What did Americans do?
Explore the personal stories of individuals who responded to the Nazi threat in different ways.
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The Legacy of Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann
November 27, 1925, to July 5, 2018
Lanzmann spent 12 years locating and interviewing Holocaust survivors, perpetrators, eyewitnesses, and scholars for his nine-and-a-half-hour film Shoah, released in 1985. Shoah is widely regarded as the seminal film on the subject of the Holocaust.
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