Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah' Outtakes: Holocaust Rescue and Resistance

As we approach the end of the 'era of the witness', given the passing on of the generation of Holocaust survivors, Claude Lanzmann's archive of 220 hours of footage excluded from his ground—breaking documentary Shoah (1985) offers a remarkable opportunity to encounter previously unseen interviews with survivors and other witnesses, recorded in the late 1970s.

Although the archive is all available freely to view online and includes extra footage of those who appear in Shoah, this book focuse...