(Shoah: The Unseen Interviews)

Content: This film, produced by the Museum’s Spielberg Film Archive staff, features 55 minutes of previously unseen interviews from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection. SHOAH: The Unseen Interviews includes the testimony of Abraham Bomba, a barber in the Treblinka killing center, who escaped, was smuggled back into the ghetto, and tried to warn friends, who refused to believe what was happening; details of American responses to the Holocaust from Peter Bergson, who tried to rally American Jews and the US government to act sooner to save the Jews in Europe; and Ruth Elias’s harrowing tale of survival in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

55 minutes

Year:

2011

Directors:

Claude Lanzmann

Production companies:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Actors:

Self - Interviewer

Self

Self

Self

Crews:

Director