann’ finally win an Academy Award?
An interview with Adam Benzine, the young first-time director whose award-winning take on the famed veteran filmmaker is up for an Oscar on Sunday
By Lisa Klug
Filmmaker Adam Benzine, left, and acclaimed documentarian Claude Lanzmann in 2013. (Jet Black Iris America via JTA)
February 26, 2016, 3:25 am
Oscars feature shorts on Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah,’ Palestinian nuns
Palestinian filmmaker explores humorous clash of Jewish, Arab commitments; second film looks at documenting the Holocaust
By Tom Tugend
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