Claude Lanzmann’s epic reshaped how the Holocaust is remembered. He built his film not on archives but on silence – the terrible absence left by the dead
By Tanya Gold
The most celebrated Shoah fictions focus on the rare rescuers, fictional non-Jewish victims or sympathetic perpetrators. But you cannot love Jews if you refuse to understand what happened to them, and why
More than a century after scapegoating Alfred Dreyfus, Paris offers symbolic reparations to a corpse
Israeli director Lior Geller on his new movie The World Will Tremble
By John Nathan
Guillaume Ribot’s film has been culled from unseen footage that Claude Lanzmann’s filmed for his epic documentary, Shoah
By James Mottram
I was in a hospital bed on Holocaust Memorial Day so couldn’t join in any official commemorations. Instead, I talked to my physiotherapst about Jewish loss and it felt meaningful
By Karen E H Skinazi
Gary Sokolov only learnt the full horror of his mother and father’s ordeals by reading their book
By Nicole Lampert
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