Claude Lanzmann and Paul Holdengräber: Shoah and My Life | 3-21-2012 | LIVE from the NYPL

LIVE from the NYPL | Recorded live at the New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum, on March 21, 2012.
Writer and filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, now 85 years old, will discuss his very first book, The Patagonian Hare, which was published in France in 2009 and recently translated into English. The Patagonian Hare tells Lanzmann's story and the story of France and Europe during the second half of the 20th Century -- from the French resistance movement during World War II to training in Israeli F16 fighter jets in the 1990s, from his friendship with Jean Paul Sartre and love affair with Simone de Beauvoir to the making of his groundbreaking nine-and-a-half-hour long documentary Shoah, in 1985. More than a memoir, The Patagonian Hare tackles questions of survival and courage in man's life and history. Claude Lanzmann will be in conversation with Paul Holdengräber.

[@jude999]

SHOAH is revolutionary film making that had the most profound affect on my own documentaries.

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Been watching a few interviews and I have to say I like the grumpy old man.

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Thank you.

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Lanzmann presented this difficult subject in the most brilliant way by letting those who were there provide first hand accounts from both victims and perpetrators and bystanders

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Lanzmann traced these rare fragile crucial witnesses and captured , presented and preserved these vital testimonies to the destruction of Much of European jewry at a crucial moment before they were lost for good in a way that no book can convey . The victims story is at last told so that it will be preserved forever in our memories and those who tried to deny or cover up this genocide have failed.