Claude Lanzmann
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Claude Lanzmann is a french philosopher,professor and filmmaker. He is most famous of his work of filmmaking.
Life and Work
Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris and attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His jewish family went into hiding during World War II, in this period he joined the french resistance at age 18 and fought in the region Auvergne. After the second world war he became politcally interested and opposed the French occupation of Algeria. Together with Jean-Paul Sartre he became interested in the Sovjet-Union and its communism and traveled 4 years in this country. His filmwork was considered often jewish themes or mentioned the second world war. His first work explained the current life in the state Israel, 25 years after its creation. His most famous work was the documentary Shoah(1985), which is a oral history of the Holocaust. Later work is mentionded below:
- Tsahal(1994)
- A Visitor from the Living
- Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m (2001)
- The Karski Report (2010)
Written work was created by his journal Les Temps Modernes, which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Additional work was Shoah: an oral history of the Holocaust and his memoirs 'Le lièvre de Patagonie'. On July 14 2011 he received the Legion of Honor.
References
- Rosenbaum, Ron (1999). Claude Lanzmann and the War Against the Question Why. Explaining Hitler: The search of the Origins of His Evil.
- Claude Lanzmann profile at European Graduate School
